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Outdoor Fireplaces in Denton

Built masonry fireplaces for Denton backyards, from the older homes near the Square to the newer subdivisions north of town.

An outdoor fireplace gives a Denton backyard a tall feature you sit and face, with a real chimney that carries the smoke up and away. The calls split between the older established homes near downtown and the Square, where the lots are mature and the yards are settled, and the newer north-growth subdivisions like Robson Ranch, Montecito, and Rivermist, where the build is recent and the bones are clean. An outdoor fireplace anchors one end of a patio in either, and on Denton's more open and varied lots there is usually room to place it well.

The first choice is what burns. Gas lights with a switch, throws no smoke, and there is no wood to store, and on the newer north Denton builds there is often a gas stub already run to the patio, which makes for a short hookup with no trenching across a finished yard. On the older homes near downtown the line runs from the meter and a licensed plumber sets the route. Wood-burning gives you the smell and the crackle and a bigger fire, and needs a firebox built for the heat plus a dry place to keep the wood. We build both and match it to how you want to use it.

A masonry fireplace lives or dies on the chimney. The flue has to be sized to the firebox so the draft pulls smoke straight up instead of rolling back onto the patio, and the chimney has to clear the roofline and anything close to it. We build to NFPA clearances, set back from a covered patio's framing, the eaves, and the fence. Denton sits on the county fringe where exposure matters, the wind off an open lot or a rural edge can fight a poorly drafted chimney, so we size the flue and shape the firebox for the spot it is actually going, not a generic build.

A fireplace is the tall, face-one-direction build. If you want the open, sit-all-around version for less money and a smaller footprint, that is a fire pit, and on some Denton lots it is the better fit. The facing is stone veneer, brick, or stacked stone, matched to the home, whether that is an older brick house near the Square or a newer build up north, and to the patio stone already there. We bring samples and set them against your deck in daylight. A low seat wall or a raised hearth across the front turns it into a room.

A built masonry outdoor fireplace generally runs $8,000 to $16,000 depending on height, the firebox, and the facing stone, with wood-burning fireboxes and taller chimneys at the top of that. Most jobs are one to two weeks on site. Many Denton owners build it alongside an outdoor kitchen or a garden fountain so one crew handles it on one stone palette. We cover Denton, Argyle, Corinth, and the rest of Denton County, and build outdoor fireplaces in DeSoto on the same standard. See the rest of our patio work or what we do across Denton, and ask for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.