Marble Hearth Help
We’re recently completing a renovation on an old brownstone. We couldn’t replace the subfloor on our parlor floor but did update the top flooring. The floor has a slope to it and this has created a tricky situation with a fireplace hearth that we need to replace. The bottom of the sides of the mantel…
We’re recently completing a renovation on an old brownstone. We couldn’t replace the subfloor on our parlor floor but did update the top flooring. The floor has a slope to it and this has created a tricky situation with a fireplace hearth that we need to replace. The bottom of the sides of the mantel and firebox are a few inches below the floor, so the hearth won’t appear even from the firebox outward into the parlor (probably an inch and a half difference in grade) without some clever marble design and placement. Curious if anybody has faced this or has experience with someone that has handled details like this before.
I’ve done essentially what brucef said. Depending upon the amount of space needed to get the stone level with the floor, oftentimes and extra heavy layer of thinset or morat does the trick
Not sure exactly what you are saying, but hope this helps.
What we do in these cases is have a new hearth fabricated from an attractive piece of stone. We often get nice buys because the size you need , maybe 12″X66″ is a size that is frequently left over at the stoneyard from a slab that has already made a few counters. Maybe in your case choose a thicker slab, and have them bevel the three sides.
We fir up the outside edge level with poplar strips, and trim around with oak (or matching material) molding, mitered at the front. Once you paint the poplar black and caulk with matching colored caulk, it looks like it was supposed to be that way.
You can contact me bruce at jerseydata.net