Gas Fireplace Repair Montclair NJ

Montclair has some of the most interesting housing stock in North Jersey, and some of the most demanding. The Victorians and the early twentieth century houses were built when a fireplace in every principal room was ordinary, so it is not unusual to find three or four in a single house, all original masonry, most of them converted to gas at some point in the last forty years.

That is where the work is. Conversions done well last a long time. Conversions done quickly, by someone who treated a hundred year old flue as though it were new, do not. We see key valves that have seized because they were never turned between winters, log sets arranged in a way that starves the burner, and glass that has not come off since it went on.

The hill matters too. Houses on the ridge catch more wind than the ones below, and a flue that draws fine in October can behave differently in January. If a unit only misbehaves on the coldest, windiest nights, that is worth mentioning when you call, because it narrows things down considerably.