Local fireplace restoration in Jacksonville Beach

Brick stays brick in Jacksonville Beach: the original opening, hearth and pattern kept, with joints matched in color and profile.

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The face is cleaned only after a trial patch you have seen dry.

Family owned and operatedA family business plans your Jacksonville Beach fireplace as one job, so each step happens once and in the right order.
100% satisfaction guaranteedYou approve the trial patch and the mortar sample before the face is touched, and our guarantee covers the result.

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A hearth that has seen better days

An old fireplace's hearth can be cracked, loose at the edges or shorter than the code asks for today. It is part of the fireplace's look and part of its safety, since it is where sparks and embers land when a log shifts.

Restoration checks the hearth and extension and writes down their condition and size. Hearth repair is its own line, done in material that matches the original where that can be found, so it can be approved on its own. Cracked hearth on an old fireplace in Jacksonville Beach? We look at it free; call (904) 920-5495.

Jacksonville Beach lies on the coastline. Jacksonville Beach falls within Duval County.

Restoration work for Jacksonville Beach fireplaces

Smoke chamber parging restored
Face joints repointed to match the original
Mantel and trim distances checked against the code
Stone fireplace faces cleaned and repointed

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How our restoration pros bring back a fireplace in Jacksonville Beach

Clean and assess
Everything from the hearth to the flue top is cleaned, then checked and written up part by part.
Heat side first
Firebox, parging and damper repairs are made in refractory materials and left to dry.
Trial, then the face
A trial patch is cleaned and a mortar sample made for your approval before the face work.
Repoint, cure, clean
Face joints are repointed in layers, left to harden, then the face gets its final cleaning.

An old fireplace on the coast in Jacksonville Beach

Salt air on the coast in Jacksonville Beach leaves the indoor face and firebox alone but reaches the metal parts above them: the damper, the cap and any steel lintel near the outside.

Restoration in Jacksonville Beach includes those metal parts on the condition list, each with its own line.

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The restoration comes 10% off and carries our 100% satisfaction guarantee like any job.

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Parging the smoke chamber

Section R1001.8 of the Florida code requires the inside of the smoke chamber to be parged smooth with refractory mortar conforming to ASTM C199. In an old fireplace that parging may not have been applied at all, or it may have fallen away in patches.

A rough or open smoke chamber slows the smoke and leaves joints exposed to heat. Restoration fills and smooths it from below through the damper opening, and the repair dries for the time on the mortar's data sheet before any fire. The finished surface is checked with a light before we close up, and the ticket notes how much area was parged.

Freeing or replacing an old damper

Florida's code wants the damper of a masonry fireplace made of ferrous metal and set no less than 8 inches over the top of the opening. In an old fireplace the plate may be rusted at its pivots, bent, or rusted thin.

A plate that is sound but stuck is freed, cleaned and rehung so it opens fully and closes flat. One that has rusted through is replaced with a unit sized to the existing throat. Either way, the damper is worked open and shut several times before the first fire, and its condition before and after is written down on the ticket.

Protecting the room around the fireplace

Brick cleaning guidance starts with protecting the materials next to the masonry, and a fireplace sits in a finished room with floors, rugs and a mantel close by. Cleaning solutions and rinse water have to be kept where they belong.

Before any water goes on the face, we cover the floor and the hearth, mask the mantel and the walls on either side, and set containers to catch runoff. Work is done in small sections so nothing runs down unseen. When the job is done, the coverings come up and the room is swept and wiped before the crew goes.

Cleaned and checked in Jacksonville Beach before a plan is priced

Flue, smoke chamber and firebox cleaned before the condition list
Firebox joints and firebrick in C199 refractory mortar
Trial cleaning patch on the face, judged dry
Deep joints filled in thin layers and tooled at thumbprint hardness

Before an old fireplace is brought back

Do we have to restore everything at once?

No. The estimate splits safety work from appearance work, so the fireplace can be made safe first and the face finished later. The order of work still applies.

Why not use acid on the brick?

Brick industry guidance advises against unbuffered muriatic acid, which can etch mortar, discolor brick and cause new stains on light-colored brick. We use the gentlest method that works in a trial.