Chimney Services in Anaheim, CA

Anaheim developed earlier than most of Orange County, with substantial post-war tract building through the 1950s and 1960s putting masonry fireboxes into a large number of near-identical houses on the flat. Those liners are now well past middle age. East of the city, Anaheim Hills climbs into canyon terrain built out considerably later and almost entirely with factory-built units — and sitting in fire hazard severity zones that the flatland does not.

What is specific to Anaheim

• Extensive 1950s and 1960s tract development across the flatland installed masonry fireboxes with clay tile liners now sixty to seventy years old.

• Anaheim Hills and the eastern canyon areas sit in high and very high fire hazard severity zones, unlike the western flatland. The spark arrestor the state code requires on every wood-burning chimney matters most there.

  Source: CAL FIRE

• The city contains both aging masonry on the flat and substantially newer factory-built installations in the eastern hills, so the appropriate first step differs by neighborhood.

• South Coast AQMD jurisdiction applies, with mandatory winter no-burn declarations and Rule 445 installation restrictions.

  Source: SCAQMD