Sweep & inspection
Caps & crowns
Flue relining
Masonry repair
Gas fireplace serviceLevel 1 sweep and inspection to the NFPA 211 annual standard - flue, crown, cap, and flashing checked and photographed
Chimney sweep logs do not sweep chimneys. They loosen some creosote - which then falls where a brush and vacuum still have to collect it.
Fast, Reliable Chimney Sweep Across Arlington
Most standard chimney sweeps in Arlington run between $189 and $329, and we book them within the week, not the month. If you’re in Dalworthington Gardens, Sherwood Forest, or anywhere along Cooper Street up toward I-30, we’ll get a background-checked, uniformed technician to your door with a written price in hand before a single brush touches your flue. Call (682) 382-9934 and a live person answers, day or night.
Arlington’s housing stock spans mid-century brick ranches and 1990s two-story suburban builds, and each type fails in its own way. Clay tile liners in older homes crack under North Texas clay soil shifts. Prefab metal chimneys on newer tracts corrode from hard water and frequent hail. We know the difference because we work here every week, and our Chimney Sweep team has swept thousands of Arlington flues since this location opened under the Cedarwell family, established in 2003.
Why Kindling Chimney Fort Worth Is Arlington’s Preferred Chimney Sweep Company
Kindling Chimney Fort Worth serves Arlington with a written care promise on every visit: a price before work begins, shoe covers and drop cloths down before we walk in, and a photo of the clean-up before we leave. The Cedarwell Care Promise isn’t a bullet point in a brochure. It’s how every Arlington job gets done, whether we’re clearing third-degree creosote from a wood stove flue out in unincorporated Tarrant County or pulling a rusted galvanized cap off a Sherwood Forest ranch.
Danny Cortes leads our Arlington crews. He’s the first person you’ll talk to when you call, and he’s the one who reviews every sweep report before it reaches you. That matters when a technician finds a spalled clay liner and you need to know whether it’s a repair-now situation or something that can wait until spring. We don’t pad reports. If your chimney is fine, we’ll say so plainly.
Arlington homeowners call us because we answer the phone. Not a voicemail tree. Not a third-party call center. A live person, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When you need a sweep scheduled around school drop-off or a weekend inspection before the first fire of fall, that’s the difference between a chimney company and a chimney service you can actually rely on.
Styles & brands we work with
Chimney Sweep Services in Arlington
Chimney Sweep Services in Arlington are more than a brush through the flue. Our technicians remove creosote and soot from the firebox through the cap, inspect the liner and damper, and leave you with a written condition report, not just a receipt. For a standard open fireplace with moderate buildup, an Arlington sweep runs $189 to $259 when done annually. Wood stoves, especially in rural parts of Arlington where they run daily through winter, often run $269 to $329 because the creosote loads heavier and takes longer to clear safely.
Creosote isn’t the only thing we’re after. In Arlington’s humid summers, chimneys sit dormant for months, and whatever creosote remained from last season hardens into a glaze that reduces draft. That’s the smoke-back-into-the-living-room problem we hear about every November. A sweep restores airflow before your first fire, not after it.
Annual Sweep for Fireplaces and Wood Stoves
Most Arlington families with an open fireplace need one sweep per year, ideally in late September or early October, before the holiday season. But if you burn wood daily in a stove, or if you burn softwoods like pine, you may need two sweeps per season. We’ll tell you after the first visit what your burn rate actually calls for, rather than putting you on an auto-renew schedule.
Creosote and Soot Removal for Heavy Loads
Third-degree creosote is a hard, shiny glaze that won’t come out with a standard brush. We see it most often in rural Arlington wood stoves and in fireplaces that haven’t been swept in three or more years. Removal takes specialized rotary tools and more time, which is why heavy-load sweeps run toward the top of the range.
What happens when you call
- 1
A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
- 2
You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
- 3
A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
- 4
You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Chimney Cleaning in Arlington
Chimney Cleaning in Arlington means removing the combustible deposits that build up from burning wood, then making sure the cap, crown, and damper still do their jobs. A standard fireplace cleaning runs $189 to $259. If you’re in an older Arlington home off Park Springs Boulevard or Green Oaks Boulevard with a 1960s clay liner, we’ll also budget time to look for hairline cracks from decades of North Texas soil movement.
Our crews use a HEPA-filtered vacuum at the firebox for every cleaning, not a tarp stapled to the mantle. Floors stay clean because drop cloths go down before anything else. And if you have kids or pets, we use the quietest tools available where there’s a choice, and pet-safe products where there’s a choice. The house should smell like nothing happened, not like chemicals.
Fireplace Cleaning with Ash and Soot Removal
Ash left in the firebox through an Arlington summer picks up humidity and turns acidic. That acid sits against the firebox floor and accelerates mortar breakdown. We remove ash and soot as part of every standard cleaning, and we check the ash dump door if your fireplace has one.
Smoke Chamber Cleaning
The smoke chamber is the triangle-shaped area above the damper where soot accumulates fastest. Many Arlington homeowners have never heard of it, but a dirty smoke chamber is a common cause of smoke backing into the house. We clean it on every sweep and tell you what we found.
Trusted Brands We Service in Arlington
We install and service chimneys, caps, and liners built by Olympia Chimney, Famco, and Copperfield, and we stock common replacement parts for Arlington’s most frequent failure points: rusted galvanized caps and corroded chase covers on factory-built chimneys. That means when we find a rusted cap on a 1970s Sherwood Forest home, we often have a stainless Famco replacement on the truck or in the Arlington local warehouse the same week. No six-week part order, no second trip. We also work with DuraFlex liners for Arlington homes that need a new stainless flue, built to handle the hard water and hail exposure we see across Tarrant County. Every part we install carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not right, we make it right.
Common Chimney Sweep Problems We See in Arlington Homes
The following four problems show up on Arlington service calls more than anywhere else in Tarrant County. Knowing them helps you know what to look for.
- Third-degree creosote glaze from daily wood stove use: Rural Arlington properties often burn wood as a primary heat source, producing heavy buildup that hardens into a shiny, flammable glaze. When homeowners skip a season because last winter was mild, that glaze goes unnoticed and becomes a serious fire hazard by November.
- Rusted galvanized caps on Sherwood Forest homes: The original 1970s caps were never upgraded to stainless, and Arlington’s hard water plus hail cycles rust them through in under 15 years. A rusted cap lets water into the flue, which spalls the clay liner below it and eventually kills the draft.
- Clay tile liner cracks in Dalworthington Gardens: Mid-century brick ranches sit on expansive clay soil that shifts with every wet-dry cycle. Those shifts transfer to the chimney stack, cracking clay flue tiles. Hairline cracks widen over time and can let heat reach the framing, which is a chimney fire waiting for the wrong burn.
- Hardened creosote from long-dormant fireplaces: Hot, humid Arlington summers bake whatever creosote was left after last season into a hard scale that narrows the flue and blocks airflow. The first fire of fall then smokes into the living room because the draft can’t get established. A cleaning before that first fire prevents the whole cycle.
See the difference
Before
After
Before
After
Before
AfterPricing for Chimney Sweep in Arlington, TX
A standard open-fireplace chimney sweep in Arlington runs $189 to $259. Wood stoves and fireplaces with heavy third-degree creosote run $269 to $329 because the work takes longer and requires rotary cleaning tools. Level 1 inspections, which we include with every sweep, are $99 on their own. Level 2 inspections run $249 to $349 when they include a camera scan of the full flue, which we recommend for older Arlington brick ranches with clay liners and for any home that recently survived a hail storm. Nothing gets added to your bill that wasn’t on the written price you approved before we started.
What actually changes the price is buildup level and access. A straight flue with first-degree creosote sweeps quickly. A 1960s ranch with a cracked clay liner, a rusted cap, and a smoke chamber full of soot takes longer and costs more. The free estimate we give you over the phone will tell you exactly which end of the range your chimney falls into. Call (682) 382-9934 for a fixed quote, not a “starting at” teaser.
We Also Serve Cities Near Arlington
Beyond Arlington, our crews serve Kennedale, Burleson, Fort Worth, and Haltom City, with the same written pricing and the same Cedarwell Care Promise. If you’re on the edge of Arlington and wondering whether we’ll come out, call and ask. Dispatch is coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, and Arlington crews are on the road most weekdays. If you’re looking for Chimney Sweep in Arlington, we’re your local team, and that service area extends to every city I just named.
Serving Arlington, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Arlington area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Chimney Sweep in Arlington
Every 6 to 8 cords of wood burned, which for most rural Arlington wood-stove users means twice per heating season, typically once in October and once in January. Daily winter burning produces heavy creosote loading faster than open fireplaces, and Arlington’s humid summer months harden whatever was left behind into a glaze that reduces draft. We’ll tell you after your first sweep what your specific burn rate requires. If you’re unsure whether you’re due, call (682) 382-9934 and we’ll help you figure it out over the phone.
Yes. Hail hits galvanized caps at the same angle it hits your roof, and a cap that’s been dented once corrodes twice as fast in Arlington’s hard water. The rust starts at the dent points and spreads under the paint, and you won’t see it from the ground. A roof that looks fine after a hail storm tells you nothing about your cap. We recommend a quick visual check of the cap and crown at least once per year, and a Level 2 camera inspection after any storm that drops quarter-sized hail or larger.
Because the flue is partially blocked by hardened creosote and the draft can’t establish against cold, dense air in the chimney. In Arlington’s humid summers, creosote from the previous winter bakes into a hard scale that narrows the flue. When the first cold front moves through and you light a fire, the smoke has nowhere to go except back into the living room. The fix is a thorough sweep before the first burn, not after the room fills with smoke.
A Level 1 inspection is a visual check of the accessible parts of the chimney and is included with every sweep in Arlington, running $99 on its own. A Level 2 inspection uses a camera to scan the full interior of the flue and runs $249 to $349. You need a Level 2 if you’re buying or selling a home, if you’ve had a chimney fire, if you’ve had a significant hail storm or foundation work, or if your Arlington home is a 1960s-80s brick ranch with a clay liner showing age. We’ll recommend which inspection fits your situation and tell you what we see in plain English.
You usually can’t know without a camera inspection, but the warning signs are flaking tile pieces in the firebox after a sweep, a damp or musty smell from the fireplace after rain, or smoke backing into the house on windy days. North Texas clay soil expands and contracts with every rain and drought cycle, and in Dalworthington Gardens and other older Arlington neighborhoods, that movement transfers through the foundation into the chimney stack. Hairline cracks in clay liners don’t announce themselves. A Level 2 camera inspection will show exactly what’s there, and we’ll show you the footage before we recommend a single repair.
Your Fireplace, Your Family, and the C.A.R.E. Standard
When a Kindling technician arrives at an Arlington home, the first things to go down are shoe covers and drop cloths. Your floors don’t get scuffed. Your furniture doesn’t get moved without asking. Your kids don’t hear noisy tools if quiet tools will do the job, and where there’s a choice, the products are pet-safe. The C.A.R.E. values aren’t a slogan. They’re the order of operations on every single visit in Arlington, and they’re part of the Cedarwell Care Promise, which also includes a written price before work begins and a photo of the clean-up before the crew leaves.
If you’re a family with kids and pets, a dirty chimney isn’t just a maintenance item. It’s the thing between your living room and a chimney fire, or between your kids and carbon monoxide on a January night. That’s why we don’t rush, and why we don’t scare. We clean properly, inspect honestly, and leave you with a report you can understand. The 365-Day Done Right Promise backs every sweep, inspection, and repair we perform in Arlington, including the stainless caps and liners we install from Famco, Olympia Chimney, and Copperfield.
Ready to schedule? Danny Cortes and the Arlington crews are ready to take your call. We’ll give you a straight price, find a time that works around your kids’ schedules, and show up with everything your chimney actually needs. Nothing more. Call (682) 382-9934 for a free estimate, or to ask any question about your fireplace, your wood stove, or what a level-two camera inspection would show inside your flue.
Written by Danny Cortes, Owner at Kindling Chimney Fort Worth, serving Arlington and the surrounding Tarrant County area.