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Three Rumford fireplaces in one chimney. Chimney consist
of a new water stuck brick by Morin brick.
It is very rear to hand pick a brick like these.
The pacheco mix.
A four foot Buckley rumford with a pink Corinthian Granite
surround.
A Three foot Rumford fireplace with a raised Blue stone hearth.
Rumford fire box with a Buckley throat section.
Framing around masonry chimney and fireplaces is essential
to code enforcement and safety.
We do the framing when we have to ,but every thing cost.
Hear is the new used brick that we recommend when trying
to achieve this look. Not all used brick should be used on a fireplace surrounds.
A thee foot fireplace with a limestone hearth and water struck
brick firebox.
Do you know what your asking for before you start your
dream house. It is our experience when a customer that's the builder and never done anything like this before can cause
time money and the lost of materials. Know what your asking for. And then let it happen. The red flag to us masons is when
a potential customer takes the position "that all we have to do is" Masonry is not done like this.
A bedroom rumford fireplace with a granite hearth
Something we have found in our travels, do you know any thing
about this. Send your info about it I'm curious.
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Constructing the firebox at Colby pond.
Goodrich brick found in Dixville notch New Hampshire.
Reused Willie S Goodrich brick at the original site
and farmhouses in the Balsams Wilderness New Hampshire.
Hand picked used brick cleaned up nice.
A brick hearth for a soap stone wood stove .
This fireplace has a limestone masonry mantel in order
to allow the stove pipe to be inserted into the chimney on the same Flore as the fireplace.
A three foot rumford with a raised granite hearth and a granite
mantel.
Modern fireplace with a rotary control damper control.
Notice the wet Flore expect it if your having a masonry fireplace
installed.
Richard doing some finishing touches to a three foot modern
fireplace . He's siting on a newly installed limestone hearth.
A pored hearth is common and code under the finished veneer.
The backup for a firebox must have an air space to the chimney veneer and be able to support a down draft shelf required by
code.
As seen hear we are confirming that we are at the right
height to begin the firebox. The code requires that the fire box be a least 8" thick. The backup provide this exactly
when building the back up separately. This to some seems to take to long but it has to be there any way so we build them
in with grate care. The weight of the smoke chamber that has to be 8 " thick also and all the flues and partition block
with multiple flues depend on it. The weight of the chimney veneer is on the foundation. The weight of the inner working
of the chimney rest on the back up that sits on a cantilevered pored concrete hearth. A fireplace firebox and damper should
be able to be removed and the flues should not be affected by this. Dampers wrought out dew to condensation and firebox's
crumble dew to high heat and inferior fire brick mortar exciters.
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Modern fireplace at colby pond Sandown New Hampshire.
Six inch hand pick natural six inch fieldstone veneer.
Charlie was very helpful in doing this stone work. charlie
was 62 yrs old at the time.
Six inch field stone is just the right size for something
like this.
A six thick concrete cap was pored with 1/2 " aggregate
to complete this stone chimney. The stone veneer is not in contact with the flues. A one inch air space must be maintained
at all times between the flue and the veneer to ensure that conductivity is not achieved. Only the flue get the heat. Should
the stone be allowed to worm up then the flues wont draw the smoke upward and you will see water. Even the driest hard
wood has moister.
This masonry shows a clay thimble for a wood stove located
in the center. The two clean out doors shown hear are for the ash dump for a fireplace upstairs and a clean out Dore for the
wood stove.
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