New fireplace installation, planned for your Waterford Lakes home
Factory-built or masonry, installed in Waterford Lakes to Florida Residential Code chapter 10, with a workmanship warranty on our work.
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Fireplace installation items we confirm in your Waterford Lakes home
Upfront pricing sits beside each item, so you can see where the fireplace budget goes in Waterford Lakes.
- Chimney route checked for offsets and elbows
- Air space kept around the fireplace and chimney
- Masonry footing, firebox and hearth to code
- Drop cloths and dust control during the work
What a proper fireplace installation involves in Waterford Lakes
From our family-owned crew, the details that decide how a new fireplace works.
The UL 127 label inside the firebox
Factory-built wood fireplaces are tested to UL 127, the standard for factory-built fireplaces. One maker's wood-burning manual, for its E-series fireplaces, states the system was tested and listed to UL 127 and to the Canadian standard, for installation and operation as described in that manual.
The label that records the listing sits on the unit and names the model, the standard and the approved chimney. Inspectors read it, and so do we. It is the fastest way to confirm that a fireplace, its chimney and its accessories belong together.
Choosing a spot away from moving air
Where a fireplace sits affects how it draws. One maker cautions that a location near frequently opened doors, central heating outlets or returns, or other places with considerable air movement can affect performance and cause intermittent smoke spillage from the front of the fireplace.
When we look at possible locations in your room, we mark the patio door, the supply registers and the return grille and keep the firebox out of their path. A few feet can make the difference between a fireplace that draws cleanly and one that puffs smoke when the air conditioning starts.
A replacement unit needs its own chimney
A replacement factory-built fireplace comes with a listing that names its own chimney system. Pipe installed for the old unit belongs to the old unit's listing, even when the diameter looks the same.
That is why a fireplace replacement usually includes a new chimney from the firebox to the cap. We explain why at the inspection, so the estimate is not a surprise and you are not tempted by a lower quote that reuses pipe the new listing does not include.
What drives the cost of a new fireplace
The biggest cost drivers are the type of fireplace, the length and route of the chimney, the roof and chase work, the hearth and face finish, and whether an old unit has to come out first. Permit and electrical work add their own lines.
We explain each driver for your project at the free inspection and put them in writing with upfront pricing, so you can adjust the plan knowing which choices move the total. Sometimes a different wall or a shorter chimney route changes the number more than a different fireplace does.
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What Waterford Lakes homeowners want to know about adding a fireplace
Answered by the family-owned team that builds fireplaces in Waterford Lakes.
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.
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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