Old fireplace restoration for Crown Point homes
Our pros tell you what your Crown Point fireplace needs for safe use and what is only about looks, before any work starts.
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Before any restoration work starts in Crown Point
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- Flue cleaning and check above the fireplace
- Mantel and trim distance from the opening
- Model, label and listed parts on factory-built units
- Written restoration record at handover
What goes into restoring a fireplace in Crown Point
Three parts of the job our fireplace pros explain to homeowners in Crown Point before work starts.
Parging the smoke chamber
The smoke chamber is the tapered space above the damper that leads into the flue. Under the Florida Building Code, its inside surface is parged smooth with refractory mortar. Many older chambers were left with stepped brick that catches soot and slows the draft.
Where parging is rough, cracked or missing, we clean the chamber and apply new refractory parging to a smooth finish. You will never see this work from the room, yet it shapes how the restored fireplace draws, and the estimate describes it in plain words.
A hearth extension that is too small
The code sets minimum sizes for a masonry hearth extension. Its depth in front of the opening is 16 inches at minimum and it laps past each side by 8 inches, rising to 20 inches deep and 12 inches past each side for openings of 6 square feet or more.
Older hearths and remodeled floors do not always meet those numbers. We measure yours and tell you whether wood flooring or carpet sits too close. Extending a hearth changes the floor, so the options are explained before anything is priced for your Crown Point home.
Loose tiles on the hearth
Tiles on a hearth extension crack and come loose when the bed under them fails or when heavy logs are dropped on them. A loose tile rocks underfoot, and a gap beneath it lets embers reach the setting bed.
We lift loose tiles, check the base and reset them on a suitable noncombustible bed. When a matching tile cannot be found, you hear about it before anything is removed, so the choice between patching and retiling stays yours.
Acid cleaners and fireplace brick
Strong acid strips stains and mortar smears quickly, and it damages brick just as quickly. Brick Industry Association guidance warns that improperly mixed or overly strong acid can etch brick, eat into mortar and leave lighter brick with a burned look.
Acid is used only when a test area shows it is safe for the brick and mortar in question, mixed to the product maker's directions and rinsed thoroughly. Most soot cleaning on a fireplace face never needs it.
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Quick answers on restoration in Crown Point
If yours is not here, call and our Crown Point team will answer it.
Do you protect the room while you work?
Yes. Floors and nearby furniture are covered, dust control is set up and the room is tidied at the end of each day. Tell us about anything fragile near the fireplace before we start.
Will the restored fireplace be ready for wood fires?
Yes, when the firebox, damper, smoke chamber and flue all check out. If any part cannot be confirmed, you hear what is missing before the fireplace is called ready for fires.
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