Frequently Asked Questions

Start with your situation: a blank wall, an open masonry fireplace, a sealed-up fireplace, a freestanding stove, an outdoor area, or new construction. The instant fireplace estimate narrows Tate Builders Supply's catalog to the units that fit that situation, and our team confirms the choice at your appointment, at your place or in the Erlanger showroom.

Gas lights with a switch, heats the room, and needs the least attention. Wood gives you real logs and the most heat per unit. Pellet burns wood pellets on a thermostat. Electric needs no venting and plugs in. Tate Builders Supply carries all four, and the wall for each fuel shows every unit we carry with an installed estimate.

A fireplace is a complete unit built into a wall or framed opening. An insert is a sealed firebox that slides into an existing open masonry fireplace and turns it into an efficient heater. If you have an open fireplace today, an insert is usually the answer; if you have a blank wall or new construction, a fireplace is.

Mendota, Kozy Heat, Ambiance, Napoleon, Fireplace Xtrordinair, Lopi, Hearthstone, Blaze King, and Supreme for fireplaces, stoves, and inserts, plus RH Peterson and Hargrove gas logs. Every unit we carry has its own page with an installed estimate, and more than 50 of them burn live in our showrooms.

Face brick is full-depth: It builds the wall on new construction and additions. Thin brick is the same kiln-fired clay sliced thin for remodels, accent walls, and fireplace surrounds where a full-depth wall isn't practical. Tate carries both, from the same manufacturers, and each has its own page: face brick and clay pavers and thin brick.

Anything vertical you finish a wall with. At Tate Builders Supply that runs from flexible real-stone sheets you can bend around corners to large-format architectural panels, for interior and exterior walls alike. See wall siding.

Yes. More than 50 fireplaces, stoves, and inserts burn live across our two showrooms at 3511 Dixie Highway in Erlanger, Kentucky. It is the fastest way to know what a photo can't tell you.

Yes, and it is the whole point. The team that quotes your fireplace, brick, or stone is the team that installs it and answers for it afterward. That is hundreds of installations a year across the tri-state.

Across the Cincinnati tri-state: Northern Kentucky, Southwest Ohio, and Southeast Indiana, from our yard at 3511 Dixie Highway in Erlanger. Builders and contractors get job-site delivery scheduled by the same team that supplied the order.

Yes. Pick up at our yard in Erlanger, Kentucky, weekdays 7am to 5pm and Saturday 8am to noon, or have it delivered. Whatever works best for your project.

It depends on the unit and the venting your home needs, so our team gives you a clear timeline at your appointment rather than a promise we can't keep. Once the unit is on hand and the date is set, the same team that quoted it does the work.

Yes. Tate Builders Supply services and repairs gas, wood, pellet, and electric fireplaces, stoves, and inserts on every make we carry, from annual maintenance to diagnostics and repairs. Schedule service online or call 859-727-1212.

Yes. A gas log set or a gas insert turns an open masonry fireplace into one-switch fire. Tell us about your fireplace, and we'll walk you through both options and price them.

3511 Dixie Highway, Erlanger, Kentucky 41018, just south of Cincinnati. We are open weekdays 7am to 5pm and Saturday 8am to noon, closed Sunday. Call 859-727-1212 or email sales@tatesupply.com.

No. Come in during business hours and someone who knows the products will help you. Scheduling an appointment means the right person is ready for you and the displays on your list are burning.

Plans if you have them, a photo of the wall or the space, and rough measurements. For a service visit, the manufacturer and model of the unit and a plain description of what it is doing.

Since 1928. Tate has anchored the same stretch of Dixie Highway in Erlanger for nearly a century, supplying and installing fireplaces, brick, stone, and outdoor living for homeowners, builders, and contractors across the tri-state.