Brick Fireplace installation ...on patio in CRE?
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LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
No special regs that I am aware of. Get yourself an old timer bricklayer to do the work. Just make sure it's gonna be built on a sufficiently high psi strength concrete slab. If you already have a concrete slab, setbacks, the distance from your neighbor's property line, has already been accounted for. Typically, most building setbacks are a minimum of 10 feet from property boundary lines, at least in Calvert. If you don't have a concrete slab already, depending on topography, you may need to grade the ground to install one, it's here you might need a grading permit.
Also, if you do have a concrete patio pad already, you really want to make sure it is sound and strong enough to bear the weight of that new brick fireplace, depending on the size you want of course. A good bricklayer should be able to determine if an existing concrete slab is thick enough, though maybe not in composition, to bear the fireplace's weight.
Or, if building to sit just off a patio, that a sufficient concrete footer is poured to a proper depth to support the weight proper.
A caveat: Do not attempt to build a brick fireplace on a wooden patio deck.
No special regs that I am aware of. Get yourself an old timer bricklayer to do the work. Just make sure it's gonna be built on a sufficiently high psi strength concrete slab. If you already have a concrete slab, setbacks, the distance from your neighbor's property line, has already been accounted for. Typically, most building setbacks are a minimum of 10 feet from property boundary lines, at least in Calvert. If you don't have a concrete slab already, depending on topography, you may need to grade the ground to install one, it's here you might need a grading permit.
Also, if you do have a concrete patio pad already, you really want to make sure it is sound and strong enough to bear the weight of that new brick fireplace, depending on the size you want of course. A good bricklayer should be able to determine if an existing concrete slab is thick enough, though maybe not in composition, to bear the fireplace's weight.
Or, if building to sit just off a patio, that a sufficient concrete footer is poured to a proper depth to support the weight proper.
A caveat: Do not attempt to build a brick fireplace on a wooden patio deck.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
There might be some County regs for property line setback that apply, private communities are somewhat strange about that, although if the patio itself is within the side lot line and you don't encroach into the setback you shouldn't have an issue there.
Where you might have an issue is with the CRE covenants.
Where you might have an issue is with the CRE covenants.
Natron0915
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Once upon a time, outdoor burning was banned in CRE. Not sure now as it's been over 15 years since I lived there.
NorthBeachPerso
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That would be brush piles, and it's controlled, not banned, by Calvert County with a permit necessary to do it. There are carve outs in the ordinance for grills and outdoor fire structures of they are primarily used for the preparation of food.
Natron0915
Active Member
You're probably right, I was thinking the POACRE rules prohibited it. This brings up a question though, do I have to have a permit to burn brush in a field on my property?
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
As I might have said, I don't know about what CRE bans.
Yes, you need a permit:
Now, in reality, you can probably get away with it unless a neighbor complains and calls the fire department or you have an "incident" and catch your field and the surrounding woods on fire.
Natron0915
Active Member
Good info. Thanks for that! I know there's a guy down the road from me who's been burning construction and other debris associated with building a new garage. I'm fairly certain he hasn't a permit... My filed is between my house and a medium size hay farm and we get along well with them so my risk would likely just be an "incident."
LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
I'll be damned if I'm gonna ask for permission and pay the County $10 dollars so I can burn a wood clippings pile or a pile of leaves. Ain't gonna happen. And since when has DNR ever been involved in Harry homeowner burning a pile of leaves or wood clippings?
I'll be damned if I'm gonna ask for permission and pay the County $10 dollars so I can burn a wood clippings pile or a pile of leaves. Ain't gonna happen. And since when has DNR ever been involved in Harry homeowner burning a pile of leaves or wood clippings?
NorthBeachPerso
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Since they were given the authority to be involved. A lot of locales have been enacting burn bans over the last couple decades with the stated reason of air quality.
North Beach was founded/established over a hundred years ago and open burning has always been banned here per the Town Charter (it also set out how often your outhouse had to be cleaned out so there's that).
I think that right now that open burning would be inadvisable in any event due to the high fire danger that's been declared. I don't know if a burn ban has been declared.
Yeah, I know you wouldn't have an issue controlling a fire but start counting the stupid people you know who would get bored and wander off.
NorthBeachPerso
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The Editor already posted this as its own subject but I thought I'd do it here since it's pertinent to this thread:
news.maryland.gov