Lacey Roof Pros provides professional chimney flashing in Lacey, WA for residential and commercial properties across north Thurston County. Chimneys account for more leaks than any other single detail on a Lacey roof, and the reason is historical. Many houses here went up in the 1970s and 1980s with a masonry chimney for a wood stove, and most of those flues are long disused.
That fact opens an option most roofers never raise. If the flue is genuinely abandoned, if there is no appliance connected and no plan to connect one, the cheapest permanent repair is frequently to remove the stack down below the roofline, frame and sheathe the opening, and shingle straight across it. No flashing means no flashing left to fail, and the cost is often comparable to doing the counterflashing properly.
We raise that first because the alternative is real work. Correct chimney flashing is a two-part assembly: step flashing woven in course by course, plus counterflashing set into a reglet saw-cut through a mortar joint and then sealed. What turns up instead, over and over again, is one length of metal caulked flat onto the brick face, a detail whose service life is roughly five years.
Any stack broader than roughly thirty inches across its uphill face wants a cricket framed behind it. Without one the flow from above splits around the masonry and unloads into the two upper corners, which is precisely where the rot turns up. A cricket is framing and sheet metal work rather than roofing proper. It costs little while the slope above is open, and a great deal to retrofit later.
Masonry itself needs a mason. Spalled brick, a failed crown or open mortar joints will keep a chimney wet no matter how good the flashing below them is, and water getting into a stack from above prints a ceiling stain indistinguishable from a roof leak. We say so plainly, and we would sooner hand you a mason's name than sell you flashing that cannot solve the problem.
If the appliance is still in use, the chimney sweep gets to inspect before we close anything up. Flashing work puts our hands on the one part of the assembly they cannot reach from below, and coordinating the two visits costs nothing at all when it is planned in advance and a great deal of money when it is not. We are happy to make that call ourselves.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — downspout infiltration trench sized from the roof area draining into it, washed drain rock jacketed in geotextile under six inches of compacted backfill, a rodding cleanout tee set where the leader meets the buried lateral, fluoropolymer factory finish over Galvalume-coated steel panel, the granule wedge that collects at the bottom of a downspout run, lead-free two-piece pipe flashing with a friction collar — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Lacey and nearby communities including Tumwater, Yelm, Tenino, Rainier.
What We Handle
Everything our chimney flashing in Lacey covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of chimney flashing work in Lacey, WA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- chimney flashing repair lacey wa
- chimney leak lacey
- chimney counterflashing thurston county
- chimney cricket installation lacey
- chimney flashing replacement lacey wa
- leaking chimney repair tumwater
- chimney removal below roofline lacey
- masonry chimney flashing lacey wa
- chimney chase cap lacey
- step flashing repair lacey wa
- wood stove chimney flashing north thurston
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Lacey services.
Materials, equipment and how we do chimney flashing
The difference between chimney flashing that lasts and chimney flashing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with downspout infiltration trench sized from the roof area draining into it, washed drain rock jacketed in geotextile under six inches of compacted backfill, a rodding cleanout tee set where the leader meets the buried lateral, fluoropolymer factory finish over Galvalume-coated steel panel, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Lacey job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in north Thurston County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do chimney flashing outside Lacey
Lacey Roof Pros covers Lacey and the surrounding communities of north Thurston County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Chimney Flashing in Tumwater, WA — Thurston County, population 25,350
- Chimney Flashing in Yelm, WA — Thurston County, population 10,617
- Chimney Flashing in Tenino, WA — Thurston County, population 1,870
- Chimney Flashing in Rainier, WA — Thurston County, population 2,369
- Chimney Flashing in Bucoda, WA — Thurston County, population 600
- Chimney Flashing in Tanglewilde, WA — Thurston County, population 6,265
Start on the Lacey Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Lacey Chooses Lacey Roof Pros
- ✓We follow every downspout to where it actually ends before quoting anything, because in this city the last stretch of the system is buried and nobody has looked at it since the house was framed.
- ✓We will not hang zinc strips at your ridge or specify bare copper or uncoated zinc, because everything shedding off a Lacey roof goes into the ground the city's wells draw from.
- ✓We do not sell coatings for residential shingle roofs. If you have been quoted one, ask the salesman what the film does that a new field of shingles would not do better and longer.
- ✓We ask you to open the crawlspace hatch before we set a ladder in winter. A fair number of the January ceiling stains we get called about begin under the floor rather than above the drywall.
The standards behind chimney flashing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The chimney flashing work we do in Lacey follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every chimney flashing project in Lacey gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free chimney flashing free estimate in Lacey, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.