Fireplace Repair & Outdoor Fireplace Construction in Wooster, OH

A fireplace is two very different jobs, and Chim-Line Masonry handles both. Inside, that means fixing the fireboxes that take the most heat in your Wooster home — cracked firebrick, washed-out joints, crumbling hearths and tired surrounds. Outside, it means building the kind of brick or stone fireplace, chimney or fire pit that turns a Wayne County backyard into a place people actually want to gather once the evenings cool off.

Owner Merle Hochstedler does the work himself, whether he's repointing a firebox with high-temperature refractory mortar or laying a full outdoor chimney course by course. Repairs get the same attention as new builds: the right materials for the heat involved, joints tooled to match what's already there, and mortar color blended so a patched hearth or surround doesn't announce itself. Homeowners around Wooster know Chim-Line for that mortar matching, for straight answers about what a fireplace truly needs, and for leaving the living room or patio swept clean at the end of the day.

Outdoor masonry in Central and Northeast Ohio has to survive 30 to 65 freeze-thaw cycles every winter, and a fire feature built without that in mind cracks, spalls and loosens within a few seasons. We build outdoor fireplaces and pits on proper footings with weather-tolerant brick or stone, full-depth firebrick where flames touch, and capped, flashed details that shed water instead of trapping it. You get an honest scope, a free written estimate, and no pressure to add anything you don't need.