We photograph every job before we start and after we finish, it keeps our work honest and gives you proof instead of promises. These are real DFW fireplaces and chimneys, exactly as our cameras found them and left them.
Every Lowes Chimney Sweep visit starts with a camera and ends with one. Documentation is how we explain repairs before we make them, how you see exactly what your money bought, and how a company earns trust one photographed project at a time, protective floor coverings and all. You'll spot those drop cloths in nearly every frame below; respecting the home is part of the work.
Each project here connects to the service behind it, from fireplace repair to camera inspections, and to the 98 DFW cities we serve. If you see your problem in a "before" photo, the "after" is one Free Online Quote away.
A full chase siding job documented at all three stages. The damaged siding came off first so the framing underneath could be inspected properly rather than covered over. With the structure sound, new siding went on, colour matched to the house in two tones to follow the existing trim, then every seam caulked and sealed. Nothing here was patched over the top of the old material.
Services: Chimney Chase Repair and Chase Rebuild
This firebox had years of use showing: deteriorated mortar joints, surface damage, and staining that made the whole fireplace look tired. We repaired the damaged areas, sealed the masonry against future moisture and soot penetration, and refinished the interior in high-temperature paint — same fireplace, ready for another decade of fires.
Service: Fireplace Repair and Chimney Inspection
Every refractory panel in this firebox had reached the end of its life — cracking and separation that let heat reach the structure behind the firebox, a genuine fire hazard. We removed the full panel set and installed new refractory panels sized to this firebox, restoring the heat barrier the fireplace was built with.
Service: Firebox Panel Replacement and Fireplace Repair
Chase chimneys, the framed and sided kind rather than solid masonry, need a different cap than a brick chimney does. This one got a T-top: a custom-fabricated cap built for this chase specifically, finished in white to match the housing rather than sitting on top of it in mismatched metal. The old cap came off, the new one went on, sized to this chimney rather than pulled off a shelf.
Services: Chimney Cap Installation, Cap Replacement and Chimney Chase Cover
Stage 3 creosote is the dangerous kind, hardened and glazed onto the flue walls where a standard brush simply slides over it. Removing it takes a chemical treatment applied to the deposits, left to break down the glaze, followed by mechanical cleaning. This is the buildup that fuels chimney fires, and it is why a flue that looks swept is not always a flue that is clean.
Services: Chimney Sweep and Chimney Inspection
Stock caps are built to standard sizes, which is fine until your flue is not a standard size. This cap was fabricated to this chimney’s own measurements and to the style the homeowner wanted, so it seals correctly, keeps rain and animals out of the flue, and looks like it belongs on the house rather than something bolted on.
Services: Chimney Cap Installation and Cap Replacement
Two jobs in one visit. The crown had deteriorated past the point where sealing would hold, so it was rebuilt rather than patched, restoring the sloped surface that sheds water away from the flue and masonry. With the crown sound again, we finished the job with a chimney cap fabricated to this chimney's own measurements, in the style the homeowner chose, rather than forcing a stock cap to fit.
Services: Chimney Crown Replacement, Crown Repair and Custom Cap Installation
The original refractory panels were cracked through and no longer available as stock parts, the point where most companies tell a homeowner to replace the entire firebox. We took the other route: removed the damaged panels, fabricated new ones to match the original dimensions and pattern exactly, installed them, and finished the firebox in high-temperature black.
Service: Firebox Panel Replacement and Fireplace Repair
When masonry deterioration reaches the structure itself, repointing and patching stop being an honest answer. This chimney was rebuilt rather than patched, restoring both the structure and the weather protection it had lost.
Service: Chimney Rebuild and Chimney Repair
The crown is the concrete surface capping the top of the masonry, and it is the first thing to fail in North Texas. Freeze-thaw cycles open hairline cracks, water gets in, and the damage spreads down into the brickwork below.
Service: Chimney Crown Repair
A chase is the framed and sided housing around a factory-built chimney. When the siding, framing or caulking fails, water reaches the structure behind it, and what starts cosmetic becomes structural.
Service: Chimney Chase Cover and Chimney Repair
This chase was stripped to bare framing, the flue liner left standing alone in an open timber frame. We rebuilt it completely: new framing squared and secured, new siding, fresh caulking throughout, paint matched to the house, a new chase cover, and a new chimney cap fitted on top. Nothing here was patched, it was rebuilt.
A failing chase doesn't have to mean a failing fireplace, from chase covers to full rebuilds, call (214) 225-8874 and we'll scope yours on camera.
Siding on a chimney chase takes weather from every direction, and once a panel splits or a seam opens, water runs behind the boards where nobody can see it. Patching over damaged siding hides the problem for a season and traps moisture against the framing. On this chase we stripped every panel back to the structure, checked what was underneath, then installed new siding, caulked each seam, and matched the two-tone paint to the existing trim so the finished chase reads as part of the house instead of a repair.
If the siding on your chase is cupping, splitting, or pulling away at the corners, that is a water problem before it is a looks problem. Our chimney chase repair service handles siding and trim, and where the framing underneath has already gone soft a full chase rebuild is the honest answer. Call (214) 225-8874 or request a Free Online Quote and we will show you what is behind the panels before anything gets replaced.
A poured concrete crown is only as good as its last freeze-thaw season. Once it cracks through, rebuilding it in concrete puts the same material back in the same weather. On this chimney we removed the failed crown entirely, then fitted a metal crown cover sized to the masonry, which sheds water off the top instead of absorbing it. A custom-made cap was fabricated to sit on top of that cover, closing the flue to rain, leaves, and animals. Three stages, photographed as we went.
Crown failure is the most common way water gets into a North Texas chimney, and it rarely announces itself until staining shows up on a ceiling. If yours is cracked or spalling, compare a crown repair against a crown replacement honestly before spending anything, and ask whether a custom cap installation belongs on top. A camera inspection settles it in one visit. Call (214) 225-8874 or start with a Free Online Quote.
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