The ordinary case: post-war housing, original clay tile, and forty winters of freeze-thaw.
Regular routes, no travel surcharge, firm price before anything starts.
Get a Free QuoteMost of the relining we do in Kalispell itself is not dramatic and not transaction-driven. It is the ordinary end of the town's housing stock reaching the end of a component's life at roughly the same time.
A large share of the homes here went up between the late forties and the seventies, with masonry chimneys lined in clay tile. That tile was correct then and it is still the right material. What it does not tolerate indefinitely is water arriving from above and freezing between the sections, and the Flathead delivers that on a daily cycle through a long shoulder season rather than in one deep winter freeze.
So we open a lot of flues in this town where nothing catastrophic has happened and the joints have simply worked open, a tile or two has split, and the chimney is quietly no longer doing the one thing a liner exists to do. The camera settles it in ten minutes.
| Job | Typical price |
|---|---|
| Insulated stainless liner, straight single flue | $1,800 - $3,200 |
| Crown repair done at the same visit | $400 - $900 |
| Tile breakout where the liner will not pass | +$600 - $1,400 |
| Camera run before and after | included |
More on how we do this on the Chimney Relining page, or see everything we cover in Kalispell.
If the crown is also gone - and on a chimney of this age it usually is - the order matters and it is not negotiable. Crown and flashing first, liner second. Line a flue while water is still arriving through a broken crown and the new liner is fine but the masonry around it keeps degrading, and you pay twice.
The reverse mistake is more common and more expensive. People seal the crown, assume the problem is solved, and leave cracked tile in place for another decade. Sealing stops new water. It repairs nothing that already split, and no coating applied from the roof reaches the inside of the flue.
Where both are needed we quote them as one job with two line items so you can see what each part costs, and we will tell you honestly if the liner can wait a season while the crown cannot.
Call or send the form and we'll come back with a firm number, usually the same day.