Removing A Granite Hearth From A Beehive Fireplace

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.

Removing a granite hearth from a beehive fireplace.

Typically the hearth and fireplace are built before hardwood. It s a brick and mortar hearth. How to remove a brick hearth from a wood floor. Whoever had built this fireplace in i e.

It is often constructed of brick tile cement or various natural stone materials such as granite or marble all of which are fire resistant. 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. 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. It needs to be deep enough to hold a piece of cdx plywood 3 4 and the thickness of your finished floor.

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. On these pages dan mclaughlin with help from carpenter thad king shows how to replace an old quarry tile hearth and cover a brick surround with four sleek granite slabs each 1 inches think. 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. Remodeling a living room or family room may include removing the fireplace hearth.

A hearth must be made from a fire resistant material as there is always the possibility that fire will leave the fireplace. Place the tiles back on the sub hearth starting from the center again and following the layout. No dead birds but a shed load of sooty dust everywhere good job i had a dust mask on. Once the layout is complete remove the tiles and lay a base of thinset on the sub hearth using the notched side of a notched trowel.

Wait 24 hours for the thinset to set.