Ingham County
Chimney Repair in Ingham County
Ingham County covers Lansing, East Lansing and Mason in central Michigan, combining state-capital and university housing with surrounding farmland. The building stock is unusually mixed: dense pre-war neighbourhoods, large rental conversions near campus, mid-century suburbs and new construction on the edges.
Rental property is the distinguishing factor in this county. Chimneys serving rented housing are used by people who did not install the appliance and often have no service history to consult, and they get inspected on turnover rather than on schedule.
Rental and Converted Housing in Ingham County
Large older houses converted to multiple units are the configuration we are most careful with. Conversions frequently leave multiple appliances venting into flues that were built to serve one, and shared or interconnected flues are a carbon monoxide risk rather than merely an efficiency problem.
Establishing what is connected to what is the first job on a converted property. It is not something you can determine from the roof, and it is the reason a Level 2 camera inspection is the appropriate standard on any building whose use has changed since it was built.