Birmingham Roof Pros provides professional chimney flashing & stack work in Birmingham, AL for residential and commercial properties across Jefferson County and the Birmingham district. This is the page the rest of the site reasons from. Birmingham was built to burn coal and the houses burned it too. What that left is a metro full of tall brick stacks that stopped working when the gas lines went in.
The first question is not how to flash it. It is whether it should still be there. We check what is connected: an open fireplace you actually use, a gas appliance still venting, or nothing at all. On a large share of the houses we look at the answer is nothing, and that opens an option most roofers never mention.
Taking a dead stack down below the deck, framing the opening, decking it in kind and shingling over it usually costs less than rebuilding the top section and reflashing it. It removes the failure point permanently rather than resetting its clock. If you want to keep the chimney for the look of the street we will quote the rebuild instead, because it is your house and both answers are legitimate.
Nothing comes down before the fuel question is settled. If a furnace, a boiler or a gas water heater still vents into that flue, a licensed mechanical contractor re-vents the appliance first and we work from his sign-off. We would rather lose a week of schedule than be the reason a house has a combustion problem. Where the stack stays, it gets done properly. Top courses rebuilt in brick matched from salvage where it shows.
Mortar is a type N specified softer than the brick, so the joint fails before the unit does. A poured crown, reinforced, overhanging the brick on all four sides with a drip kerf cut underneath. A bond break so the crown can move without cracking against the flue. A rain cap on every flue. Joints that have leached get repointed wherever the brick itself is still sound.
Then the metal, in two pieces. A base flashing stepped into each shingle course and turned up the brick. A separate counterflashing cut into a raked bed joint, folded and locked over the base with a hem. Sealant fills the reglet; it is never the waterproofing. Any stack wider than thirty inches across the slope gets a framed and flashed cricket on its uphill side.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — two-piece counterflashing cut into a raked bed joint, a poured chimney crown with an overhang and a drip kerf, a framed cricket above stacks wider than thirty inches, self-adhered flashing membrane turned up the brick face, sheet-metal thimble covers sealed at abandoned flue openings, corbelled brick stacks standing proud of the ridge — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Birmingham and nearby communities including Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, Homewood.
What We Handle
Everything our chimney flashing & stack work in Birmingham covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of chimney flashing & stack work work in Birmingham, AL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Birmingham services.
Materials, equipment and how we do chimney flashing & stack work
The difference between chimney flashing & stack work that lasts and chimney flashing & stack work that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with two-piece counterflashing cut into a raked bed joint, a poured chimney crown with an overhang and a drip kerf, a framed cricket above stacks wider than thirty inches, self-adhered flashing membrane turned up the brick face, 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 Birmingham 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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham district 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 & stack work outside Birmingham
Birmingham Roof Pros covers Birmingham and the surrounding communities of Jefferson County and the Birmingham district. 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 & Stack Work in Hoover, AL — Jefferson and Shelby counties, population 92,606
- Chimney Flashing & Stack Work in Vestavia Hills, AL — Jefferson County, population 39,102
- Chimney Flashing & Stack Work in Alabaster, AL — Shelby County, population 33,284
- Chimney Flashing & Stack Work in Homewood, AL — Jefferson County, population 26,414
- Chimney Flashing & Stack Work in Trussville, AL — Jefferson and St. Clair counties, population 26,123
- Chimney Flashing & Stack Work in Bessemer, AL — Jefferson County, population 26,019
Start on the Birmingham Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Birmingham Chooses Birmingham Roof Pros
- ✓We settle the chimney before we price the covering, because on a pre-war Birmingham house that is the item that moves the number
- ✓Every dead flue gets three priced options — rebuild and recrown, cap and keep, or remove below the deck — and we say which we would choose
- ✓Nothing comes down until the fuel question is answered in writing, and a live appliance is re-vented by a licensed mechanical contractor first
- ✓Flashing is two pieces of fabricated metal cut into a raked bed joint, never one piece bedded in sealant
The standards behind chimney flashing & stack work
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The chimney flashing & stack work work we do in Birmingham 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 & stack work project in Birmingham 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 & stack work free estimate in Birmingham, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.