Fireplace
Fireplace – Tiling the Hearth
First time tiling… and I’ve got a very visible part of the room to practice on!
We really liked these tiles from Fired Earth – “Umbria Sandstone” – they’re porcelain but manufactured to look like natural stone. This is perfect for our hearth, as we have very rustic rough exposed stone to blend into an otherwise cleaner-cut room.
First problem — they’re too thick to cut with a normal “score and press” tile-cutter, so I purchased a cheapo circular saw type wet-cutter. Second problem, the irregular edge that looks so good on these make it more difficult to line up and measure. Other than that, everything went swimmingly.
Fireplace – Hearth Concrete Set
Having read various estimates on how long to leave concrete before tiling on top, I decided to just forget about it for a couple of weeks.
Now that it’s had plenty time, I can finally remove the frame
Fireplace – concrete for the hearth
Built this frame (hopefully to the right size) to pour concrete into….
Thanks to DPM for mixing and pouring….
Fireplace Project
We plan to install a wood burning (actually multi-fuel) stove. The first stage was taking out the old Victorian open fire surround.
Slightly sad to remove an original feature, but [Read more…]