Brick fireplace restoration for South Tampa homes
Local restoration specialists who test before they clean and match mortar before they repoint.
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Fireplace Services
Inside a Fireplace Restoration in South Tampa
Here is how our local pros clean, repoint and rebuild a neglected fireplace.
What fireplace restoration covers
Restoration takes a neglected fireplace back to safe working order and its original look in one planned scope. That usually means cleaning the masonry, repairing or relining the firebox, resurfacing the smoke chamber, restoring the damper and repointing the face.
Single repairs still have their place, and our pros will say so when one fix is all the fireplace needs. Restoration makes sense when several parts have worn out together and you want them handled as one job.
Start with how you will use the fireplace
The same fireplace can be restored for occasional fires, for regular use or mainly for its looks, and each goal leads to a different plan. A fireplace that will burn wood needs every part in the path of heat and smoke made sound.
Our specialists begin by asking what you want from the fireplace. The recommendations that follow tie each task to that goal, so you can see why it is on the list.
Relining the firebox
A firebox lining that has lost joints, cracked through or been patched too many times is usually relined. Florida's residential code (R1001.5) calls for firebrick meeting ASTM C27 or C1261, set in medium-duty refractory mortar with joints no wider than a quarter inch.
Our pros remove the failed lining down to sound masonry and lay new firebrick with tight, full joints. The new lining matches the pattern of the old one where you want it to, and the curing steps are written down for you.
Restoring the lintel over the opening
The steel angle over the opening carries the brick above it, and code section R1001.7 calls for at least 4 inches of bearing at each end. Rust swells the steel, and the growth can crack joints, push brick forward or let the angle sag.
Brick industry guidance (BIA Technical Note 19) recommends room at the ends of a steel lintel for heat expansion. Our specialists clean and coat a lintel with surface rust, and replace one that has lost section, resetting the brick above it.
On any service we offer
Each stage you book within 72 hours of the inspection comes 10% off.
Free Inspection
What Your Free Restoration Inspection Covers
- Original brick, stone and tile worth keeping
- Damper plate, frame and linkage
- Cast iron fronts, grates and ash doors
- Flue cleaning ahead of the firebox work
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