My wife and I are looking for a mason to tear down and rebuild about 10 courses of a chimney (and do everything involved like replace the water cap thing on top, point the rest of the chimney, maybe reseal the flashing) and help us turn our fireplace back into a working wood one by laying some firebrick and rebuilding the firebox.
If anyone on here is a mason or knows anyone in the south hills, let me know. We are awaiting a quote from mariany & richards, and some R&R guy from Brentwood. Location is Brentwood. Roof is slate. Chimney is high. We will be doing as much of the demo as we can. I can post pics of it’s current state and what we want it to look like when completed if it will help.
theres a guy my family knows that lives in brentwood, does good work at everything. put a nice roof over our deck and fixed our chimney.
his name is Tim Fornear (sp) 412-401-6251 cell
We plan on some natural stone like marble for the hearth and part of the surround. The rest of the surround and mantle will be an old school wood one. Hopefully that will make sense. We would be doing some more demo to enlarge the firebox some, especially deep as it’s only like 20" deep. So we are really looking for someone to lay firebrick in the box, and we also need a damper installed.
The chimney is a chimney, just pretty high because of the grade of the yard.
the people that we have talked to didn’t say anything about that. I guess we really wouldn’t be increasing the size that much, just enough to put the fire brick in and not make the box any smaller. The brick in the back, the green part, is really just like a facade. It’s only about an inch thick.
I know, from the couple of chimneys I helped with last summer, the sizing seems to be more important than most people think. It might be some good questions when “interviewing” prospective masons…
