Restoring an old fireplace in Neptune Beach

Your Neptune Beach fireplace cleaned first, repaired on the heat side, then repointed on the face to match, all planned after a free inspection.

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Family owned and operated
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Nothing on the estimate changes the look; every line restores what is already there.

Family owned and operatedA family business plans your Neptune 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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Preparing a fireplace for sale

A buyer's inspector will look inside the firebox, up past the damper and at the face. An old fireplace with open joints, a seized damper and soot on the brick invites a report line and a request for credit, and sometimes a delay while someone gets a quote.

Restoring it before listing turns those into finished items, with each repair and its materials recorded for the listing file. The work carries our workmanship warranty. Listing a house in Neptune Beach soon? Book the free restoration inspection at (904) 920-5495.

Neptune Beach borders the coast. Neptune Beach is in Duval County.

Restoration work for Neptune Beach fireplaces

Flue, smoke chamber and firebox cleaned before assessment
Smoke chamber parging restored
Seized dampers freed or replaced
Stone fireplace faces cleaned and repointed

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How our restoration pros bring back a fireplace in Neptune 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.

Rust stains on a coastal fireplace face

Orange streaks on the face or in the firebox point to steel rusting above them. On the coast in Neptune Beach, salt helps that along.

We clean the stain after the trial patch and list the rusting part for repair.

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Bringing an old fireplace back? Work you commit to inside 72 hours of our look is 10% off.

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How deep old face mortar comes out

Before repointing, old mortar is removed to sound material. The National Park Service guidance sets a minimum depth of 2 to 2 1/2 times the width of the joint, which for most brick joints means about half an inch to an inch, and any loose mortar beyond that also comes out.

A shallow cut leaves the new mortar clinging to a thin ledge, and it pops out. We measure joint widths first and cut to the depth they call for, leaving square corners at the back of the cut giving the new mortar a solid back to hold. The depth is checked along each joint before filling starts.

Old bricks with rounded edges

Old brick that has worn round at the edges makes a joint look wider if the mortar is brought flush to the face. The National Park Service guidance suggests recessing the final mortar slightly behind the face in that case.

The recess keeps the joint looking the width it was built, and it avoids a thin featheredge of mortar that breaks off easily and lets water in. We look at how the surviving joints sit against worn brick and set the new ones the same way, so the repair reads as part of the old work rather than a patch laid over it.

Two mortars in one fireplace

A restored fireplace carries two different mortars, and mixing them up causes trouble. The firebox and smoke chamber take medium-duty refractory mortar meeting ASTM C199, as the code requires. The face takes a masonry mortar picked to be softer than the brick, as preservation guidance advises.

Refractory mortar on the face would be harder and look wrong; face mortar inside the firebox would break down in the heat. We keep them apart on site and on the estimate, and the ticket names both products, so anyone working on the fireplace later knows which went where.

Cleaned and checked in Neptune Beach before a plan is priced

Flue, smoke chamber and firebox cleaned before the condition list
Safety repairs listed apart from appearance work
Mantel and trim distances from the opening measured
Floors, mantel and walls protected, rinse water contained

Before an old fireplace is brought back

Can you restore an old fireplace in Neptune Beach without changing how it looks?

Yes. Restoration keeps the original brick or stone, the size of the opening and the joint pattern. Changing the facing or surround is remodeling, which we do not do.

Will all the soot come off?

That depends on the brick and how long the stain has been there. We clean a small trial patch first and show you the result once it is dry.