A Fireplace Store and More · Downers Grove, IL
Fireplace Store Serving Lombard, IL
We sell, install and service fireplaces for Lombard homes from our showroom on 75th Street in Downers Grove, about 20 minutes down I-355. See the size, the finish and the log set on our floor first. Bring a photo of your brick fireplace, or of the wall in the new addition, and go home knowing what fits and how it vents.
About A Fireplace Store and More
A Fireplace Store and More serves Lombard, Illinois from its showroom at 1202-B 75th Street in Downers Grove: gas, wood, pellet and electric fireplaces, inserts, stoves and gas logs from nineteen brands, installed and serviced by the store’s own team. Showroom open seven days (Mon–Fri 10–5, Sat 11–4, Sun 1–4); in-home estimates in Lombard. (630) 241-1919.
- About 20 minutesfrom Lombard to the showroom on 75th Street
- 19 brandshand-picked for reliability, installed and serviced by us
- Our own teamsells it, installs it and services it
- Open 7 daysMon–Fri 10–5 · Sat 11–4 · Sun 1–4
Why Lombard homes end up on our floor
The older streets around Lilacia Park and downtown, from St. Charles Road south toward Maple Street, are full of bungalows, Cape Cods and brick colonials from the 1920s through the 1950s. Their fireplaces were built for wood, and many sit unused: the damper leaks cold air, the brick needs work, or hauling logs stopped being fun. A gas insert or a log set brings it back, and the room keeps its brick and its mantel.
The ranches and split-levels from the 1960s and 1970s on the south and east sides of town often have a raised-hearth brick fireplace in the family room. We update those with a new insert, a glass door and a proper mantel, or take the wall down to the studs for a linear gas fireplace and a stone face. The townhomes and condos near Yorktown Center and along Butterfield Road have shared walls and limited venting, so an electric fireplace or a small direct-vent gas unit is usually the answer.
And every year Lombard has a run of additions and basement finishes. A family room off the kitchen or a finished lower level is the right moment to add a direct-vent gas fireplace, because the vent can go straight out the wall while the framing is still open.
What we do for Lombard
- Design and installation
For a Lombard addition or basement finish we measure while the framing is open, plan a vent straight out the wall, and set the unit before the drywall goes up.
- Gas inserts and gas logs
The brick fireplaces between St. Charles Road and Maple Street take a sealed insert with its own liner; a vented log set suits the ones you want left open, brick and mantel untouched.
- Chimney cleaning, inspection and repair
Lombard’s older flues are clay tile, and freeze and thaw cracks the tiles and empties the joints; we clean and inspect on one visit, write it up, then reline, recap or tuckpoint.
- Doors, screens, mantels and surrounds
A tight glass door stops the draft up a bungalow flue north of Roosevelt Road, a mesh screen suits an open log set, and a wood or cast stone mantel dresses a 1970s raised hearth. See doors and screens or mantels and surrounds.
- Electric fireplaces
For the townhomes and condos along Butterfield Road and by Yorktown Center, where venting is limited and the association has a say; the electric models are lit on our floor so you can compare flames.
- Service and repair
Pilots that drop out, ignitions that click, remotes, fogged glass, and a yearly service on the gas units in Lombard’s ranches and split-levels, ours or not.
Getting to the showroom from Lombard
From downtown Lombard, head south on Main Street to Roosevelt Road, then take Finley Road or Highland Avenue south to Butterfield Road and get on I-355 south. Get off at 75th Street and head east into Downers Grove. In normal traffic it is about 20 minutes, a little less from the Yorktown end. We are at 1202-B 75th Street with a lot in front of the door; walk in during open hours, or reserve a time for an unhurried sit-down with your photos.
The question we hear most from Lombard is whether an old brick fireplace can go to gas without losing the brick and the mantel. Three photos settle most of it: the whole wall from mantel to hearth, straight up the flue with the damper open and the flash on, and the side of the house with the gas meter. Add the width, height and depth of the opening, and a showroom visit ends with a shortlist and a rough idea of the venting. The in-home estimate that follows is free and written.
Permits and inspections in Lombard
A new fireplace, a gas insert or a new gas line in Lombard needs a permit from the Village of Lombard Building Division. The division reviews the plan, issues the permit and sends an inspector at the stages of the job, and the fireplace is signed off before you use it. That paperwork is ours to carry: the application, the inspection bookings and the inspector’s visit are part of what you hire us for. A log set going into an existing fireplace usually needs a permit for the gas line too.
Fireplace types we install
Lombard asks first for gas inserts and gas log sets, because so many of its fireplaces are brick. Next come direct-vent gas fireplaces for additions and basement family rooms, then electric fireplaces for the townhomes and condos by Yorktown. We also install wood-burning fireplaces and stoves and outdoor fireplaces for the patio. Lopi and Fireplace Xtrordinair inserts, RealFyre log sets, Majestic direct-vent units and Dimplex and Modern Flames electric models are all lines we carry, hand-picked because they are reliable, and one showroom visit, with the electric displays lit, usually settles gas or electric.
Questions we get from Lombard
Our 1920s house near Lilacia Park has a small, shallow fireplace. Can anything go in it?
Usually. Compact vented log sets are made for shallow openings, and a small insert can work if the flue takes a liner. Give us the opening’s width, height and depth and a photo up the chimney, and we will show you what fits.
Will the Village of Lombard inspect a gas log set, or only a full fireplace?
Expect an inspection either way. A log set brings a new gas line to the fireplace, and the Building Division wants to see that line before it is used. The permit and the inspection are ours to handle, not yours.
Our 1960s split-level has a raised brick hearth that just makes the family room cold. What fixes that?
The open damper and the unsealed firebox are letting warm air up the flue. A sealed gas insert closes the box off and turns it into a heater with a blower, and it sits well on a raised hearth. A tight glass door is the smaller fix if you still burn wood.
We are in a townhome off Butterfield Road near Yorktown. What can we put in?
With an outside wall, a small direct-vent gas fireplace vents straight through it. Without one, or where the association says no, an electric fireplace set into the wall or a mantel gives you the flame on a plug; the lit electric models on our floor let you compare them.
Can you do the chimney work and the insert on the same job?
That is how we prefer it. Our chimney crew checks the flue, fits the liner and fixes the cap or crown, and our installers set the insert and the surround, on one written estimate and one schedule. For chimney work on its own, see our Lombard chimney page.
Do you convert a wood-burning fireplace to gas in Lombard?
Yes. A Fireplace Store and More converts wood-burning fireplaces to gas in Lombard and across the western suburbs of Chicago — a direct-vent gas insert or a vented gas log set fitted into the existing fireplace, installed and serviced by the store's own team from the showroom at 1202-B 75th Street, Downers Grove. Every conversion starts with a showroom visit or an in-home estimate.
Nearby towns we also serve
Lombard is one of many DuPage County towns our installers and chimney crew work in every week from Downers Grove.
A Fireplace Store and More · Downers Grove, IL
Ready when you are.
From Lombard it is about 20 minutes down I-355 to our showroom on 75th Street. Bring the measurements of that small pre-war firebox and leave knowing what fits.
Showroom hoursMon–Fri 10–5Sat 11–4Sun 1–41202-B 75th St, Downers Grove
Our showroom, 75th Street, Downers Grove