New fireplace

[Bowyer]

Here is our old fire place.
We never really liked the gray marble. I built this mantel many years ago and it's time for a change.
After giving the front of the house a facelift, I had some stone left over and some brick left over from the smokehouse. So I had to use all these leftovers for something.

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[Bowyer]

Out with the old.


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[Bowyer]

Now need to build a wall strong enough to hold the stone.
3/4" plywood framed with cedar.

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[Bowyer]

Oh yeah, this isn't a real fireplace anymore.
We might add a gas stove later.
We'll see...

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[Bowyer]

The mantel is a 2" slab of cedar.

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[Bowyer]

Framing all finished, time for some brick. Well sort of brick. The brick in the floor is some old brick donated by another tbh member. I liked the old look.
The brick inside is a veneer, real brick just 1/2" thick. The veneer was purchased from Amazon. Yall should have seen the little UPS girl carrying 100 lbs of brick veneer up the steps!


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[Bowyer]

I used a thin set mortar for the veneer right on the plywood. Hope this holds up. They said it would at YouTube university.
I guess I'll be remodeling again in a couple years if they were wrong!

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[Bowyer]

Now for the hardie board backing for the stone.
I'll come back to this again in a bit.

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[Bowyer]

Now more of the brick donated by Lynn21 for the arch.

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[Bowyer]

Ok, stone backer board finished over the arch and started putting wire mesh on then cover the whole thing with mortar.

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[Bowyer]

Going to place the stone under the mantel first.

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[Bowtech38]

Looking good so far

[Bowyer]

Now stone above the mantel.

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[Bowyer]

Looking good so far

Thanks!

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[Bowyer]

I grossly miscounted the veneer and had to order more from Amazon.
This time the UPS driver asked me what was in the box that weighed so much!

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