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Outdoor Fireplaces in DeSoto

Built masonry fireplaces for DeSoto backyards, sized to the covered patio you already have and built to draft clean.

An outdoor fireplace gives a DeSoto backyard a tall feature you sit and face, with a real chimney pulling the smoke up and away. Most of the calls here come from homes in Thorntree, Frost Farm, Windmill Hill, and The Meadows that went in through the 90s and 2000s, where the patio is already set and the yard is the size it is going to be. An outdoor fireplace anchors one end of a covered patio and turns a corner you walked past into a spot the family actually uses most of the year.

The first choice is what burns. Gas is what most DeSoto owners pick. It lights with a switch, throws no smoke, and there is no wood to split or store, and on these older lots the meter usually sits close to the patio, so the line a licensed plumber runs is short. Wood-burning gives you the smell and the crackle and a bigger fire, and it needs a firebox built for the heat plus a dry place to keep the wood. We build both, and the deciding factor is usually whether you want the ritual of a wood fire or the convenience of flipping it on after dinner.

A masonry fireplace stands or falls 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 the covered patio framing, the eaves, and the fence, with the firebox and throat shaped so it drafts the way it should. Placing a fireplace against a covered patio is the most common DeSoto layout and the one that needs the most care, because an open flame under a roof has clearances an open fire pit in the middle of the yard never deals with.

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 instead, and on some DeSoto lots it is the better fit. The facing is stone veneer, brick, or stacked stone, matched to the brick on the house and the stone already on your patio so it reads like it was always there. We bring samples and set them against your deck in daylight. A low seat wall or a raised hearth across the front gives people a place to sit without dragging chairs out every time.

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. Plenty of DeSoto owners build the fireplace alongside an outdoor kitchen or a garden fountain so one crew handles it on one stone palette and one timeline. We cover DeSoto, Cedar Hill, Duncanville, and the rest of southern Dallas County, and build outdoor fireplaces in Denton on the same standard. See the rest of our patio work or what we do across DeSoto, and ask for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.