What does a fire feature cost?

Exscape Group prices fire features by type, materials, and how far the gas has to run. A straightforward gas fire pit built into an existing patio starts in the low thousands, while a masonry outdoor fireplace with seating walls runs considerably higher. Most fire features are built as one element of a design-build scope rather than as a standalone job.

Is a gas or wood fire pit the better choice?

Exscape Group recommends gas for most households, because the features that get used are the ones that require nothing of you on a Tuesday evening in October. Wood is the better answer when the sound and the smell are the point and somebody is willing to store and lay the fire. That choice is settled during design, since it changes the siting and everything that runs underneath.

Can a fire feature be added to an existing patio?

Exscape Group adds fire features to finished patios regularly, and the answer depends on what is underneath. Running gas across a finished surface means cutting and repairing it, so a propane option is sometimes the better route on an established patio. The patio is assessed and both options priced before anything is committed.

How close to the house can a fire feature be built?

Exscape Group confirms clearances and setbacks for your address during design rather than discovering them during inspection. Requirements vary by community and by feature type, and wood features carry different clearances than gas. Nothing is finalized until those are checked.

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Heat Up Your Next Gathering With a Fire Pit or Outdoor Fireplace

In Ohio the yard is comfortable for about four months, and a fire feature is what makes the shoulder seasons usable. Whether planning firepit seating, smoke paths, or laying gas lines at the appropriate time, every unique project is approached with care and precision, ensuring the highest quality results.

Outdoor Fire Features Belong in the Plan, Not as an Add-On

The last warm night in October, when everyone stays out an hour longer than the temperature says they should.

A fire pit dropped into a finished patio does not get that, because the seating ends up pushed to the edges and nobody settles. Design it in with the surfaces around it and everything underneath gets settled first, starting with gas or wood, which is a use question rather than a taste question.

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Gas fire pits

On in ten seconds, off in one, with no wood to store and no smoke to move away from. The choice for most clients who want the feature used on a weeknight rather than only on occasions. The gas line and any electrical for adjacent lighting go in before the surfaces do, because retrofitting a line through a finished patio costs multiples of running it during construction.
Wood-burning fire pits

The sound and the smell, and a genuine reason to stand outside in November. Siting is the whole job here: prevailing wind, the neighbor's deck, your own dining area, and somewhere for the wood to live. Smoke that drifts the wrong way is what makes a wood feature go unused.
Outdoor fireplaces

A vertical structure that anchors the space, blocks wind, and gives it a wall it did not have. The most architectural option and the one that changes how a yard reads.
Fire tables and integrated features

Fire built into seating walls, dining areas, or poolside surrounds so it reads as part of the construction rather than an object placed on it.

Whichever one you choose, it gets sized to the seating rather than the reverse.

Six chairs around a four-foot pit is a fire feature no one can talk across.

How Fire Pit and Outdoor Fireplace Projects Work

We walk the yard and talk about when you are out there.

Where the seating goes, which way the wind moves across the property, and whether this is a Tuesday evening feature or a weekend one. That conversation settles gas or wood before anything gets drawn, because the two put different things underground.

You see the design and the number together.

Style, materials, the seating built around it, and the gas or electrical runs priced as one scope. If hardscape is going in at the same time, it is in the same number rather than quoted separately later.

We build it from the base up.

Freeze and thaw is what takes fire features apart in this climate. Water gets into a joint, freezes, and lifts the stone. Bases go in with drainage and the right compaction underneath, materials are specified for the freeze cycle rather than for a catalog photo, and gas components are chosen to be serviceable after a decade rather than sealed in.

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One person who knows your property.

You get a single point of contact who stays with your account year-round. Not a rotating queue, not a different name on every email.

02.

The crew serving you is based in your market.

Our branches cover Greater Cleveland and Columbus, so the team on your property is local to it. Local presence is how the company was built, not a byproduct of getting bigger.

03.

Every visit gets written down.

After a service visit you hear what the crew saw, whether it was expected or not. Property history lives in one shared system across every branch, not in one person's truck.

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We are still here after the install.

When the first fall arrives and you are wondering what to cut back and what to leave, someone answers. The team that builds your space is the team that cares for it.

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We will tell you if we are not the right fit.

If your project is smaller, we will tell you plainly rather than take three weeks to not call you back.

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Exscape Group prices fire features by type, materials, and how far the gas has to run. A straightforward gas fire pit built into an existing patio starts in the low thousands, while a masonry outdoor fireplace with seating walls runs considerably higher. Most fire features are built as one element of a design-build scope rather than as a standalone job.
Exscape Group recommends gas for most households, because the features that get used are the ones that require nothing of you on a Tuesday evening in October. Wood is the better answer when the sound and the smell are the point and somebody is willing to store and lay the fire. That choice is settled during design, since it changes the siting and everything that runs underneath.
Exscape Group adds fire features to finished patios regularly, and the answer depends on what is underneath. Running gas across a finished surface means cutting and repairing it, so a propane option is sometimes the better route on an established patio. The patio is assessed and both options priced before anything is committed.
Exscape Group confirms clearances and setbacks for your address during design rather than discovering them during inspection. Requirements vary by community and by feature type, and wood features carry different clearances than gas. Nothing is finalized until those are checked.

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