Brick fireplaces restored in St. Nicholas

Your St. Nicholas 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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Local restoration pros who keep the original look

Locally owned in Jacksonville
Family owned and operated
100% satisfaction guaranteed
Free inspection and estimate
Same-day service available
10% off any service

Cleaning comes first on a restoration in St. Nicholas, so the estimate describes what is really there.

Family owned and operatedA family business plans your St. Nicholas 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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Safety first, then the face

A restoration estimate has two halves. The first covers everything that has to be right before a fire is lit: firebox joints and brick, smoke chamber parging, the damper and the clearances around the opening. The second covers how the fireplace looks: face cleaning, face repointing and any matched replacement brick.

You can approve the safety half alone and schedule the rest when it suits you, though the face still comes last in the order. Want the fireplace in St. Nicholas safe to use before anything cosmetic? Ask for a split estimate at (904) 920-5495.

Within Jacksonville city limits, St. Nicholas is its own named neighborhood. St. Nicholas is part of Duval County.

Clean, repair, repoint, protect

Unused fireplaces brought back to working order
Smoke chamber parging restored
Mismatched old patches cut out and redone
A written order of work for your St. Nicholas fireplace

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How our restoration pros bring back a fireplace in St. Nicholas

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 well inland

St. Nicholas sits well inland, where an old fireplace ages from time, heat, water down the flue and earlier repairs rather than salt.

Restoration in St. Nicholas finds and orders all of them.

10% off any service booked within 72 hours of inspection

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

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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.

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.

Cleaning the face after repointing

Fresh face mortar has to harden before it is cleaned. The National Park Service guidance says the mortar should be fully hardened first, with thirty days usually sufficient, and that the masonry should be soaked with water before any chemical cleaner and flushed afterward.

So on a restoration, the final cleaning of the face waits for the new joints. We schedule that visit on the estimate, a month or so after the repointing, and the fireplace can be used for fires in between once the heat-side repairs have dried. The final visit also checks the new joints for any hairline cracking.

Cleaned and checked in St. Nicholas before a plan is priced

Flue, smoke chamber and firebox cleaned before the condition list
Smoke chamber parged smooth where parging is missing
Face mortar matched in sand, color and profile, softer than the brick
Mantel and trim distances from the opening measured

Before an old fireplace is brought back

Will the new mortar match the old?

We match the sand, color and joint profile, and test a sample first. Fresh mortar looks slightly different at first and blends as it cures.

Is the restoration inspection free?

Yes. The inspection and the written estimate cost nothing, with upfront pricing and no hidden fees. Booked within 72 hours of that inspection, the restoration is 10% off.