Prefab fireplace replacement and new installs in Park Lake/Highland
Local experts in Park Lake/Highland who tell you which wall works before you fall in love with the wrong one. The first visit is free.
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The route, the framing and the hearth, checked in Park Lake/Highland
A fireplace location works or it does not. These checks decide it, written down before anything is ordered.
- Fireplace model and placement agreed against the manual
- Chimney route checked for offsets and elbows
- Outside air kit and inlet location
- Hearth extension built to the manual or code
Fireplace installation, explained by our Park Lake/Highland team
Three parts of the job our fireplace specialists walk through with Park Lake/Highland homeowners.
Leveling the fireplace and squaring the opening
The E-series manual asks for the fireplace to be leveled side to side and front to back, shimmed with noncombustible material such as sheet metal, and secured to the framing with its nailing flanges. To make sure glass doors fit, it asks for the diagonals of the opening to be measured and made equal.
A fireplace set slightly out of square looks fine until the doors are hung. We level and check the diagonals before the unit is fastened, so the doors, the face finish and the hearth all line up later.
No liquid starters, cleaners or colorants
The E-series fireplace is built for solid fuel only. Its manual says never to use gasoline, lantern fuel, kerosene, charcoal lighter fluid or similar liquids, to keep flammable liquids a safe distance away, and not to use chimney cleaners or flame colorants in the fireplace.
We leave a short list of these rules with you at handover. A new fireplace starts easily with newspaper, dry kindling and small splits, which is how we light the first fire with you.
A new fireplace is permitted work
Florida Building Code, Building, section 105.1 requires anyone who intends to construct, enlarge, alter or repair a building, or cause such work to be done, to first apply to the building official and obtain the required permit. Adding or replacing a fireplace and its chimney falls within that kind of work.
The local building department decides what it needs to see. We tell you what applies at your address, list any permit fee separately and plan the work so inspections can happen at the right stage.
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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Fireplace installation questions we answer in Park Lake/Highland
Short answers from our fireplace installers in Park Lake/Highland. Anything else, just call.
Why can the chimney not take any path it likes to the roof?
Section R1005.7 holds a factory-built chimney to 30 degrees from vertical at most, with four elbows as the limit for the whole run. If a spot in the room would break either limit, the spot moves. We draw the route before recommending where the fireplace should sit.
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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