Fireplace installation and prefab replacement by local pros in Summerlake
We check the chimney route, the structure and the room in Summerlake before you choose. Book within 72 hours after your free inspection and take 10% off.
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The route, the framing and the hearth, checked in Summerlake
A fireplace location works or it does not. These checks decide it, written down before anything is ordered.
- Mantel line marked from the manual
- Reframing for a replacement unit
- Permit and inspection timing planned in
- Electrical work by an electrician, listed separately
Fireplace installation, explained by our Summerlake team
Three parts of the job our fireplace specialists walk through with Summerlake homeowners.
Factory-built and site-built masonry fireplaces
A new wood-burning fireplace is one of two kinds. A factory-built fireplace is a metal firebox made and tested as a system with its own chimney pipe, delivered to the house and framed in. A masonry fireplace is built on site from a footing up, with a firebox, hearth and chimney laid in brick, block, stone or concrete.
Both can give a real wood fire, and they follow different rules. The factory-built unit follows its listing and manual. The masonry fireplace follows Florida Residential Code chapter 10. Our free inspection starts by working out which suits the room, the structure and the budget you have in mind.
No single-wall pipe inside a chase
Single-wall pipe has no place inside a chase. One maker's manual warns never to install single-wall slip sections or smoke pipe in a chase structure, because the higher temperature of single-wall pipe may radiate enough heat to combustible chase materials to cause a fire.
Every section inside the chase is the listed chimney pipe for the fireplace. When we replace an old installation and find single-wall pipe in a chase, we show you, because it changes what the replacement has to include.
The hearth of a masonry fireplace
Section R1001.9 has masonry fireplace hearths and hearth extensions made of concrete or masonry, carried on noncombustible supports and reinforced for their own weight along with every load put on them. Section R1001.9.1 sets the minimum hearth thickness at 4 inches.
The hearth under the fire and the extension out front carry weight, so they are structure first and decoration second. We plan the support below them before choosing the finish stone on top, and we make sure the floor framing around the hearth is kept the required distance from the masonry.
Interior chimney or exterior chase
A chimney can rise through the house or up an exterior chase built against an outside wall. The interior route passes through upper floors and the attic; the exterior chase keeps the pipe out of the rooms above and gives the house a visible chimney on the outside.
Each route has trade-offs in framing, roof work, appearance and cost. Where your house allows both, we sketch them side by side at the free inspection and explain which one suits the plan and the way the house looks from the street.
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Answers on adding a fireplace for Summerlake households
Honest answers from our Summerlake fireplace specialists, no pressure attached.
Can the fireplace go in a corner or inside a chase outside the wall?
Often it can. A factory-built fireplace may stand along a wall, across a corner, between two rooms or in an exterior chase, and one manual we use draws the framing for each. Every spot changes the chimney route and the hearth, so we sketch the choices for your room at the free inspection.
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.
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