New fireplace installation, planned for your Kingswood Manor home
Factory-built or masonry, installed in Kingswood Manor to Florida Residential Code chapter 10, with a workmanship warranty on our work.
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Every item on your Kingswood Manor fireplace estimate
Our family-owned crew measures, notes and explains each point in plain words at your Kingswood Manor home.
- Listed chimney sections, firestops and attic shield
- Air space kept around the fireplace and chimney
- Mantel line marked from the manual
- Masonry footing, firebox and hearth to code
What a new fireplace asks of your Kingswood Manor home
How the manual, the code and your house shape the plan in Kingswood Manor.
Air space around the fireplace body
The same manual requires a minimum air clearance at the back and sides of the fireplace assembly, maintained between the fireplace and its enclosure. That air space is part of how the unit keeps its outer casing and the framing around it within tested temperatures.
We keep that gap open during framing and finishing, and we make sure drywall scraps, insulation and wiring do not end up in it. It is invisible once the wall is closed, which is exactly why it has to be right before the wall is closed.
Framing that carries the chimney
A tall chimney and its parts add weight at points the original framing may not have planned for. Section R1005.5 says that where factory-built chimneys are supported by structural members such as joists and rafters, those members shall be designed to support the additional load.
We identify where the chimney will bear and whether support straps or framing additions are needed. Where a structural question goes beyond our scope, it is flagged in writing for the right professional before the roof is opened.
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.
Fireplaces in new construction and additions
In a new home or an addition, the fireplace is planned with the framing from the start. That is the easiest time to route a chimney between floors, run an outside air duct and set a hearth on proper support, and the state's alarm rule for new construction with a fireplace applies.
We work from the drawings with the builder, so the fireplace, its chimney and its inspections fit the framing schedule. Changes made on paper cost far less than changes made after the trusses are set.
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Fireplace questions Kingswood Manor homeowners ask next
What people in Kingswood Manor ask us before a fireplace is ordered.
What happens where the chimney passes through attic insulation?
Section R1005.8 calls for a steel insulation shield at least 0.0187 inch thick wherever a factory-built chimney crosses insulated space, so the insulation stays off the pipe. We fit the shield listed for your chimney system and check the insulation around it before we leave the attic.
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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