Monroe LA Roof Pros provides professional chimney flashing in Monroe, LA for residential and commercial properties across the Ouachita delta. If one page on this site earns its keep it is this one, because a Monroe chimney is a separate building standing inside your house and almost nobody treats it that way. That single fact explains most chimney leaks in this town.
Look at how it was built. The chimney carries real weight, so it got its own footing, poured or laid independently of the house foundation and usually deeper. The house sits on piers or a shallow slab. Both are in the same Perry clay, but a deep mass footing and a shallow pier do not answer a wet winter on the same schedule or by the same amount.
Over a season the chimney and the roof around it move relative to one another. Every year, in both directions. That is why caulk fails here so reliably. Sealant across the chimney-to-roof junction is being asked to act as a structural bridge between two things deliberately going different ways, and it tears within about two seasons. Two seasons is the usual life of a caulk repair here.
The flash-band and tar repairs we scrape off older chimneys are usually the third or fourth attempt at the same wrong idea. Done properly the detail is two independent pieces. Step flashing interleaved course by course, a single piece to each course, with its fasteners in the deck and nowhere else. Each attempt buries the last one, and all of them have to come off before a proper detail can go on.
Then counterflashing cut into a raked mortar joint on the masonry, fastened to the masonry only, lapping down over the step flashing by three inches or more and touching it nowhere. The lap does the waterproofing and the free space behind it is the movement joint. The two halves slide past each other all year and the ceiling stays dry. No fastener passes through both halves at any point.
Stacks over thirty inches across need a saddle behind them, framed and flashed, so runoff and pine litter split around the brick rather than piling against it and working into the mortar. The crown gets looked at on the same trip, since a crack up there admits water from the top down. If we find an unlined flue on a fireplace you use, we will tell you to get a sweep out.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — two-piece counterflashing lapped free of the step metal, hemmed W-valley metal in 26-gauge steel, concealed expansion clips on standing seam runs past forty feet, heavy-gauge lead pipe collars in place of molded rubber boots, re-sheathing in half-inch plywood over gapped one-by-six boards, raked mortar reglets cut for masonry counterflashing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Monroe and nearby communities including West Monroe, Claiborne, Sterlington, Richwood.
What We Handle
Everything our chimney flashing in Monroe covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of chimney flashing work in Monroe, LA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- chimney flashing repair Monroe LA
- chimney leak roof
- step flashing chimney
- counterflashing reglet
- chimney cricket saddle
- chimney crown repair
- masonry chimney repointing
- chimney flashing replacement cost
- chimney base leak
- lead flashing chimney
- chimney chase cover
- unlined chimney inspection
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Monroe 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 two-piece counterflashing lapped free of the step metal, hemmed W-valley metal in 26-gauge steel, concealed expansion clips on standing seam runs past forty feet, heavy-gauge lead pipe collars in place of molded rubber boots, 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 Monroe 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 the Ouachita delta 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 Monroe
Monroe LA Roof Pros covers Monroe and the surrounding communities of the Ouachita delta. 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 West Monroe, LA — Ouachita Parish, population 13,103
- Chimney Flashing in Claiborne, LA — Ouachita Parish, population 12,631
- Chimney Flashing in Sterlington, LA — Ouachita Parish, population 1,980
- Chimney Flashing in Richwood, LA — Ouachita Parish, population 3,881
- Chimney Flashing in Swartz, LA — Ouachita Parish, population 4,354
- Chimney Flashing in Brownsville, LA — Ouachita Parish, population 4,353
Start on the Monroe LA Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Monroe Chooses Monroe LA Roof Pros
- ✓We measure the roof planes for square before quoting a covering, because on this ground an out-of-square frame rules some products out and nobody finds that after installation.
- ✓Estimates separate the shingle package, the re-sheathing and the flashing metal into three prices, so you can see which line is optional and which one we would never let you skip.
- ✓Counterflashing goes on as a free-floating second piece lapped over the step metal, never caulked to both surfaces, because the chimney and the house sit on footings that move apart.
- ✓Downspout discharge is specified as foundation work, carried eight to ten feet clear of the wall and handled identically at all four corners rather than wherever it was easiest to drop.
The standards behind chimney flashing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The chimney flashing work we do in Monroe 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 Monroe 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 Monroe, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.