Salina · Outdoor fireplaces

Fire Pit and Outdoor Fireplace Ideas for Salina

A stone fire pit or outdoor fireplace can suit a Salina backyard with room, once you know what the state and town allow.

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Backyard stone fireplace with a fire burning and split firewood stored beneath the hearth

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When outdoor fireplaces fits a Salina home

A big back lawn with no focal pointA ring of stone seating around a fire pit anchors an open yard and gives the evening a destination.
A patio that cools off too earlyA built-in fireplace on one side of a paver patio stretches the sitting season into October.
A grill on a card tableAn outdoor kitchen island in stone and brick gives a grill a fixed spot with counter room and storage.

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How big may a fire pit be in Salina?

The state rule covers small fires under 3 feet high and 4 feet across, burning clean wood or charcoal. Local rules may be stricter, so ask the code office.

Does an outdoor fireplace need a permit in Salina?

A built-in fireplace is a structure, so ask the Planning and Development department, or the village code department if you live in Liverpool, before you build.

Outdoor fireplaces in Salina homes

A Salina yard gives you options, and the first is scale. A fire pit with a ring of seating stone can fill a corner of the lawn. A fireplace wants a back wall at the edge of a paver patio, and an outdoor kitchen island needs a flat, level pad with room for the grill to vent. Decide how many people you want around the fire and whether you cook there, because that picks the feature before any stone is chosen. Charcoal or clean, untreated wood is what the state allows in a small fire, so think about where the woodpile and the ash will go as well.

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State campfire limits are 3 feet high and 4 feet across, and local rules may be stricter, so ask the Town of Salina Department of Planning and Development, or the Village of Liverpool's code department if you live in the village.

Ground and footing

Cut and fill land covers 11.0 percent of the town's mapped area, so look hard at the spot where a fireplace will stand. Ask the contractor how the soil will be tested, how the footing area will drain and what goes in writing about the base. A fire feature that settles unevenly cracks where stone meets stone, and the repair costs more than a good footing would have.

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Allow for the calendar too. Mortar needs material temperatures of 40 degrees or more to cure, so a fireplace that starts late in the fall may be better scheduled for spring, with the stone and mortar protected until then. The code asks for a masonry fireplace footing at least 12 inches thick, below frost depth, with an exception for some small free-standing structures; ask the office which applies and who will call 811.

Basis: New York State Department of, Onondaga County