Detroit Roof Pros provides professional chimney flashing in Detroit, MI for residential and commercial properties across southeast Michigan. Detroit brick chimneys usually run up through the middle of the house rather than outside it, which means the chimney passes directly through the finished half-story. A chimney leak here shows up on a bedroom wall, not in an attic nobody visits.
That has a consequence worth stating out loud. On most houses a chimney flashing failure leaks quietly into an attic for a couple of years before anyone notices the damage. Here it announces itself immediately on the plaster beside the chimney breast, which is unpleasant to look at but genuinely useful, because you find out while the repair is still a flashing job rather than a framing job.
The repair itself is old-fashioned and there are no shortcuts in it. Step flashing woven into every shingle course, separate counterflashing cut into a mortar reglet and folded down over the steps, and a soldered or seamed cricket on the high side of any chimney over thirty inches wide. Surface-mounted counterflashing caulked to the face of the brick is not a repair, it is a two-year delay.
The masonry has to be sound before any flashing goes near it. Cutting a reglet into a joint that is already soft achieves nothing at all, so where the mortar is failing we tuckpoint or have it tuckpointed first, and we look hard at the crown while the ladder is still up. A crown that has cracked pours water down inside the brick and produces interior stains that look exactly like a flashing leak does.
Now the recommendation that costs us money. A large share of these chimneys are abandoned, serving a furnace that was converted to a high-efficiency sidewall vent years ago, or a fireplace nobody has lit this century. If yours is dead, taking it down below the roofline and decking over the opening is cheaper than reflashing it and permanently removes the leak instead of managing it.
So we ask what the chimney still does before we quote anything at all. If it vents a water heater or an atmospheric furnace it stays, it gets flashed properly, and you should have the liner looked at by somebody who does that work for a living. If it vents nothing, the honest quote is the removal, and that is the one we would rather write.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — rafter-bay ventilation baffles, closed-cell spray polyurethane at the deck underside, knee-wall access panels, shed-dormer cheek-wall step flashing, plaster-and-lath ceiling planes, square-edge 1x6 board sheathing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Detroit and nearby communities including Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Livonia, Redford.
What We Handle
Everything our chimney flashing in Detroit covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of chimney flashing work in Detroit, MI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- chimney flashing repair Detroit
- step and counterflashing
- mortar reglet flashing
- chimney cricket
- abandoned chimney removal
- chimney crown repair
- chimney leak bedroom wall
- brick chimney tuckpointing
- chimney flashing cost
- unlined chimney Detroit
- chimney saddle
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Detroit 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 rafter-bay ventilation baffles, closed-cell spray polyurethane at the deck underside, knee-wall access panels, shed-dormer cheek-wall step flashing, 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 Detroit 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 southeast Michigan 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 Detroit
Detroit Roof Pros covers Detroit and the surrounding communities of southeast Michigan. 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 Dearborn, MI — Wayne County, population 109,976
- Chimney Flashing in Dearborn Heights, MI — Wayne County, population 63,292
- Chimney Flashing in Livonia, MI — Wayne County, population 95,535
- Chimney Flashing in Redford, MI — Wayne County, population 49,504
- Chimney Flashing in Garden City, MI — Wayne County, population 27,380
- Chimney Flashing in Wyandotte, MI — Wayne County, population 25,058
Start on the Detroit Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Detroit Chooses Detroit Roof Pros
- ✓We label every roof plane attic above or finished space above before we price anything, because that is what decides whether a repair or a replacement is the honest answer.
- ✓The inspection happens indoors as well as outdoors. A pin moisture meter on plaster at the knee-wall base finds what a scuttle-hole inspection structurally cannot reach.
- ✓Deck work is priced as its own line. Square-edge 1x6 board sheathing is renailed where sound and overlaid by the section where it is not, with the square footage stated.
- ✓Ventilation is quoted as a path, not a product. If the wood soffit behind your aluminum was never cut open, a ridge vent has been drawing on nothing for years.
The standards behind chimney flashing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The chimney flashing work we do in Detroit 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 Detroit 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 Detroit, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.