Factory-built fireplaces repaired with listed parts in Belle Isle

Mesh screens and screen rods

Many factory-built fireplaces carry a mesh screen hung on rods across the opening. In one maker's parts list, the screen rods and screens appear as numbered parts sized to each model.

Torn mesh, bent rods and missing rings let sparks through. We replace them with the listed parts for your model, which keeps the screen fitted to the opening it was made for.

• Torn or loose mesh
• Bent screen rods
• Missing rings
• A screen sized to the opening

Cleaning a round metal flue

The inner flue of a factory-built chimney is thin stainless steel, round and smooth. One maker's troubleshooting advice for a dirty or blocked chimney mentions a properly sized chimney brush, since the brush has to fit the round pipe it cleans.

During a prefab repair we note the condition of the flue and whether deposits are present. Cleaning is scheduled with a brush that fits your flue, and dents or damage found along the way go on the repair list.

Smoke detectors near a fireplace

One maker recommends installing smoke detectors and suggests placing one in a hallway next to the fireplace room, to reduce false activation from the heat of the appliance, while following any local code that requires one in the same room.

Detectors sit outside the fireplace itself, yet they belong on any list of checks before the season. We remind you of them when we finish a repair.

• One in the hallway next to the fireplace room
• Any detector your local code requires in the room itself
• Regular testing

Birds and animals in a metal chimney

A metal chimney with a damaged or missing termination screen can take in birds, squirrels and nesting material. Nests in a narrow round flue block the smoke path quickly.

Animal removal is its own service, and we schedule it first when an animal is present. Afterward, the prefab repair replaces the damaged termination with the listed part so the flue stays closed to wildlife.

• Animal removal scheduled first
• Nesting material cleared
• Termination replaced with the listed part
• Pipe below checked for damage