Prefab fireplace replacement and new installs in Pershing
We check the chimney route, the structure and the room in Pershing before you choose. Book within 72 hours after your free inspection and take 10% off.
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Before any fireplace is ordered for your Pershing home
The room, the attic and the roof are measured in person in Pershing, and each result lands on your estimate.
- Listed chimney sections, firestops and attic shield
- Framed opening and header set to the standoffs
- Exterior chase framed and finished to match
- Glass doors and screen from the approved list
A fireplace installation in Pershing, start to finish
Each point below turns into a line on your written estimate in Pershing.
Type HT chimney for a wood-burning fireplace
Wood fires need a chimney rated for them. Section R1005.3 requires factory-built chimneys in homes with solid-fuel-burning appliances to meet the Type HT requirements of UL 103, marked Type HT and Residential Type and Building Heating Appliance Chimney.
For a factory-built fireplace, the chimney that meets that requirement is the one its manual names. We check the marking on the pipe we install and on any existing pipe we are asked to reuse, because a chimney without the right marking is not one we connect a wood fire to.
Keeping the new fireplace dry during construction
A fireplace delivered to an open framing job can sit in the rain if nobody plans for it. One maker cautions against exposing its fireplace to the elements and asks that it be kept dry at all times, noting that wet insulation will produce an odor when the fireplace is used.
We schedule delivery for when the unit can go under cover, and a roof opening is closed at the end of each working day. Those small steps keep the first fire from smelling like a wet attic.
Space in front of the opening
Fireplace manuals set clearances for combustible materials in front of the opening as well as around it, and the hearth extension adds its own footprint to the floor. Sofas, rugs, curtains and firewood baskets all need to respect those distances.
We mark the hearth extension and the front clearance on the floor plan, so the furniture layout works with the fireplace from the first evening. It is easier to plan a rug around a hearth than to move a rug that has already scorched.
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.
Other work in Pershing
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Fireplace installation questions we answer in Pershing
Undecided? These help, and the fireplace visit in Pershing costs nothing.
Can the old chimney pipe be reused with a new fireplace?
Usually not. A factory-built fireplace's listing names its own chimney system, so pipe installed for the old unit belongs to the old listing. We explain what applies to your replacement before anything is ordered.
Do you remove the old fireplace?
Yes, when it is part of the scope. We open the face, remove the chimney from the roof down, slide out the old firebox and haul it away, then install and finish the new system.
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