Arbor Heights, King County
Relining in Arbor Heights begins at $1,900. The price buys a continuous stainless steel liner dropped through the existing flue, sized to the appliance it will serve and sealed at the crown under a cap. Extra height, a wider diameter, insulation wrap or a bend in the flue each add a line to the quote, and you see every line before anything is ordered. We never size a liner from the street: the flue is filmed and measured first.
Typical investment
From $1,900
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The same crew, the same written quote — for Arbor Heights homes.
Level 1 examination of everything reachable, with a Level 2 camera pass when the reachable parts leave a question open
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Full-height brushing of the flue with a head sized to its shape and material
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Assessment of the stack from roofline to crown, with a photo of each defect
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Measurement of each flue tile, or of the whole crown for a multi-flue cap
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Burner, pilot assembly and firebox cleaned; logs or media put back in the layout the manual shows
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Joints cut back to firm mortar and repointed (tuckpointing) to match the existing profile
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Stand-alone houses account for 66.6 percent of homes across the Census ZIP area that holds Arbor Heights, the highest share of any ZIP area on the peninsula. Wikipedia describes the neighborhood itself as almost exclusively zoned residential. A detached house usually means one owner deciding, over the decades, what the chimney vents: perhaps an oil furnace first, a gas one later, a wood insert added in the living room. Each decision left the flue the same size while the appliance changed.
Oil burners still warm 8.0 percent of lived-in homes within the Census ZIP area wrapped around Arbor Heights, against 2.9 percent for Seattle overall; no West Seattle ZIP area reports more. Utility gas heats 37.4 percent and electricity 53.0 percent. Wood as a primary fuel is reported by very few homes. The area extends beyond the city limit, so read these as a neighborhood-and-surroundings picture.
That mix tells us many houses here have switched fuels at some point, or will. When an oil furnace leaves and a gas appliance or heat pump arrives, the old flue may be left venting a water heater it is far too large for, or nothing at all. According to SDCI, a replacement furnace and its venting fall under a mechanical permit, while gas piping is permitted on its own. We look at the whole change, not just the chimney, and size the liner for what will actually be connected to it.
Every chimney relining we do in Arbor Heights includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowAn oversized flue is a cold flue. Exhaust slows, water vapor condenses on the tile walls, and the acidic moisture eats at the mortar between tiles. Add the wet half of the year, which WeatherSpark's Seattle profile stretches across six and a half months starting October 10, and the joints of a mismatched flue can stay damp for months at a time. A properly sized liner warms up fast and pushes the gases out before they condense.
The maker's data plate on the furnace, stove or insert sets the flue size. We match the liner to that number, not to the hole that happens to exist.
Length, diameter, grade, insulation, top plate and cap are listed separately. Material is ordered only after you approve.
Loose tile and soot are brushed out so the new liner slides down without tearing its insulation.
Working from the roof, we lower one unbroken length and join it at the base to the appliance outlet or the fireplace throat.
Top plate and cap are fixed to the crown, then the camera goes down a final time so you have a record of the finished job.
Arbor Heights School tracks the neighborhood's growth year by year in HistoryLink's account: opened in 1949 as an annex, enlarged in 1950, given an auditorium, lunchroom and gym in 1953, and twelve classrooms more in 1958. Where a house of that vintage has a masonry fireplace, its opening and flue were proportioned for an open wood fire.
Put a modern insert into one of those openings and the flue behind it is suddenly several times wider than the insert needs. The 2021 Seattle Mechanical Code asks that any insert carry a UL 1482 label and go in exactly as its maker directs; that manual is where the required flue connection is spelled out. A full-length liner from the insert collar to the crown is the usual way to meet them.
What this work is quoted at for Arbor Heights homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Arbor Heights | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Relining | From $1,900 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
| Chimney Cap Installation | $235–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Arbor Heights. The exact figure is set on site after a $99 inspection (credited toward the job if you go ahead), and you approve it before any work starts.
Arbor Heights is the southernmost part of West Seattle, south of SW Roxbury Street, annexed to Seattle in 1954, with mostly detached houses, about half of those in its ZIP code area built between 1940 and 1969. We work every part of it — Arroyo Heights, Seola Beach included.
Arbor HeightsKing County, WA · 47.509, -122.378
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Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
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Four steps, each one on paper — so you always know what happens next.
Choose a genuine opening on the crew's calendar. Confirmation is immediate.
Liner, crown, cap, flashing and masonry examined in order — each finding photographed.
One document, plain numbers, covering only the work your chimney genuinely needs.
The repair is completed, then handed over with before-and-after photos of every item.
From $1,900 for a short, straight run serving one appliance. Taller flues, bigger diameters and insulation increase it, and the quote names each item.
With a camera, never by guessing. That visit costs $99 plus tax per chimney, and if you go ahead with our relining quote the $99 is subtracted from it.
Possibly. None of the city pages we have read addresses liners by name, so the honest answer comes from SDCI itself: we put the question to them for your house ahead of the job and pass their reply along.
Not while its flue is open. Most liners go in within a day, and we plan the shutdown with you in advance.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
