Straight-talk chimney guides for Arlington homeowners, sweep frequency, flue fires, leaks, caps, liners, and how to hire a sweep.
An honest look at do chimney cleaning logs really work for Arlington homes, from a local chimney crew.
Read more →North Texas winters are short and most Arlington fireplaces burn only a handful of times a year. That occasional use is exactly why so many chimneys here hide problems until the night you light a fire.
Read more →The expansive clay soil under the whole metroplex swells and shrinks with the seasons, and it is the quiet reason behind so many leaning stacks and cracked masonry chimneys in Arlington.
Read more →Arlington sits in one of the most active hail and severe-storm corridors in the country, and the chimney takes some of the worst of it. Here is the damage a storm season leaves at the top of your stack.
Read more →Switching to gas logs is convenient and clean, but it does not mean the chimney can be forgotten. Here is what a gas-log set in an Arlington home still asks of the flue and the venting.
Read more →The crown is the slab at the top of the chimney that almost nobody thinks about, and in the North Texas sun and storms it is the first thing to fail. Here is why it matters so much and how to tell when yours has gone.
Read more →A standard home inspection barely touches the chimney, and on an older Arlington home with our soils and storms, that is a costly blind spot. Here is why a dedicated chimney inspection belongs in the purchase.
Read more →Sweep, inspection, repair, caps, or relining, call us and a Arlington crew assesses it honestly, quotes the work in writing, with up-front pricing and no pressure.