Factory-built and masonry fireplaces installed in Dover Manor
Local experts in Dover Manor who tell you which wall works before you fall in love with the wrong one. The first visit is free.
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Before any fireplace is ordered for your Dover Manor home
The room, the attic and the roof are measured in person in Dover Manor, and each result lands on your estimate.
- Fireplace model and placement agreed against the manual
- Mantel line marked from the manual
- Manual, model and chimney parts list left with you
- Your 10% off for booking within 72 hours, written on the estimate
A fireplace installation in Dover Manor, start to finish
Each point below turns into a line on your written estimate in Dover Manor.
The hearth of a masonry fireplace
Section R1001.9 has masonry fireplace hearths and hearth extensions made of concrete or masonry, carried on noncombustible supports and reinforced for their own weight along with every load put on them. Section R1001.9.1 sets the minimum hearth thickness at 4 inches.
The hearth under the fire and the extension out front carry weight, so they are structure first and decoration second. We plan the support below them before choosing the finish stone on top, and we make sure the floor framing around the hearth is kept the required distance from the masonry.
How you use the room decides the fireplace
A fireplace for a few cool evenings a year and one meant to warm the room through a long evening call for different sizes, placements and accessories. So does a fireplace that has to share a wall with a television, a window or a built-in bookcase.
Our specialists ask how the room is really used before recommending a model or a spot. The answers shape the plan more than any showroom display does, and they often point to a smaller, simpler fireplace than the one people first picture.
Sequencing the fireplace with other trades
A new fireplace touches framing, roofing, electrical work, drywall, tile or stone and paint. The fireplace steps have to fall in the right order, so air spaces, firestops and inspections are not buried by the next trade before anyone has looked at them.
We set that order at the planning stage and share the manual's clearance and finish rules with the other trades on the job. When everyone works from the same manual, the finished wall meets the listing without anything being torn back out.
A fireplace set across a corner
A corner fireplace saves floor space and can face the seating well, but it changes the framing. The unit sits in a triangular cavity, the hearth extension angles out into the room and the chimney route above has to clear the corner framing.
The manual shows corner framing for models that allow it. We frame to that drawing, check the air space at the back corners and make sure the hearth extension still reaches where the listing requires.
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New fireplace questions, answered for Dover Manor
Undecided? These help, and the fireplace visit in Dover Manor costs nothing.
Can the fireplace go in a corner or inside a chase outside the wall?
Often it can. A factory-built fireplace may stand along a wall, across a corner, between two rooms or in an exterior chase, and one manual we use draws the framing for each. Every spot changes the chimney route and the hearth, so we sketch the choices for your room at the free inspection.
How large must the hearth in front of a factory-built fireplace be?
Section R1004.2 hands that decision to the fireplace listing, so the manual sets the size and the material. Embers land there when a log rolls, which is why we build it to the manual, face it in the noncombustible finish you choose and point out its edges before the rugs go back.
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