Scranton Roof Pros provides professional chimney flashing in Scranton, PA for residential and commercial properties across the Lackawanna Valley. Half the chimneys we are asked to reflash in Scranton should not be reflashed. They are abandoned coal flues on houses that stopped burning anthracite two generations ago, still standing through the roof, still leaking, and still costing money every time somebody goes up there with a caulk gun.
These stacks were built for a fuel nobody uses now. Wide unlined masonry flues sized for a coal stove or a coal furnace, drawing sulfur-laden flue gas for decades, with mortar that has been quietly eaten from the inside. The brick above the roof line then takes the full weather load with nothing warm running through it to dry it out.
So the first question is whether anything is still connected to it. If the flue serves nothing at all, the honest answer is usually to take the stack down below the roof line, frame and sheathe across the opening and be finished permanently. That ends the leak, the flashing, the pointing and the yearly argument in one afternoon. We will put both options in front of you with numbers on each.
Where a chimney is live we build the joint the way it was meant to be built. Side flashings shingled in one piece per course on each face and tucked beneath the covering, a separate cover flashing let into a cut in the masonry above them rather than caulked onto brick, and a saddle behind any stack wide enough to hold water and leaves. What we usually find is one smeared mass of mastic instead.
That mass is the reason people are on their third repair. It works for two winters, cracks, and then hides the failure underneath a black stripe nobody can inspect or photograph. On an old anthracite-era stack it also traps water against brick that is already soft, so the repair accelerates the thing it was meant to stop. By then the brick has taken three more winters of the same treatment.
And we say when to stop spending altogether. If the stack is leaning, pulling away from the wall, or opening a gap at the roof line that closes again in a different season, do not put money into flashing or pointing yet. That is an engineer's question about the building, and repairing the symptom first makes the underlying report harder to write and harder to rely on.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a DEP mine viewer result recorded with the map sheet number, square-edge board sheathing gauged for nail withdrawal before tear-off, SBS-modified laminated shingles chosen for cold-weather flexibility, self-adhered membrane lapped up the party wall of a double block, W-profile valley metal formed with a raised center rib, eave intake cut into a boxed cornice that never had a soffit — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Scranton and nearby communities including Dunmore, Carbondale, Old Forge, Pittston.
What We Handle
Everything our chimney flashing in Scranton covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of chimney flashing work in Scranton, PA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- chimney flashing repair
- step flashing replacement
- counter flashing
- chimney cricket
- chimney leak repair
- masonry chimney roof joint
- abandoned coal flue
- chimney removal below roof
- chimney flashing replacement cost
- saddle behind chimney
- chase cover
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Scranton 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 a DEP mine viewer result recorded with the map sheet number, square-edge board sheathing gauged for nail withdrawal before tear-off, SBS-modified laminated shingles chosen for cold-weather flexibility, self-adhered membrane lapped up the party wall of a double block, 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 Scranton 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 Lackawanna Valley 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 Scranton
Scranton Roof Pros covers Scranton and the surrounding communities of the Lackawanna Valley. 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 Dunmore, PA — Lackawanna County, population 14,042
- Chimney Flashing in Carbondale, PA — Lackawanna County, population 8,828
- Chimney Flashing in Old Forge, PA — Lackawanna County, population 8,497
- Chimney Flashing in Pittston, PA — Luzerne County, population 7,591
- Chimney Flashing in Archbald, PA — Lackawanna County, population 7,297
- Chimney Flashing in Blakely, PA — Lackawanna County, population 6,657
Start on the Scranton Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Scranton Chooses Scranton Roof Pros
- ✓We look your address up on the department's mine viewer before we quote, because in this valley the answer changes whether a roof is the right thing to buy this month at all.
- ✓Pennsylvania sells subsidence cover separately instead of writing it into your policy the way the statute does in Illinois, so here the first question is whether any coverage exists, not which of two perils to file under.
- ✓On a house with a mapped void and no policy we will hand you the department's phone number and leave without a signed contract, because forty-one dollars a year outranks anything on our price list.
- ✓We refuse to coat over a split detail. Beyond hiding evidence, unrepaired damage can block the Commonwealth from issuing a policy at all until the repairs are made as its board directs.
The standards behind chimney flashing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The chimney flashing work we do in Scranton 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 Scranton 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 Scranton, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.