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And I'm looking for hearth ideas I'd like something different like polished concrete I've has a google and there's not much about small scale concrete polishing
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Your hole looks like mine did. 😉
Now looks like this.
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Looks good! What did you use for the plate to seal off the chimney? Unfortunately the brick arch on mine is a bit rough so I'm going to plaster over them
We've got a steel "lintel" strip under the bricks in the arch. The register plate is just thin galvanised steel sheet, sprayed with the same paint as the stove. Just bolted on with self tappers. The fitters did a good job of it TBF.
Not a great photo. No flash on the ipad.
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We just stuck a huge piece of slate under ours.
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All I can see is someone with turf on the living room floor...
All I can see is someone with turf on the living room floor...
Turf that could do with a trim.
Micro habitat innit
Tip: make sure the heart extends by loads. Ours isn't big enough, so there are lots of burn marks in the carpet.
Also, don't do as our fitters did and place the hearth on the underlay and then be surprised to be hauled back from Yorkshire because the stove is slowly sliding off its stand.
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We're having our fire installed with a Slate hearth.
I fancied something different really, had a look at some limestone today still undecided
If your fitting a limestone hearth and it's a light colour be sure and seal it top and bottom
Could you cast a larger concrete slab in the garden and cut what you need out of that once it's polished.
I hired a polisher to do my house floor, about the size of an upright hoover. Don't see why it wouldn't work.
After seeing my floor polished, I reckon it would be cool to make a concrete slab with some red/ white / interesting stone and polish it up.
Our multi-fuel is on a big slab of compact sandstone from a local quarry, chamfered on the edges. Installing it was interesting; I ended up sliding it in on wood rails then withdrawing the rails to drop the slab onto some sandy mortar.
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There's now a false cedar lintel above it, hung on concealed mirror plates.
Wouldn't mind knocking my chimney breast out and getting a wood burning stove/gas effect one.
What sort of difference in cost are they and pros/cons of gas effect?
Wood burners are messy, take effort to look after, no cheaper than gas unless you can get free wood and are expensive to put in.
On the plus side, you get to own manly tools like mauls and chainsaws, they kick out immense amounts of heat and look great.
Wood burners are messy, take effort to look after, no cheaper than gas unless you can get free wood and are expensive to put in.
Unless you don't have mains gas, in which case even an expensive one will pay for itself in a short time.