New fireplace installation, planned for your Alafaya home
Wood-burning fireplaces installed in Alafaya by a family-owned team that treats your home like its own.
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Chimney, hearth and face items for Alafaya fireplace jobs
Every point below is checked against the fireplace manual or the code chapter that applies, then priced as its own line.
- Chimney route checked for offsets and elbows
- Roof height set by the ten-foot rule
- Old fireplace and chimney removed and hauled away
- Electrical work by an electrician, listed separately
What decides where a fireplace can go in Alafaya
A closer look at the chimney route, the hearth and the face in Alafaya.
No single-wall pipe inside a chase
Single-wall pipe has no place inside a chase. One maker's manual warns never to install single-wall slip sections or smoke pipe in a chase structure, because the higher temperature of single-wall pipe may radiate enough heat to combustible chase materials to cause a fire.
Every section inside the chase is the listed chimney pipe for the fireplace. When we replace an old installation and find single-wall pipe in a chase, we show you, because it changes what the replacement has to include.
Keeping framing away from masonry
Masonry stores heat and passes it outward over a long fire, so framing keeps its distance. Under section R1001.11, wood beams, joists, studs and other combustible material keep a gap of 2 inches or more at the front and sides of a masonry fireplace and 4 inches or more behind it.
We frame around a masonry fireplace with those gaps in mind and check them before the walls close. Framing pushed tight against the brick is one of the defects a careful installation avoids from the start.
Counting chimney sections before ordering
A factory-built chimney is ordered as a parts list: straight sections, any offsets and their straps, a firestop for each floor or ceiling, an attic shield, the roof parts, a storm collar and the listed cap. The count comes from floor heights, attic depth, roof pitch and the ten-foot rule.
We measure each of those at the planning visit and build the list from them, with a little margin where the manual allows. That way the crew arrives with the right chimney for your house and no second trip to the supplier.
Fireplaces that open to two rooms
Some factory-built fireplaces are made to be seen from both sides or to divide two rooms. They carry their own listings, framing and clearance rules, and they tend to be more sensitive to air movement in the house because both faces are open.
When a see-through model is on your list, we read its manual with particular care and look at where doors, stairs and return grilles sit on both sides. Placement matters even more with two openings than with one.
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Asked by Alafaya homeowners before a fireplace goes in
Answered by the family-owned team that builds fireplaces in Alafaya.
Is a masonry fireplace better than a factory-built one?
Neither is automatically better. Masonry is heavier, needs a footing and takes longer to build; factory-built frames in faster and lighter. We lay out the trade-offs for your house and recommend the one that suits it.
Do you remove the old fireplace?
Yes, when it is part of the scope. We open the face, remove the chimney from the roof down, slide out the old firebox and haul it away, then install and finish the new system.
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