Removing A Granite Hearth From A Beehive Fireplace

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Removing a granite hearth from a beehive fireplace.

It s a brick and mortar hearth. Typically the hearth and fireplace are built before hardwood. A hearth must be made from a fire resistant material as there is always the possibility that fire will leave the fireplace. Whoever had built this fireplace in i e.

The problem i have is that i need to remove the hearth in front of the fire place so the wall unit sits flush up against the wall. I m wondering if all of the bricks on this hearth will come off leaving me with a flush surface where the bricks meet the fireplace. No dead birds but a shed load of sooty dust everywhere good job i had a dust mask on. Remove all brick that extends beyond the plane of the surrounding wall including the hearth.

Remodeling a living room or family room may include removing the fireplace hearth. It needs to be deep enough to hold a piece of cdx plywood 3 4 and the thickness of your finished floor. How to remove a brick hearth from a wood floor. Place the tiles back on the sub hearth starting from the center again and following the layout.

Ensure the hearth and any concrete below it is chipped down far enough to allow you to patch in a new sub floor and finish floor. Made the opening smaller hadn t even cemented the back bricks in so once id got the fireplace out and off the wall after chipping away the first lot of bricks i could just pull the rest out with my hand. Replacing a hearth and surround either with seamless tone slabs or with ceramic or stone tiles makes a big difference in the way a fireplace looks. Apply grout diagonally across all the joints of the tile using a float.

It is often constructed of brick tile cement or various natural stone materials such as granite or marble all of which are fire resistant.