Glass Doors for Legeder Rock Fireplace - Project #10288

Customer Comments: I am interested in purchasing one of your fireplace doors. I have been looking at your photo gallery online and I like the Carolina in either mahogany or autumn, but I am also interested in your suggestions. Our house was built during the 1980s. We are the second owners and purchased our home in 1993. We have not used our fireplace in many years because when the wind blows (which is most of the time because the house sits high on a natural ledge and we are fairly near the ocean), we inevitably get an unacceptable amount of smoke coming into the house. We had our chimney checked, cleaned regularly and purchased a vac-u-stack from a professional. The problem continued so we stopped using the fireplace altogether, which is ok with us, but we still need new fireplace doors. As you can see from the photos attached, the fireplace looks pretty dirty, especially given the fact that we don’t burn wood in it. But I am not sure of the best method for cleaning it, but I would like the glass on the fireplace doors to be dark enough to hide the soot, at least for the most part.

Our Comments: We have created several samples of doors that will look great on your fireplace. If you cannot get the soot cleaned, you may want to consider a door that has a custom made frame wide enough to cover most of the soot as you see in the examples below. The Carolina door only has a 2" wide frame, so it will not cover the sooted area. The Legend door is almost identical to the Carolina door, but it is made from a 3/16" thick solid sheet of steel that is laser cut, whereas the Carolina is made by piecing together 3/16" thick steel barstock pieces that are 1 1/2" or 2" wide. So the Legend door can be made with whatever frame width we specify.

Fireplace Opening: 36" W x 27" H

Before

Before:

Armada

Option #1: Milwaukee Forge Armada Fireplace Door in Natural Iron with Grey Glass and Custom Width Frame.

Armada

Option #2: Milwaukee Forge Armada Fireplace Door (without bars) in Forged Iron with Grey Glass and Custom Width Frame.

Carolina

Option #3: Carolina Bifold Fireplace door in Autumn Glow with Clear Glass and Standard 2" Wide Frame.

Carolina

Option #4: Carolina Bifold Fireplace Door in Mahogany with Clear Glass and Standard 2" Wide Frame.

Legend

Option #5: Legend Bifold Fireplace Door in Mahogany with Clear Glass and Custom Width Frame.

Craftsman

Option #6: Craftsman Twin Fireplace Door in Forged Iron with Grey Glass and Custom Width Frame.

Madrid

Option #7: Madrid Twin Fireplace Door in Vintage Iron with Grey Glass and Custom Width Frame.

Measurements

We need the following measurements of the fireplace opening, not of the old original door:

A1: Shortest width between the stones
A2: Longest width between the stones
B1: Shortest height to lintel
B2: Tallest height to lintel
C: Height from bottom of lintel to top of the soot at this point (this will determine how wide we need to make the frame if we use a custom width).

Fig #1A - Measuring Diagram

Other photos

Fig #2 - Picture of previous door

Fig #3 - Closeup

Fig #4 - Top Left

Fig #5 - Bottom Left

Fig #6 - Top Right

Fig #7- Bottom Right

Fig #8- Damper