Fireplace installation and prefab replacement by local pros in Lake Eola Heights
Local experts in Lake Eola Heights who tell you which wall works before you fall in love with the wrong one. The first visit is free.
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What the fireplace plan for your Lake Eola Heights home includes
Checked once, carefully, so framing day in Lake Eola Heights starts on a settled plan.
- Roof height set by the ten-foot rule
- Glass doors and screen from the approved list
- Masonry footing, firebox and hearth to code
- Your 10% off for booking within 72 hours, written on the estimate
The chimney, the framing and the fire, for Lake Eola Heights homes
What our installers look for, and why it matters, on Lake Eola Heights fireplace jobs.
Plan the outside air kit on day one
An outside air kit brings combustion air from outdoors to the firebox through a listed duct. The E-series manual notes that optional parts can be added later, with one exception: adding an outside air kit after the fact requires significant reconstruction, so it should go in during the initial installation.
That is why outside air is decided at the planning stage, well before the drywall is finished. We show you where the duct would run, where the inlet would sit on the outside wall and how it ties into the framing, before any wall is closed.
The hearth extension for a factory-built unit
Section R1004.2 says hearth extensions of approved factory-built fireplaces shall be installed in accordance with the listing of the fireplace. The manual sets the size and material, and some makers sell a hearth extension piece tested with the unit.
The hearth extension is where embers land when a log shifts, so its size is not a styling choice. We build or place it to the manual, finish it in noncombustible material you choose and show you its edges before rugs and furniture go back.
A television above a wood fireplace
Heat from a wood fire rises past the mantel to whatever hangs on the wall above it. Fireplace manuals set clearances for combustible mantels and trim, while a television has heat limits set by its own maker, and the two sets of rules are separate.
When a screen is planned above the opening, we show you the manual's mantel line and explain how warm air travels up the wall. Sometimes the answer is a deeper mantel, sometimes a different mounting height, and sometimes the television belongs on another wall.
Replacing a factory-built unit behind a brick or stone face
Some houses have a factory-built fireplace dressed in brick or stone so it looks like masonry. Replacing it means working through that facing, and the new unit's manual decides what may cover its face and how close.
We explain what has to come off, what can be reused and how the new face will look before the old facing is touched. Sometimes most of the stone can stay; sometimes the new unit's framing means starting fresh. You know which before the work is priced.
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New fireplace questions, answered for Lake Eola Heights
Undecided? These help, and the fireplace visit in Lake Eola Heights costs nothing.
Is a smell during the first few fires normal?
For a short while, yes. The early fires cure the paint and the materials inside the firebox, and most manuals ask for a run of smaller fires first. We light the first one with you, watch the draft with the doors open and shut, and suggest a window open while the curing finishes.
Does an addition with a fireplace need a carbon monoxide alarm?
Under Florida Statutes section 553.885, a new building or addition with a fireplace gets an approved, working carbon monoxide alarm no more than 10 feet from each bedroom, or wherever the building code places it. We raise it while planning and price the alarm work on its own line.
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