How Flint Chimney Co Fort Worth Was Born in Fort Worth
Hank Delano spent years watching homeowners in Fort Worth get the same bad deal. A chimney sweep would show up late, poke around with a flashlight, and then hand over an invoice that had doubled since the phone call. The worst part wasn’t the price. It was that the work was often incomplete, and the homeowner had no way to know it until the first cold night when smoke backed into the living room.
Hank didn’t start this to chase a market. He saw the same pattern in Ridglea Hills, in Wedgwood, in the older brick homes off Camp Bowie: people wanted to do the right thing for their chimneys, but they kept running into companies that treated the job as a quick stop between other stops. When the opportunity came to bring Flint Chimney Sweep to Fort Worth, Hank knew exactly the kind of operation it had to be. Written prices before any work starts. Technicians who explain what they’re seeing in plain words. A site left clean enough that the homeowner wouldn’t know anyone had been there, except that the chimney was safe. That’s the bar, and it hasn’t moved.
Hank Delano’s Personal Connection to the Chimney Cleaning Trade
Hank’s first real exposure to chimney work came from a house he didn’t own and a fireplace that wouldn’t draw. A homeowner across town mentioned they’d had three companies out, and the smoke still rolled back into the room every time they lit a fire. Hank went up on the roof with a basic inspection mirror and found what three previous sweeps had missed: the flue had a partial blockage that was redirecting the draft. It wasn’t exotic. It was just a matter of actually looking, carefully, at the whole path from firebox to cap. That job took most of a Saturday, and by the end of it the fireplace pulled like it was new. The homeowner’s relief told Hank something he’s never forgotten. People don’t want a show. They want someone who will look closely, tell them the truth, and fix what’s actually wrong.
Over the years, the work has become personal in a way that surprised him. There’s a rhythm to it: the feel of the brush on the flue walls, the cold tang of creosote in the morning air, the particular weight of a properly seated cap. Hank still goes up on the roof when a job calls for it, and he still reaches into a firebox to check the damper by hand. What gets him out of bed is simple. A clean, safe chimney every time. Not most of the time, not when it’s convenient. Every time. If he weren’t doing this, he’d probably be restoring old houses, because the work is the same at its core: you look at what’s there, you understand how it was built, and you make it right without pretending it’s easy.
Meet Hank Delano – The Person Behind Every Job
Hank Delano is the Owner & Founder of Flint Chimney Co Fort Worth. He leads the local team that brought the Flint Chimney Sweep standard to this market. His background is in the trades, and his training covers the full range of chimney and fireplace work: sweeping, level-one and level-two inspections, cap and crown repair, and the honest assessment of liners and masonry. What sets Hank apart isn’t a patch on a uniform. It’s that he treats every chimney like it’s attached to a family he’ll see again at the grocery store.
Outside of work, Hank spends his time on projects that require patience: working on his truck, tending a smoker, and teaching himself the things that can’t be rushed. His commitment to Fort Worth customers is direct: if he wouldn’t be comfortable with the work in his own home, it doesn’t leave the yard.
Our Promise to Fort Worth Homeowners
Everything we do runs through The Garrison Code. It’s five commitments, and none of them are negotiable: show up inside the window we gave you, put the price in writing before any work starts, do the job by the book the first time, leave the site clean and squared away, and stand behind the work for a full year. That last one isn’t a slogan. If our work fails within a year, we come back and make it right at no charge.
The written price matters most to the people we meet. Nobody should discover a new number at the door. Before any tool comes off the truck, you’ll have the price for the sweep, the inspection, or the repair in front of you. If additional work appears during the job, we stop, we show you what we found, and we put the new scope in writing before any of it begins. That’s the discipline that keeps us honest, and it’s the same discipline we’d want if someone were working on our own home.
Our Credentials
- Licensed: Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license their state requires. No exceptions.
- Insured & bonded: Coverage is in place so that when we’re working in your home, the risk isn’t yours.
- Local experience: Years of hands-on work in Fort Worth’s older brick chimneys, where clay liners and Texas heat have done what they do.
- Strong local reputation: Built one clean flue at a time, on the strength of showing up and doing what we said we’d do.
- The Garrison Standard: The written guarantee that covers every job for a full year after completion.
Why these matter: when someone works in your home, they’re standing in your living room, walking past your family photos, and touching the place where your family gathers. A license means they’ve met the state’s bar to do the work. Insurance means a mistake doesn’t become your problem. And a written guarantee means the company has to stand behind what it did, not just say it will.
Rooted in Fort Worth
Flint Chimney Co Fort Worth works the whole Fort Worth side of the metro: North Richland Hills, Haltom City, Watauga, Southlake, Hurst, Crowley, Richland Hills, Everman, Sansom Park, River Oaks, and Lake Worth. These are neighborhoods with real fireplaces, real chimneys, and real Texas winters that show up without much warning. We know which homes near TCU were built with stone fireplaces that need a careful hand, and which flues in the older neighborhoods off Camp Bowie have seen decades of service. This is where we work, and it’s where the work means something.
Written by Hank Delano, Owner at Flint Chimney Co Fort Worth, serving Fort Worth and the surrounding communities.