While photographing the article build a fireplace brick by brick with experienced mason mike mehaffey deputy editor matt millham brought the fine homebuilding video team along to capture the process of building a modern fireplace inspired by the classic rumford design.
Diy brick veneer fireplace.
Fireplaces are often the focal point of a room s design but that doesn t mean that the need to the only thing installed on that wall.
Grant s former fireplace is an inviting canvas for the stone that awaits.
Take a chisel and a hammer and try to cut the thin stones until you can get the chisel behind it.
Then use the chisel and hammer to pry it off from behind.
Add about a cup of clean water to a clean five gallon bucket.
With some assistance he frames the fireplace using 2 x 4 pieces of wood.
The proper construction of a masonry fireplace takes preparation to avoid costly mistakes but the payoff is.
Traditionally a rumford fireplace is characterized by a tall shallow firebox designed to reflect heat out into a room instead of letting it all go up the c.
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Steps for refinishing a fireplace with brick veneer start by removing the old veneer.
This fireplace is flanked on either side by storage cabinets with both the cabinets and the firebox being framed by the same sage green stone veneer.
Bag is enough for the hearth legs and header of one fireplace.
Masonry fireplaces take a standard fireplace up a notch or two on the elegance scale due to the amount of work it requires and the high quality materials used to build them.
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Brick fireplaces are timeless and stand the test of time.
If you are setting two fireplaces mix the entire bag.
Cut a bag of thinset mortar in half using your trowel image 1.
In this next image you can see where grant has taken off and removed the original marblesque veneer that surrounds his original fireplace and covers the hearth.
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This is the companion video to our recent article on building a rumford style fireplace.