Fauntleroy, King County
Relining gives an old flue a new inner wall. Our floor price in Fauntleroy is $1,900, which buys stainless steel from firebox to cap. Above that floor three things move the number: how many feet of flue there are, whether it runs straight, and how much broken tile must be pulled before metal can go in. We never price it blind. The quote is written from camera footage of your own chimney, so you can see the reason for every line.
Typical investment
From $1,900
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Fauntleroy 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.
The flues that need this are usually the older ones, and Fauntleroy has plenty of candidates. Seattle Parks puts the neighborhood's first permanent homes in 1907 and its major growth after World War II. In the Census ZIP code area around it, a fifth of the homes were built between 1940 and 1959, and three in ten are older than 1940. A clay tile liner from either period has been through decades of wet winters. We do not claim to know what is inside a given chimney until we have filmed it, and some flues of that age turn out to have no liner at all.
The Seattle Landslide Study describes its 47th Avenue SW area, around Maplewood Place SW, as a steep slope facing west-southwest toward the Sound, with 21 recorded landslides since 1955, 19 of them shallow. By the same account, real building there only got going in the 1960s. HistoryLink's account agrees on the timing: by the 1950s homebuilding had spread onto the hillsides above Fauntleroy Cove.
A house set into such a slope often has a daylight level on its low side, and a fireplace down there sits under more flue than one on the main floor. Liner is bought by the foot, so that height is the first number on a relining quote. The slope also decides how the coil reaches the chimney top and whether staging is needed on the water side. We measure both during the inspection, before any price is given.
Every chimney relining we do in Fauntleroy includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowA liner fails in three ways. Tiles crack from heat or from movement. The mortar between tile sections washes out and leaves gaps. Or the appliance changes: a gas insert or a new stove is hooked to a flue sized long ago for open flames, far too wide for the cooler exhaust it now carries. Washington's residential code lists what an acceptable liner is made of, from clay tile to listed stainless systems, and we install to the listing of the product, not to habit.
Length, cross-section and every bend are taken from the inspection footage and matched to what the appliance needs.
The flue is swept and any tile that would snag or crush the liner is broken out and removed.
The liner is lowered in one continuous length, insulated, and fixed to a new plate at the top of the stack.
The lower end is joined to the appliance or the smoke chamber, then the whole run is filmed again for your records.
In 2015 FEMA published guidance for masonry chimneys hurt by earthquakes. It singles out which stacks tend to fall: old ones, unreinforced, their mortar gone soft. It warns that rebuilding like for like leaves the same weakness in place, and among its options it lists keeping the fireplace while running a metal flue or fitting an insert. EERI engineers who toured the region after Nisqually in 2001 wrote that timber-framed homes came through in good shape, the chimney being the usual casualty.
Steel tubing inside a flue adds no strength to the brick around it, and nobody here will pitch it that way. It does keep heat and gases inside a continuous metal tube when the clay around it has cracked, which is the failure a shaken flue tends to have. Where the footage shows a stack that has moved, we say so and discuss the masonry before any liner goes in.
What this work is quoted at for Fauntleroy homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Fauntleroy | 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 Fauntleroy. 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.
Fauntleroy is a cove neighborhood in the southwest corner of Seattle that began as a summer colony in 1904, on Fauntleroy Cove, with permanent homes that go back to 1907 and hillsides that filled in after World War II. We work every part of it — Endolyne included.
FauntleroyKing County, WA · 47.523, -122.394
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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.
We do not state a rule, because no city page open to us spells out whether a liner needs one. Ahead of the work we put the permit question to SDCI, for your address and this exact scope.
No. Filming costs $99 plus tax; say yes to our liner quote and the invoice drops by that same $99.
Most single flues are relined in a day. A tall stack or heavy tile removal can carry the work into a second day.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
