Prefab fireplace replacement and new installs in Lockwood
From a blank wall to a working wood fire in Lockwood, planned around your room, your roof and your budget.
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The route, the framing and the hearth, checked in Lockwood
A fireplace location works or it does not. These checks decide it, written down before anything is ordered.
- Masonry footing, firebox and hearth to code
- Old fireplace and chimney removed and hauled away
- Permit and inspection timing planned in
- Your 10% off for booking within 72 hours, written on the estimate
Fireplace installation, explained by our Lockwood team
Three parts of the job our fireplace specialists walk through with Lockwood homeowners.
Firebox walls in a masonry fireplace
Section R1001.5 says masonry fireboxes shall be built of solid masonry units, hollow units grouted solid, stone or concrete. Where a firebrick lining at least 2 inches thick is used, the back and side walls must each be at least 8 inches of solid masonry, including the lining.
Those walls separate the fire from the framing of the house. When we plan a masonry fireplace, the firebox is drawn to the code's minimums first, and any design wish is fitted around them.
Handling ashes safely
Ashes can hold live coals for days after a fire looks dead. They go into a metal can with a snug lid, placed on a noncombustible surface far from the house and from anything that burns, and the lid stays on until the last ember is cold.
We point out a safe spot for that container before we leave. A paper bag, a plastic bin or a corner of the garage is never the place, however cold the ashes feel.
Access for service after the wall is finished
A fireplace needs service over its life: doors adjusted, the damper checked, a blower replaced where one is fitted and the chimney swept from the top. Some of those jobs need access that a heavy stone face or a built-in cabinet can block.
We keep the access the manual calls for when the face, the surround and any built-ins are planned. A future repair should start with a screwdriver rather than a hammer, and planning for it now costs almost nothing.
The outside air inlet on the wall
An outside air kit ends in an inlet on an exterior wall, covered with a screen that keeps animals, leaves and insects out of the duct. The inlet's position follows the manual's limits on duct length and bends and the code's rules about where combustion air may come from.
We show you where the inlet will sit and how it will look from the yard before the duct is run, and we keep it away from a garage, dryer vents and anything else that exhausts air. It is a small grille, and it should look like it belongs on the wall.
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Answers on adding a fireplace for Lockwood households
Honest answers from our Lockwood fireplace specialists, no pressure attached.
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.
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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