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Outdoor Fireplace Construction in Fort Worth

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

A built masonry outdoor fireplace in Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth go against a covered patio on the ranch-style lots in Tanglewood or out on the west side, where there is room to make the fireplace 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.

The footing is where the west side helps. Much of Fort Worth's west side sits on shallow limestone, which gives a heavy masonry fireplace a firmer base than the clay does out toward the east of the county. We still pour a footing sized for the weight, and where the soil shifts to clay we size it for the movement so the structure stays plumb. We read the lot before we pour.

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 native limestone, brick, or stucco to match the stone vernacular common across Fort Worth, 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 Fort Worth services. Fill out the form for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.