Lomita Chimneys, Checked and Fixed by Hand

How we work a chimney in Lomita

Lomita is where Harris works from, so a call here usually means a short drive and a ladder off the truck on the first visit. Plenty of houses along Narbonne Avenue and the side streets off Pacific Coast Highway have a single brick stack that has gone a long while without a brush. We sweep it by hand, then climb up and look at the crown and cap before anyone talks about repairs. Lomita sits a few miles inland of the water, so morning damp reaches it but salt does less damage than on the beach side. What we find more often is a cracked crown wash and an open flue full of leaves and nests, and both are jobs our own hands close out on the next trip up.