Sweep & inspection
Caps & crowns
Flue relining
Masonry repair
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 Sweep Across Manor
A chimney sweep in Manor, TX typically costs $189 – $325 for a standard cleaning and Level 1 inspection, depending on flue condition and access. Most Manor homes take 60 to 90 minutes. We book sweeps throughout 78653 five days a week, and we’re familiar with the split this town throws at us: brand-new factory-built flues that have never seen a fire, and mid-century masonry stacks on the old ranch lots that have seen decades of them. Call (877) 644-8036 for a straight answer on what your chimney actually needs.
Why Resolute Chimney Sweep Is Manor’s Preferred Chimney Sweep Company
Our Chimney Sweep team works Manor because the housing stock here demands someone who refuses to guess. The new subdivisions along the US-290 corridor are full of factory-built chimneys left uncapped by the builder. The older ranches off Parsons Road and around Blue Bluff have clay-tile flues that are spalling after fifty Central Texas summers. We see both every week, and we run a camera before we recommend anything. That’s the whole difference. Brent Calloway built the company on a rule most sweeps won’t commit to: if we can’t show you the footage, we don’t write the quote.
Manor homeowners call after they’ve been told by another company that their flue needs a full reline, often sight-unseen. We get a lot of second-opinion calls from the new construction around the Manor ISD side of town too, where a builder never capped the chimney and now there’s a wasp nest the size of a football inside. The reviews from our Manor customers mention two things more than anything: we show up when we say we will, and we show them the camera. That’s the reputation we want in Manor.
Styles & brands we work with
Chimney Maintenance in Manor
Chimney Maintenance in Manor is not a glossy upsell package; it is the difference between a fireplace that vents to the roof and one that vents into the living room. We inspect, clean what needs cleaning, and tell you plainly when nothing needs to be done. A maintenance visit in Manor runs $149 – $229 when paired with a sweep. This is where we catch the slow failures: hairline cracks in a clay tile, a damper rusted open, a chase cover leaking onto a factory-built box. When a home sat through the humid stretch from May to September and you lit the first fire in November, the creosote had all summer to cure. That’s what you’re actually cleaning off.
What a maintenance visit covers
The visit is a full look at the flue interior, the smoke chamber, the damper assembly, and the cap. If you haven’t capped the flue, we’ll talk about that specifically. In Manor, the uncapped flue is the most common entry point for birds, wasps, and rain-soaked mortar damage on both masonry and factory-built systems. A cap is cheap compared to what the water does once it gets in.
When Manor homes need it
Every 12 months if you burn more than a cord of wood per season. Every 18 – 24 months for gas logs and decorative fireplaces that get lit a dozen times a year. The gas log fireplace still builds a film inside the flue, and the decorative fireplace that never burns is still a chimney. It’s just full of whatever the last owner never cleaned either.
Chimney Sweep Services in Manor
Chimney Sweep Services in Manor mean physically removing creosote, soot, and animal debris from the flue and firebox, then running an inspection that tells you whether the system is safe to use. A standard open-face masonry sweep in Manor runs $189 – $259. A sweep on a factory-built prefab unit runs $210 – $285, because we’re working with the metal flue and chase. If you’ve never had the chimney cleaned since moving in, plan on the higher end. Years of hardened creosote takes longer than seasonal dusting.
Sweeping older masonry fireplaces
The ranch homes around Manor’s older rural lots often have brick fireplaces built in the 1970s and 1980s. Most still have their original clay-tile flue. That tile cracks over time, and we don’t find it by scraping blindly. We find it with a Level 2 camera inspection after the sweep, so you can see the crack before you spend a dollar on a repair. If the clay tile is intact, you don’t need a liner. That’s where a lot of Manor homeowners get taken for a ride by companies that quote a reline without ever looking.
Sweeping new factory-built fireplaces
In the new construction along the 290 corridor, we’re usually sweeping flues that have never had a fire in them. The builder left them uncapped, so the “sweep” is really a nest removal, a flue cleaning, and a cap install. Many of those boxes have their first fire when the homeowner finally decides to use the fireplace three years after closing. If that’s your house, get the flue looked at before you light it. That brand-new chimney is only clean if nothing’s been living in it.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees — you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Manor
When Manor homeowners need something repaired, we install what we’d put on our own flues. That means DuraFlex flexible liner systems when a chimney truly needs relining, and HeatShield resurfacing when a clay-tile flue is cracked but the stack is structurally sound enough to save. We stock these lines for Manor service calls because buying from a real chimney supply channel means we can get the right parts fast, and we’re not matching whatever a big-box shelf happened to have. You shouldn’t be gambling on the flue that vents heat out of your house. We stock DuraFlex, HeatShield, and Copperfield components in our Georgetown warehouse and bring them straight to Manor.
See the difference
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AfterCommon Chimney Sweep Problems We See in Manor Homes
- Uncapped factory-built chimneys packed with nests. The new subdivisions along US-290 are full of them. Builders often skip the cap, and by the time we get there, a chimney that’s never seen a fire is a bird condo.
- Cracked and spalling clay-tile flues in old ranch homes. Mid-century masonry stacks around the rural lots off Blue Bluff and Parsons Road took fifty years of heat and humidity. The tile cracks. The joints fail. It shows up on camera.
- Gas water heaters vented into fireplace stacks. We see this constantly in older Manor homes where someone added a gas appliance and tied it into a flue sized only for fireplace smoke. The draft is wrong. The spillage is real. It gets misdiagnosed as a dirty flue all the time.
- Hardened creosote from seasonal use. The hot, humid Central Texas summer gives creosote months to bake onto flue walls. When Manor gets a hard freeze and everyone lights their first fire in December, that glazed creosote is a fire risk, not a dusting job.
Pricing for Chimney Sweep in Manor, TX
A standard chimney sweep in Manor runs $189 – $285 for most homes. Factor in these line items:
- Standard masonry sweep with Level 1 inspection: $189 – $259
- Factory-built prefab fireplace sweep: $210 – $285
- Level 2 camera inspection (when we need to see the whole flue): $150 – $250
- Chimney cap supply and install on an uncapped flue: $85 – $225 depending on flue size and material
- HeatShield or DuraFlex relining work: quoted only after we run the camera and show you why it’s needed
The two things that move the price in Manor are flue type and debris load. A rarely-used decorative fireplace full of nests costs more than a clean, regularly-used one. We give a free estimate before any work starts, and we never add scope without walking you through what the camera shows. Call (877) 644-8036 to set up a sweep.
We Also Serve Cities Near Manor
Our trucks run from Georgetown through Hornsby Bend, Pflugerville, Elgin, and Windemere every week. If you’re just outside Chimney Sweep in Manor proper but still in the 78653 coverage area, the scheduling works the same and the price doesn’t change based on the city line.
Serving Manor, TX — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Manor 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 Sweep in Manor
Yes, if the chimney has never been inspected since the builder finished it. In Manor’s new subdivisions, the builders frequently leave the factory-built chimney uncapped, which means birds, wasps, and weather have had open access to the flue. If the house is a few years old and the fireplace has never been used, you likely have a nest or at minimum heavy debris in there. The sweep isn’t about removing creosote you never created. It’s about making sure you can light your first fire without burning through whatever moved in. Call (877) 644-8036 and we’ll get it checked before the colder nights hit.
Because we don’t recommend a liner unless we can show you camera footage of the cracked tile, the spalling clay, or the deteriorated mortar joint. That’s the rule Brent Calloway set. On a ranch property off a large rural lot in 78653, our tech pulled a camera through a mid-century brick fireplace and found the original clay-tile flue cracked and spalling, with a gas water heater vented into the same stack. We showed the homeowner the camera footage of the cracked tile before recommending a HeatShield liner relining sized for both the firebox and the appliance, then swept the smoke chamber and set a new damper. No upsell beyond what the footage proved. If a different company tells you your Manor chimney needs a full reline and they never put a camera in it, get a second opinion.
Very likely yes. A fireplace stack is sized for fireplace smoke, not for a continuously-venting gas appliance. When both share a flue, the draft gets disrupted and you can end up with carbon monoxide spillage back into the house or back down the fireplace. This is the single most misdiagnosed issue we see in older Manor ranch homes. A company that just sweeps the flue and calls it done is treating a symptom. We run the camera, measure the flue, and tell you whether the appliance needs its own properly-sized liner or whether the current setup can be corrected. If your house has this configuration, get it inspected before you use the fireplace or the water heater heavily again. Call (877) 644-8036 for an estimate.
A Level 1 inspection is the visual check we do during a standard sweep: firebox, damper, accessible flue, cap. A Level 2 inspection adds a camera run through the entire flue and is required when you’re buying or selling a home, after a chimney fire, or when the system hasn’t been used in years. In Manor, most older ranch homes should get a Level 2 the first time we come out, because the flue has likely never been camera-inspected and the clay tile is the part that fails silently. If you’re in a newer house and just want the uncapped chimney cleaned and capped, a Level 1 plus a nest removal is usually enough. We’ll tell you which one fits after we see the setup.
Because Manor’s hot, humid summers and occasional hard freezes do more damage to an uncapped flue than the fireplace ever does. The humidity gets into the mortar and concrete crown, the rain pools in the smoke chamber, and the animals move in during the long stretches when nobody’s burning. A cap keeps most of that out. It’s the cheapest structural protection a Manor chimney can get, and we install them on the same visit as a sweep in almost every case. Ask us about it when we’re out there.
Written by Brent Calloway, Owner at Resolute Chimney Sweep, serving Manor since the company’s first season.