Commercial Chimney Cleaning in Arlington, TX From a Local Crew
Take an apartment complex off Cooper Street built in 1982. Forty units, forty factory-built fireplaces, forty metal chase covers on the roof, and a maintenance log that says the chimneys were last looked at “a few years ago.” The first cold front hits in late October, tenants light fires, and by December the office has two complaints about smoke smell and one about a water stain on a top-floor ceiling. That is the commercial chimney call we get most often in Arlington.
Crownline Chimney Sweep provides commercial chimney cleaning in Arlington, TX for restaurants, apartment complexes, HOAs, condo associations and property managers. We quote the whole property after a free walk-through, in writing, per flue. Our crew has worked on Arlington chimneys for more than 20 years, we are insured and bonded, and every flue gets its own written report with photos that you can hand to your insurance carrier.
This page explains what commercial chimney services include, who needs them in Arlington, what moves the price, and how we schedule around tenants and dinner service.
Who Needs Commercial Chimney Services in Arlington
Commercial chimney work in Arlington falls into four groups, and each one has its own problem.
- Restaurants and bars. A wood-burning fireplace in the dining room or on the patio burns every evening from November to March. That is more fires in one season than most homes see in five years, and creosote builds fast. Wood-fired ovens have a flue too, and it needs the same sweep.
- Apartment complexes. The 1970s and 80s complexes near UTA, along Cooper Street and east toward the stadiums have factory-built fireplaces with metal chase covers. The covers rust, the caps go missing, and nobody looks until a tenant complains.
- HOAs and condo associations. The association often owns the chimney above the roof while the unit owner owns the firebox. The board needs a yearly inspection with photos so it can budget repairs and answer owners.
- Property managers and landlords. Single-family rentals across South and Southwest Arlington, where the tenant uses the fireplace and the owner lives in another city. A written report per house is how you prove the chimney was safe when the lease started.
If your building has a masonry chimney that vents a gas water heater or boiler, that flue needs an inspection too. A blocked or cracked flue on a gas appliance is a carbon monoxide risk, not just a smoke risk.
What Commercial Chimney Cleaning Includes
Every commercial job in Arlington follows the same steps, whether it is one fireplace or sixty.
- Walk-through and count. A technician walks the property, counts every flue and vent, notes roof access, and checks the age and type of each fireplace. You get the written estimate from this visit. It is free.
- Schedule and notice. We set building-by-building windows. For apartments, we send the notice text through your office so tenants know the date and the window.
- Sweep each flue. Drop cloths down, HEPA vacuum running, flue brushed from the firebox up, smoke chamber and damper cleaned. The same chimney sweep and cleaning process we use in Arlington homes, repeated per unit.
- Camera inspection. A camera look up every flue, with a photo of each finding: cracked tile, gap in the smoke chamber, rusted damper, nest, glazed creosote.
- Roof check. Caps, chase covers, crowns and flashing on every chimney, photographed from the roof. This is where Tarrant County hail damage shows up first.
- Report and invoice. One written report per flue with photos and a repair list sorted into urgent, soon and monitor. One invoice for the property.
The report is the part a property manager needs most, and it is the same photo report every Arlington homeowner gets from us. It is dated, it has photos, and it answers the two questions an insurer or a fire marshal asks: when was the chimney last inspected, and what did it look like.
Commercial Chimney Inspection Reports for Insurance
NFPA 211, the standard for chimneys, fireplaces and vents, calls for an inspection of every chimney once a year and a sweep whenever creosote reaches 1/8 inch. Insurance carriers for restaurants and multifamily buildings increasingly ask for proof of that inspection, and after a chimney fire or a hail claim, the adjuster wants photos from before the event.
Crownline’s commercial chimney inspection in Arlington gives you that proof. Each flue gets a Level 1 inspection with photos of the firebox, damper, smoke chamber, flue, cap, crown and chase cover. When a property changes hands, after a chimney fire, or after a hailstorm, we recommend a Level 2 chimney inspection with a full video scan of each flue, which is the report lenders and adjusters ask for by name.
Multi-Flue Chimneys and Factory-Built Fireplaces
Arlington’s commercial chimneys come in two types, and they fail differently.
Masonry multi-flue chimneys sit on older apartment buildings and on larger homes in Dalworthington Gardens and Old Arlington. One brick structure holds two, three or more clay tile flues. Each flue is swept and inspected on its own, but the roof setup happens once, so the per-flue price drops. The common finds are cracked clay tiles, a mortar crown split by North Texas clay soil movement, and brick faces spalling after years of freeze-thaw.
Factory-built (prefab) fireplaces are what most 1970s to 2000s apartment complexes and townhomes in South and Southwest Arlington have. A metal firebox, a metal flue pipe, a wood-framed chase with siding, and a sheet-metal chase cover on top. The chase cover rusts through, water runs down the chase, and the siding and framing rot from the inside. A chimney chase cover replacement in stainless steel is the single most common commercial repair we quote in Arlington, and catching it before the chase rots saves the chimney siding and chase repair that comes later.
Either way, we check every cap. A missing cap on an apartment flue means rain, leaves, and in May and June, chimney swifts or a raccoon. One animal removal call costs more than a cap.
Commercial Chimney Cleaning Pricing in Arlington: What Moves the Price
Crownline does not publish a flat commercial price, because no two properties have the same flue count or roof. We quote after the free walk-through, in writing, per flue. The factors that move the number:
| Factor | What it means for the price |
|---|---|
| Number of flues | Priced per flue; the roof setup on a multi-flue chimney is done once |
| Time since last sweep | Heavy or glazed creosote takes longer and may need creosote removal |
| Roof access | Steep roofs, three-story buildings or lift access add time |
| Fireplace type | Masonry flues take longer than prefab flues |
| Report format | Per-unit reports for an HOA take longer than one property report |
| Repairs approved | Caps, chase covers, crowns and flashing are quoted separately, free estimate |
The written price is the price. We never quote low over the phone and add charges on site. If we find something the walk-through could not show, we photograph it and ask before doing anything extra.
Scheduling Around Tenants, Guests and Dinner Service
We are open every day from 7 AM to 10 PM, which matters more for commercial work than for homes. Restaurants book the morning before prep, usually one visit. Apartment managers book weekday windows after the tenant notice goes out, building by building, and we leave each unit as we found it: drop cloths, HEPA vacuum, shoe covers. Rooftop-only work, such as caps, chase covers and crown repair, happens without entering any unit.
For an HOA, we send the report per building or per unit, with the repair list and a written price for each item, so the board can approve what it wants and budget the rest.
Commercial Chimney Repair in Arlington
Cleaning is only half of commercial chimney services. The inspection report usually comes with a repair list, and Crownline does those repairs too, with a free estimate and a written price before any work:
- Stainless steel chimney caps and chase covers, sized to the flue
- Crown repair and rebuilds on masonry chimneys
- Flashing repair where the chimney meets the roof, the usual source of a top-floor ceiling stain
- Masonry repairs: tuckpointing, brick replacement and partial rebuilds on 1950s to 1980s chimneys
- Stainless steel liners for cracked clay tile flues
- Damper repair and replacement in rental fireboxes
The full list is on our chimney services in Arlington page. For a property with a repair list in the thousands, we sort it by urgency and give you the “what happens if we wait” answer on each line, so nothing gets fixed that could have waited a year.
Why Arlington Property Managers Choose Crownline
A property manager’s chimney vendor needs to do three things: show up on the date, leave the units clean, and hand over a report that stands up to an insurer. Crownline Chimney Sweep is based at 700 Highlander Blvd near the Parks Mall and I-20, so we are minutes from every complex in Arlington, Pantego and Dalworthington Gardens. Our crew has worked on Arlington buildings for more than 20 years and knows which complexes have prefab fireplaces and which have the old masonry stacks. We are insured and bonded, and we send the paperwork before the first visit. You get a written price per flue before scheduling, a photo report per flue after, free estimates on every repair, and price matching on written quotes from an insured company. That is what we mean when we say Crownline is the best chimney company in Arlington for commercial work.
Call (817) 505-4222 or use the estimate form on this page. Tell us the property address and a rough flue count, and we will set the walk-through.