Factory-built and masonry fireplaces installed in Windhover
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What the fireplace plan for your Windhover home includes
Checked once, carefully, so framing day in Windhover starts on a settled plan.
- Chimney route checked for offsets and elbows
- Masonry footing, firebox and hearth to code
- Electrical work by an electrician, listed separately
- First fire lit together and controls explained
The chimney, the framing and the fire, for Windhover homes
What our installers look for, and why it matters, on Windhover fireplace jobs.
How far a factory-built chimney may lean
A factory-built chimney can offset to clear framing, but not without limits. Section R1005.7 keeps every part of the chimney within 30 degrees of vertical and caps the whole run at four elbows.
Those limits shape where the fireplace can go relative to the roof. If a location would need a steeper offset or more elbows, the location changes and the rule stays. We check the route on paper before recommending a spot in the room.
Building the chase around the chimney
A chase is a framed enclosure around the chimney, and sometimes around the fireplace too, most often on an outside wall. The E-series manual says it is built much like the walls of the house, finished with brick, stone, veneer or siding, with a 2 inch air space around the chimney and a chase top made of noncombustible material.
We frame the chase to the manual, keep the air space clear and fit the chase top and storm collar that come with the chimney parts. The chase finish can match the house, and the estimate names what that finish is.
Wood, gas and electric are separate installations
This service covers wood-burning fireplaces, factory-built and masonry, together with the chimneys that serve them. Gas fireplaces and electric fireplaces are installed under their own services, because they bring their own venting, fuel supply or power requirements and their own manuals.
If you are still deciding between wood, gas and electric, we can talk it through at the same free inspection. The choice changes the chimney, the permit and the finish plan, so it is worth settling before any framing is drawn or any unit is ordered.
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.
Other work in Windhover
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Answers on adding a fireplace for Windhover households
Short answers from our fireplace installers in Windhover. Anything else, just call.
Is a masonry fireplace better than a factory-built one?
Neither is automatically better. Masonry is heavier, needs a footing and takes longer to build; factory-built frames in faster and lighter. We lay out the trade-offs for your house and recommend the one that suits it.
What happens where the chimney passes through attic insulation?
Section R1005.8 calls for a steel insulation shield at least 0.0187 inch thick wherever a factory-built chimney crosses insulated space, so the insulation stays off the pipe. We fit the shield listed for your chimney system and check the insulation around it before we leave the attic.
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