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Outdoor Fireplace Construction in Dallas

Built masonry outdoor fireplaces for Dallas patios. Wood-burning or gas, faced in stone, brick, or stucco, and set against a covered patio.

A built masonry outdoor fireplace in Dallas runs roughly $8,000 to $20,000 depending on size, facing, and whether it is wood-burning or gas. Wood gives you the fire and the smell and means hauling logs and clearing ash. Gas is a switch and a clean burn with no cleanup. Most of the fireplaces we set in Dallas go against a covered patio in Lakewood, the M Streets, or a Preston Hollow lot with room to spare, where the fireplace becomes the back wall of the seating area.

The part that makes a fireplace work is the flue, not the stone on the front. The chimney has to be tall enough and sized right to draw smoke up and out instead of back across the patio, and the firebox needs proper clearance from the covered patio framing and anything combustible overhead. We build the firebox, throat, and chimney to draft correctly and hold those clearances, then face it. A fireplace that smokes the seating area is almost always a draft or clearance problem, and it is hard to correct after the stone is on.

Dallas black clay is the reason the footing matters. The soil swells when it is wet and shrinks through a dry August, and a heavy masonry fireplace set on a shallow pad will lean and crack as the ground moves under it. We pour a footing sized for the weight and the soil so the structure stays plumb. On the older Lakewood and M Streets lots the clay is deep and active, so the base is not a place to cut.

If you want a gathering spot with open sightlines, a fire pit seats more people around it for less money. A fireplace earns its cost when you want a focal point, a wind block, and some height against a covered patio. We face it in stone veneer, brick, or stucco to match the house, and lay the seating so the hearth anchors one end without crowding the table.

We have built outdoor fireplaces across DFW for 20 years. See the full range of patio and outdoor living work or the rest of our Dallas services. Fill out the form for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.

Need to know what your backyard can take before you pick wood or gas? We look at the covered patio, the overhead clearance, and the lot, then tell you straight what fits.