Masonry repair
Sweep & inspection
Caps & crowns
Flue relining
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 Repair Across Preston Hollow
Chimney repair in Preston Hollow typically runs $350 – $2,800 depending on whether you’re dealing with a cracked crown, spalling brick, a failed flashing, or a full flue relining. Most repairs take one visit, and we put the full price in writing before a single tool comes off the truck. If you live in Preston Hollow – along Strait Lane, Meaders Lane, or in the estate corridors off Douglas Avenue – you know these aren’t off-the-shelf chimneys. Tall custom masonry, multiple flues, stone cap work. Flint Chimney Co Dallas is led by Hank Delano, and our crews work on these houses regularly. Call (361) 492-4099 when you see water staining near the firebox or smell smoke in an upstairs room.
Why Flint Chimney Co Dallas Is Preston Hollow’s Preferred Chimney Repair Company
Preston Hollow houses don’t have one chimney with one problem. They have oversized masonry structures with two or three flues running wood-burning fireplaces, gas logs, and furnace vents through a shared chase. When a crown cracks on a chimney like that, it’s not a single repair. Water follows the crack, finds the clay tile liners, and now both flues are compromised. Our Chimney Repair team starts every job with that assumption: the problem I can see is rarely the only thing wrong.
We’re part of the Garrison Partners family, founded in 2002, and we operate under The Garrison Standard. Every Preston Hollow repair gets a written scope, a written price, and a written guarantee valid for 365 days. No verbal estimates, no “we’ll see when we open it up.” Our background-checked, uniformed technicians arrive inside the window we give. The phone is answered by a live person, 24 hours a day. That matters when you call on a Sunday morning because a chimney cap blew off in a storm.
Hank Delano leads the crew, and the standard he set is simple: if it’s not done right, we make it right. That’s the 365-Day Done Right Promise, and it’s written on every repair order. You don’t have to ask for it.
Styles & brands we work with
Chimney Masonry Repair in Preston Hollow
Chimney Masonry Repair on Preston Hollow homes usually means addressing spalled or cracked brick on tall custom chimneys, repointing mortar joints that have turned to dust, or rebuilding a crown that has separated from the flue. Expect to pay $400 – $1,800 for spot repointing, $600 – $2,200 for crown replacement, and $1,500+ when we have to tear down and rebuild a section of the stack. These are taller chimneys with more exposed surface area, so the labor differs from a standard ranch house.
Freeze-Thaw Damage on Tall Chimneys
Preston Hollow’s clay soil shifts with moisture, and the rare hard freezes that do hit North Dallas push water behind painted brick, where it freezes and pops the face off the brick. We see this pattern constantly on the custom masonry homes around Inwood Road and the estate neighborhoods east of Hillcrest. The fix is not just replacing the bad brick. It’s finding where the water entered, correcting that path, and then matching the mortar color and joint profile so the repair doesn’t look like a patch.
Crowns That Fail Across Multiple Flues
A chimney crown that covers two flues and a chase is a bigger piece of concrete than most people realize. When it cracks – and they all eventually crack – the crack doesn’t care which flue it crosses. On a Preston Hollow home with a wood-burning fireplace in the living room and a gas log set in the study, one crown crack can send water into both systems. We form and pour new crowns with a proper overhang and drip edge, which is the detail most original 1960s and 1970s construction never had.
Chimney Cap Installation in Preston Hollow
Chimney Cap Installation in Preston Hollow is more complicated than dropping a lid on a flue. Many of these homes have oversized, custom caps built from copper, stone, or stucco-covered steel that sit well above the flue opening. That’s a design choice for the roofline, but it creates a real functional problem: the cap holds heat in, reduces draft, and becomes a nesting box for squirrels and grackles. A proper cap in Preston Hollow needs to keep animals out without strangling the draft a tall chimney relies on. Expect $450 – $1,400 for most installations, depending on the flue size and whether we’re fabricating a custom stainless or copper cap.
Replacing Caps Without Damaging Stone Work
On a home in the Preston Hollow East neighborhood, our techs pulled a dead squirrel and enough nesting material to fill two contractor bags out of an oversized copper chimney cap before discovering third-degree creosote glazing the flue liner above a secondary firebox. We installed a new Famco cap with bird mesh, removed the glazed creosote with a rotary whip, and ran a Level 2 camera inspection to confirm the firebox and smoke chamber were sound before the homeowner fired it up for the first cold snap. The stone around that cap was untouched. That’s the standard.
Draft and Animal Guard
The cap’s second job is keeping the flue pulling correctly. A cap that sits too high or too tight starves the flue of air, and then smoke spills back into the room instead of going up. We measure the flue, calculate the required net free area, and choose or fabricate a cap that keeps animals out and lets the chimney breathe. On most Preston Hollow jobs we use Olympia Chimney or Famco caps, depending on the flue dimensions.
Trusted Brands We Service in Preston Hollow
We install and service HeatShield and Gelco lining systems on Preston Hollow chimneys, and we stock the most common cap sizes from Olympia Chimney and Famco locally. When a home on Strait Lane or Royal Lane needs a liner patched or a cap replaced, we’re not waiting a week for parts to ship from out of state. We carry professional-grade materials because the repair is only as good as what goes into it. A liner that survives three seasons isn’t a bargain, it’s a problem waiting for a below-freezing January night.
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AfterCommon Chimney Repair Problems We See in Preston Hollow Homes
- Spalling brick on tall, custom chimneys: Water seeps behind painted or exposed brick, freezes in Preston Hollow’s rare hard freezes, and pops the brick face off. By the time you see flakes of brick on the patio, the damage usually extends several courses deep.
- Multiple flues sharing one compromised crown: A two-flue chimney with a cracked crown leaks water into both liners. You can reline one flue and still have a failed chimney if the crown crack isn’t addressed at the same time.
- Nesting debris in oversized caps: Those decorative caps that sit well above the flue opening collect squirrels, birds, and nesting material. The blockage kills draft, and the debris itself becomes a fire load once the creosote ignites.
- Smoke-stained fireboxes from draft failure: On homes where the cap is too restrictive or the flue is choked with creosote, smoke rolls back into the room and blackens the firebox face. Cleaning won’t fix it if the real issue is a draft problem above.
Pricing for Chimney Repair in Preston Hollow, TX
A standard chimney sweep in Preston Hollow runs $180 – $340, and that catches most creosote problems before they become repairs. Camera inspections run $125 – $250. Mortar repointing starts around $400 and climbs with chimney height and access difficulty. Crown repair or replacement runs $600 – $2,200. Flue relining with HeatShield typically lands between $2,500 and $4,500 for a single flue. The factors that move the number: chimney height, whether we need a lift or can work from the roof, how many flues share the chase, and whether the custom stone or cap work needs to be preserved rather than removed. Call (361) 492-4099 and we’ll give you a written price before any work begins. That’s not a promise, it’s how we operate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Preston Hollow
Flint Chimney Co Dallas serves Preston Hollow and the surrounding communities, including Dallas, Irving, Carrollton, and Lakewood. If you’re in one of these areas and need chimney repair, the same written pricing and 365-day guarantee apply. Call (361) 492-4099 for scheduling.
Serving Preston Hollow, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Preston Hollow 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 Repair in Preston Hollow
Because the flues share a chase and a crown, so damage to one is rarely isolated to one. A cracked crown lets water into every flue below it. A liner failure in the wood-burning flue can draw smoke into the adjacent gas flue. On a Preston Hollow home, we inspect the entire chimney structure, not just the flue you called about. Otherwise we’re back in six months fixing what we missed. Call (361) 492-4099 for a full inspection.
Yes. We remove the existing cap carefully, preserve the stone surround, and install a properly sized replacement that sits on the flue tile rather than on the stone itself. We’ve done this on multiple estate homes in the neighborhood, including one in Preston Hollow East where a copper cap had to come off without disturbing the limestone it was set into. The stone was untouched, and the new Famco cap went in clean. Get a written quote at (361) 492-4099.
The mature tree cover around Preston Hollow means more squirrels, more nests, and more twigs and leaves finding their way into chimneys that don’t have a proper animal guard. That’s a cleaning problem until the debris blocks the flue, then it’s a repair problem because a blocked flue overheats and cracks. A good cap install prevents both. We recommend Olympia Chimney caps with proper bird mesh on every Preston Hollow home we service.
Yes, and here’s why: chimney fires in one flue often crack the liner in the adjacent flue because the heat radiates through the shared masonry. You might have two fireplaces. One fire in the living room can damage the chimney serving the study. A Level 2 camera inspection shows us the full interior of every flue in the chase, so we’re not guessing. The standard National Fire Protection Association guideline is a Level 2 after any chimney fire. We follow it on every Preston Hollow job. Call (361) 492-4099 to schedule.
Likely, and it usually comes down to the cap being oversized or the flue being undersized for the firebox opening. On Preston Hollow’s estate homes, decorative caps often sit too far above the flue, killing the draft. Or the flue was sized for a gas log set and then someone converted back to wood. Smoke spills out, stains the face brick, and no amount of sweeping fixes it because the cleaning isn’t the issue. We measure the system and tell you what’s actually wrong before recommending any repair. That’s the whole point of the written price and scope. Call (361) 492-4099.
Written by Hank Delano, Owner at Flint Chimney Co Dallas, serving Preston Hollow and the surrounding Dallas-Fort Worth area. Hank leads the Garrison Standard work in this region and stands behind every repair with the 365-Day Done Right Promise.