Fireplace restoration with a free inspection in Lorna Doone
One family-owned team inspects, restores and hands back your fireplace in Lorna Doone, with a workmanship warranty on our work.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
Checked during your free visit in Lorna Doone
These checks keep a restoration in Lorna Doone from covering a problem it cannot fix.
- Cleaning method for the brick or stone face
- Ash dump and cleanout doors
- Water entry traced before firebox repairs
- Floor protection and dust control
Restoration know-how from our Lorna Doone team
Worth reading before you approve restoration work in Lorna Doone.
An inspection before the first fire
NFPA 211, the national standard for chimneys, fireplaces and vents, expects each of them to be inspected every year. A fireplace coming back into use after years of rest has the strongest case for that check, because nobody knows how it was left.
Every restoration scope we write in Lorna Doone includes the flue above the fireplace, from the smoke chamber to the cap. Cleaning and checking that path before the first fire is part of returning the fireplace to use, and anything outside the fireplace itself is priced as its own item.
Restoring a Rumford fireplace
A Rumford fireplace is tall and shallow on purpose, with angled side walls that throw heat into the room. The Florida Building Code allows its shallower firebox under a specific exception tied to the width of the opening and the height of the throat.
Restoring a Rumford means keeping that geometry. Replacement firebrick follows the existing angles, and nothing is rebuilt to the proportions of a standard firebox. Our Lorna Doone estimate names the parts of the design we are preserving.
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 fireplace that came with the house
New homeowners often inherit a fireplace with no history. Nobody knows when it was last used, cleaned or checked, and the seller may not know either.
A restoration inspection gives you that history in writing. From there you can restore it for fires, keep it decorative or leave it for later, with a clear sense of what each choice involves for your Lorna Doone home.
Other work in Lorna Doone
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Quick answers on restoration in Lorna Doone
If yours is not here, call and our Lorna Doone team will answer it.
Can you take paint off our brick fireplace?
Often, once we know what is under it. In a home built before 1978, the paint should be tested for lead first, because disturbing lead paint is regulated work. Where lead is ruled out, a stripping method is tested on a small section before the whole face.
Will the repairs match the original brick and mortar?
We look for brick close in size, color and texture and match mortar color, sand and joint shape. You see the closest options before anything is cut out, and if no good match exists, you decide how to proceed.
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