Anvil & Oak Chimney Co. · Coldwater Flats · painted on the shop wall since 1988
SWEEP $189. SCAN $329. CARD INCLUDED.
The prices are on the wall of the shop and they are the prices on the invoice — no estimates, no site-visit fees, no arithmetic with a tape measure. Second flue $95, caps from $210 fitted, and the camera goes down the flue before anybody so much as says the word reline.
One card, written at the kitchen table · creosote grade and draft reading on every invoice · thirty-seven seasons off the same wall
The Sweep
$189per flue, annual
- Full brush on HEPA extraction
- Level 1 inspection, twenty-one points
- Smoke test and draft reading
- The written card, graded and dated
The NFPA 211 annual. Most visits run under two hours.
The Scan
$329Level 2, camera
- Every foot of flue on video
- The footage is yours to keep
- Cracks measured, not guessed
- Report written for sales and insurers
Required at any sale, fuel change or flue fire.
The Look
$95credited to work
- Roof-level masonry check
- Crown, cap and joint photographs
- Tuckpoint price on the spot
- Repair slots inside the fortnight
The fee comes off any masonry work booked.
The small print is still on the wall
Off the wall, the rest of it
The three prices above are the front of the wall. The side of the wall carries everything a visit can turn into — same rule, same paint: the number there is the number on the invoice, and if the camera finds work the wall does not cover, that is a separate price you approve before it happens.
The side of the wall
Second flue, same visit$95
The full treatment, discounted for the parked van
Stainless mesh cap, fittedfrom $210
Screwed down, never wired on
Damper plate, re-seated$140
Cleaned, freed, seated flat, handle where gone
Top-sealing damper$660
Closes at the top, cap included
Crown rebuildfrom $680
To sound masonry, poured with a drip edge
Rigid 316Ti reline$2,400–3,600
Insulated, terminated, draw-tested — quoted only from footage
How a booking runs
Slot to first fire
Same shape every time — the slot inside the week, the card at the end of the visit, the price off the wall throughout.
The call
Ten minutes: house, hearth, fuel, last look. A slot named, a wall price quoted, both confirmed by message.
The slot
Sheets down, HEPA on, brush and camera as booked. You watch the flue walls on the monitor — described to nobody, shown to everybody.
The card
Grade, readings, findings, price — written before the sheets come up. If it is clean, it says so in one line and we leave.
The fire
Smoke-tested before we pack. If the card said yes, the first fire of the season is yours the same evening.
Two outfits quoted the reline by phone — four figures each, sight unseen. Anvil & Oak booked the $329 scan, put the camera down, and found one cracked tile at the thimble and a damper plate rusted open since the eighties. Tile, plate, cap: under seven hundred, done in a morning, footage on a thumbdrive. The wall price was the invoice price, which around here counts as a personality trait.
Coldwater Flats & district, 2025 — 2026
The wall, in the wild
Six jobs from the wall book, photographed the day they finished. The card in each picture is the copy the household kept.
I asked for “the $189 thing” on the phone and braced for the upsell. Got the $189 thing. Card said first degree, damper seated for the $140 on the wall, invoice read like the wall reads. I have told the entire street.
The scan video paid for itself in the first minute — you can see the cracked tile plain as day, and plainer still that everything above it is fine. Two neighbours had been quoted full relines by a firm that never opened a camera.
Booked the $95 Look before re-pointing quotes from anyone else. Photographs of every joint, a price off the wall before he came down the ladder, and the $95 came off the job when we said go. That is how my grandad bought work and I had forgotten.
Before you call
Wall questions
The five the shop phone answers between slots. Anything else, the slot line runs seven to five and quotes off the wall on the first call.
Is $189 honestly the whole sweep?
Brush, HEPA, the twenty-one-point Level 1 look, smoke test, draft reading and the written card — per flue. Second flues on the same house run $95. Anything the camera finds beyond the wall is a separate price you approve in advance, never a surprise riding on the invoice.
When do I need the $329 scan?
Any sale, any fuel or appliance change, after any flue fire, and before believing a reline quote — ours included. It is the only way anyone sees the parts of a chimney no lamp reaches, and the video travels with the house after.
How much creosote is too much?
An eighth of an inch of flaky first degree brushes out and is called a season. Shiny second-degree plates get the rotary head. Glazed third degree is chimney-fire fuel and gets chemical treatment with a camera follow-up. The card names which yours is, in plain words.
Why is the Look only $95?
Because it is an hour off a ladder with a camera, not a sales appointment — and because the photographs sell the pointing work honestly or not at all. The $95 comes off any masonry booked, so the look is free to anyone actually maintaining a chimney.
What if the wall price turns out wrong?
It has not yet, because the wall was painted by the people doing the work. If a job genuinely is not on the wall — a rebuild, a listed oddity — you get a written price before anything is touched, and the wall rule follows it: the number agreed is the number invoiced.
Slots inside the week, September to May · (555) 049-5517 · wall@anviloakchimney.example
Take a number off the wall
Tell us the house and the hearth and the slot line names a day with a wall price attached. The sweep is $189, the scan is $329 with the footage yours, and both prices survive contact with the invoice. wall@anviloakchimney.example