Local fireplace restoration in San Marco

One written plan for your San Marco fireplace, safety work first and appearance work second, every line priced upfront.

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Restoration specialists who plan the whole fireplace in San Marco

Locally owned in Jacksonville
Family owned and operated
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Same-day service available
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Trim and hearth get a tape measure and a code check on the same visit.

Family owned and operatedA family business plans your San Marco 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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What a restoration estimate lists

Every restoration estimate we write lists the fireplace part by part: flue and smoke chamber, damper, firebox walls and floor, lintel, face, hearth and trim. Each part has its condition, the repair and the material, or a note that it is sound and staying as it is.

Safety items are marked, and the sequence and waiting times are given at the end. The pricing is upfront, with nothing added later without your approval. Want that kind of estimate for your San Marco fireplace? Request one at (904) 920-5495.

San Marco is one of the named neighborhoods of Jacksonville. San Marco is in Duval County.

What fireplace restoration covers in San Marco

Mismatched old patches cut out and redone
Worn or damaged face brick replaced with matched units
Stone fireplace faces cleaned and repointed
A written order of work for your San Marco fireplace

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How fireplace restoration runs

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.

Efflorescence on an inland fireplace

White bloom on fireplace brick in San Marco means water has been moving through the masonry, carrying salts from inside it.

We identify the deposit and look for the water source before cleaning it off.

10% off any service booked within 72 hours of inspection

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

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Why the order of work matters

An old fireplace restored in the wrong order costs more and looks worse. Cleaning the face before the joints are repaired can wash grit into open joints, and repointing the face before the heat side is fixed means working twice around the opening.

Our order is set: clean the flue, smoke chamber and firebox; repair the heat side; free or replace the damper; then test-clean and repoint the face, and clean it again only once the new mortar has hardened. Each step is on the estimate in that sequence, with its drying time, so the order is visible before anything starts.

The inspection scope a restoration starts from

Under NFPA 211, a chimney, its fireplace and any vents get inspected for soundness, for being free of deposits and for correct clearances, and a fireplace left unused has often missed years of that. Restoration begins with the same scope, applied from the hearth up through the flue.

The difference is what follows. A plain inspection reports; a restoration turns each finding into a repair, a material and a place in the order of work. We keep the inspection findings on the estimate so you can see which repair answers which problem, and which findings needed no repair at all.

Wetting the brick before any cleaner

Saturating the brick comes first in the association's bucket-and-brush method: the area to be cleaned, and the brick below it, is soaked with water before a cleaning solution goes on and kept wet until the final rinse. The cleaner is not allowed to dry on the brick.

Saturated brick absorbs less of the cleaner, so it works on the surface instead of soaking into the masonry, and the rinse carries it away. On a fireplace face that means working in small sections, with the hearth and floor protected and the rinse water caught as we go, not flooding the whole face at once.

Cleaned and checked in San Marco before a plan is priced

Flue, smoke chamber and firebox cleaned before the condition list
Damper freed and rehung, or replaced where rusted through
Deep joints filled in thin layers and tooled at thumbprint hardness
Smoke stains and efflorescence identified before cleaning

Before an old fireplace is brought back

Can you restore an old fireplace in San Marco 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.