Building A Stone Fireplace Indoors

Most fireplace kits come with a one piece throat.

Building a stone fireplace indoors.

If you re doing mountain rock you ll need to select whether you want your fireplace to have the full grout look or a stacked stone look. We re building a natural stone fireplace surround because nothing says log cabin in the pines like a big solid natural stone fireplace. Use the glass door frame as a template for the sizing. Set this in refractory mortar on top of the firebox.

This will help when you begin the installation of the stone. The keystone and other stones on the arch should be a corner stone so it wraps along the inside of the arch making a finished appearance. It s a lot easier learning how to build a fireplace like this in new. Build the firebox itself with nine inch refractory mortar and firebrick laid on edge.

Place surrounding masonry up to the top of the throat and create a flat platform 13 1 2 inches above the top of the fireplace opening. Select your face type. Stone is the earliest and perhaps most enduring choice of material used for fireplace construction and for good reason. The throat frames the correct depth and width of the fireback.

Step 8 set the damper. Lay the firebrick so that they form the front edge of the covings and meet the back inside edge of the door frame. Build your fireplace out of the ones that don t split. The picture below also has the keystone in place centered in the arch.

Sturdy and irresistibly striking stone is the stuff of castles and fortresses and fire is naturally no exception. This is the companion video to our recent article on building a rumford style fireplace. A masonry fireplace consists of a brick or stone firebox a brick or stone chimney and more often than not a wood mantel. The fireplace opening is placed with steel frame glass door.

Apply mortar to a stone and then put the stone in place at the bottom left corner of the mantel. How to install stone on your fireplace and what not to do as well justdoityourself lovingit perfecteverytime subscribe now and hit the bell to get noti. 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. Stone fireplaces lend a majestic air to any home as well as reinforcement against the elements.

Now you have to points of reference for your first row of stones. Step 7 make a flat platform. You don t want to build a fireplace only to have several rocks pop and burst open from the water pressure expanding inside of them.