Southlake / Outdoor Fireplaces

Outdoor Fireplace Construction in Southlake

Built masonry outdoor fireplaces for Southlake backyards. Wood or gas, real firebox and chimney, faced to match the rest of the yard.

A built outdoor fireplace in Southlake is masonry from the footing up, not a prefab box set on the patio. We build outdoor fireplaces with a poured footing, a real firebox, a flue, and a chimney, faced in stone that matches the rest of the yard. On the larger lots out here there is room to set the fireplace as the anchor of a seating area or the far wall of a covered patio, well clear of the house.

The first decision is wood or gas. Wood gives you a working hearth and the draw of a real fire, and it needs a properly sized flue and chimney to pull smoke up and away. Gas lights with a switch, runs clean, and suits a covered patio where smoke would otherwise collect. Either way the firebox has to hold the right clearances to anything combustible, the framing, the patio cover, the eaves. We size the flue and set the clearances to code so the fire draws and the structure stays safe.

Placement is the part people get wrong. A fireplace set under or against a covered patio needs its chimney carried high enough above the roofline to draft, or smoke rolls back under the cover. This is also where the fireplace-versus-fire-pit question gets settled. A fireplace throws heat in one direction and gives you a wall and a mantel to build seating around, while a fire pit is open on all sides and lower to the ground. On a Southlake patio with room to spare, a lot of owners do one of each.

Facing is where it ties into the property. Natural stone, limestone, or a stacked ledgestone reads right against the estate homes here, and we match it to the pool coping, the kitchen, and the deck so the backyard holds together. We lay out the hearth and the seating around the heat, hearth height, bench walls, and the throw of the fire. Most fireplaces fold into a larger backyard program, so see the full range of patio work or start at our Southlake services. Fill out the form for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.

We build fireplaces alongside the rest of a project on one timeline, the stone matched and the crew kept on it. If the fireplace is part of a bigger plan with a kitchen, a spa, and a water feature, running it together keeps the materials and the schedule in one place.