Antique fireplace restoration in College Park
One family-owned team inspects, restores and hands back your fireplace in College Park, with a workmanship warranty on our work.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
Checked during your free visit in College Park
These checks keep a restoration in College Park from covering a problem it cannot fix.
- Fireplace type and your goal for its use
- Damper operation, fit and seal
- Hearth and hearth extension condition
- Model, label and listed parts on factory-built units
Restoration know-how from our College Park team
Each point below shapes the restoration we recommend in College Park and appears in your written scope.
A fireplace that has sat unused for years
Years without a fire leave their own marks. Debris collects on the smoke shelf, a damper plate rusts in place, nesting material drops into the firebox and small cracks go unnoticed because nobody is looking. None of that shows from the sofa, so a long-idle fireplace is treated as unknown until it is checked.
We open the damper slowly, clear what has fallen in and inspect the firebox, smoke chamber and flue before recommending anything. Your estimate for the home in College Park then separates what the idle years caused from anything older.
Open joints between firebricks
The Florida Building Code limits joints between firebricks to 1/4 inch and calls for medium-duty refractory mortar meeting ASTM C199 to lay them. Years of heating and cooling erode those thin joints until gaps run straight through the lining.
We rake out failed joints and repoint them with refractory mortar made for firebox heat. On a restoration in College Park, open joints are one of the first things we check, since they are a modest repair while the brick around them is still sound.
Replacement firebrick that meets the code
Firebrick for a masonry fireplace must meet ASTM C27 or ASTM C1261, and a firebrick lining must be at least 2 inches thick under the Florida Building Code. Replacement brick is chosen to match the existing lining in size and thickness so the new section sits flush.
Where a whole panel of the firebox needs new brick, it is laid with joints no wider than the code allows. Our College Park estimate marks the areas of lining to be replaced, so you can see how much of the original firebox stays.
Sealers and coatings on fireplace brick
Clear coatings sold for brick change how the surface looks and how it handles moisture. Inside a firebox, a coating has no place in a proper firebrick lining.
We do not seal a restored firebox. On the room-side face, we explain what a coating would change before anyone applies one, and we recommend leaving sound brick alone when there is no problem to solve.
Other work in College Park
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What College Park homeowners ask about old fireplaces
Short answers from the technicians who restore fireplaces in College Park.
Do you check the chimney too?
Yes. The flue above the fireplace is cleaned and checked as part of the restoration. Anything that needs repair up there is listed separately with its own explanation.
Is the restoration work guaranteed?
Our workmanship warranty covers the repairs we carry out, and our 100% satisfaction guarantee means we come back to make things right. Old parts left in place at your request are noted separately.
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- Free inspection
- No hidden fees
- Family owned and operated
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