Fire Features & Outdoor Living · Hollis, NH
Fire Features & Outdoor Living in Hollis, New Hampshire.
Building fire features & outdoor living in Hollis starts underground, on sandy loam over stony till. Orchard country with old walls lining every back road. We hand-set every stone to suit the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage of southern NH, and we build it to still be plumb in thirty years.
Hollis and the towns around it
Hollis sits in Hillsborough County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Southern NH — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
An outdoor room that gets used in Hollis
A fire feature is what stretches a Hollis yard from two usable seasons to three. We lay the space out on site first — seat height, circle diameter, how far the chairs sit from the flame, and which way the wind carries smoke across apple orchards and wooded rural lots on gentle hills — because geometry is what decides whether a fire pit gets used or ignored.
Only once that reads right do we set stone, wrapping the fire with seat walls and terrace so the whole space is designed around where people actually gather.
The honest numbers for Hollis
Two properties on the same Hollis street can differ by a third in price, and it is almost never the stone. It is access for machines, the base depth sandy loam over stony till calls for, how much water has to be managed, and whether existing planting has to be protected while we work.
You get an itemized scope after we walk the property — what is included, what is not, and where the money actually goes. No allowances that quietly become change orders halfway through.
Built to take real fire, for real years
A fire feature is a masonry structure, not decoration. We build on a footing carried below frost — which on sandy loam over stony till, well drained on the orchard slopes means going deeper than most expect — and line the core so the visible fieldstone or granite never takes the thermal punishment directly. That is why ours do not spall and crack after two winters.
Wood, gas, or a fire bowl: we run sleeves and gas lines during the build, and face the feature to suit the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage it belongs to.
Schedule and site care in Hollis
A job in Hollis is a few weeks of trucks, machines, and people in your yard. We plan staging and protection before day one — drive plates, root-zone protection, a defined material area — and leave the site clean each evening rather than at the end.
Questions
Fire Features & Outdoor Living in Hollis, answered.
A hand-built natural-stone fire pit generally runs $4,000 to $12,000+ depending on size, stone, whether it is wood or gas, and the seat walls and terrace built around it. A fire bowl or gas feature set into a larger terrace is priced with that scope.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds fire features & outdoor living throughout Hollis — from Hollis Center, Silver Lake, and Depot — and across Southern NH, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across New Hampshire, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
Apple orchards and wooded rural lots on gentle hills on sandy loam over stony till, well drained on the orchard slopes. That governs how we found and drain everything we build here — a proper base and drainage go in before a single stone is set, which is what keeps Hollis stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
Wood gives you the fire people actually want to sit around; gas gives you instant on-and-off and no smoke management. We build both — and if you are undecided, we can run the gas line during construction so the option stays open.
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