The chimney check to do before the first South Bay rain
Do it in October, from the living room and the sidewalk. More than 90 percent of Los Angeles rain falls between November and April. So a South Bay chimney has spent six dry months opening up small cracks, and the first real storm tests all of them on the same night. Twenty minutes with a […]
Why chimney caps rust out faster in the South Bay
Salt air in the beach cities eats galvanised caps far faster than inland air. What it does to the metal, how to spot a failing cap from the sidewalk, and which caps hold up from El Segundo to the peninsula.