Chimney Sweep · Nashville, TN
Outdoor Fireplace Install in Nashville
Built outdoor fireplaces and chimneys that draw properly, footed and flued to code rather than stacked to look right.
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Outdoor Fireplace Install in Nashville, Tennessee
Built outdoor fireplaces and chimneys that draw properly, footed and flued to code rather than stacked to look right.
Nashville's Chimney Sweep does outdoor fireplace install for homeowners across Middle Tennessee — licensed, insured, with the price in writing before the work starts. Chimney sweeps who put a camera up the flue, show you what they found, and repair what is actually wrong.
Why homeowners call
Fireplace trouble behind this call
- Smoke comes back into the room
- Sharp smell from the fireplace
- Birds or animals in the chimney
- Water staining round the hearth
- Cracked or missing chimney crown
- Damper stuck or will not seal
- Gas logs will not light or stay lit
- Want an outdoor fireplace on the patio
What is included
What outdoor fireplace install includes, flue to cap
- Site walk to settle position, prevailing wind and clearance to the house
- Footing dug and poured below frost, sized to the finished mass
- Firebox built in firebrick with refractory mortar, not face brick
- Flue and throat sized to the opening so it draws rather than smokes
- Chimney height carried above anything nearby that would spill air into it
- Hearth, mantel and veneer in the stone or brick you chose
- Gas line run and tested where you want gas rather than wood
- First fire lit with you there, and the draw checked before we leave
Outdoor Fireplace Install as our sweeps carry it out
An outdoor fireplace either draws or it smokes at the people sitting in front of it, and that is decided by numbers rather than looks: the ratio of the opening to the flue, the shape of the throat and the smoke shelf, and how high the chimney finishes relative to the house and the trees behind it. A structure built to a photograph and not to those numbers is a very expensive smoke machine.
It also has to be built as a structure. The mass of a masonry fireplace is measured in tons, so it gets its own footing below frost depth. Set one on a patio slab and it will move with the ground, open its joints and eventually lean.
The firebox is firebrick laid in refractory mortar. Ordinary brick and ordinary mortar will spall and crumble at the temperatures a fire actually reaches, and it fails from the inside where you will not see it until pieces are falling into the hearth.
We build for wood, gas, or wood with a gas starter, and the choice changes the flue and the plumbing, so it is settled before anything is dug rather than after.
Also available
Chimney and fireplace work besides this
Chimney Cleaning and Sweeping
Removing creosote and soot from the flue with the room sealed and put back exactly as we found it.
Learn moreChimney Repair
Crowns, caps, flashing, liners and brickwork — the whole stack, priced from what a camera actually found.
Learn moreFireplace Repair
Gas logs, wood inserts, dampers and fireboxes repaired, plus the smoke problems nobody else could find.
Learn moreChimney Inspection
Camera survey of the full flue, graded to the CSIA levels, with the footage shown to you rather than described.
Learn moreCaps, Crowns & Flashing
The three places water actually gets in, repaired or replaced before it reaches the firebox.
Learn moreLiner Installation & Relining
Stainless liners sized to the appliance, which is what makes an old chimney safe for a modern insert.
Learn moreChimney Masonry & Tuckpointing
Repointing, rebuilding above the roofline and replacing spalled brick, matched to what is already there.
Learn moreService area
Chimneys we sweep around Nashville
Our sweeps cover Nashville and 64 further towns across 12 counties; a Middle Tennessee house within an hour or thereabouts of Nashville is one we can reach.
FAQ
Asked about outdoor fireplace install
What makes an outdoor fireplace draw properly?
A firebox and a flue sized to each other and to the opening, a chimney tall enough to pull, and a smoke shelf and throat built right — the same physics as an indoor fireplace. One that was stacked to look like a fireplace rather than built to burn smokes into the seating on a still evening. It is built on a footing below frost depth, because it is heavy and Middle Tennessee clay moves.
Do I need a permit for an outdoor fireplace?
Usually, for a masonry fireplace with a chimney — it is a structure with a footing and a flue. Fire pits generally do not. Wood fires are subject to the open-burning rules Metro and the counties apply, which a gas fireplace avoids. Setbacks from the house, the fence and the neighbor are checked before the footing is dug.
Free estimate
Arrange outdoor fireplace install before the next fire
Let Nashville's Chimney Sweep know what you burn, how often and what you have noticed. A written estimate follows at no cost, without any obligation.