New Hearth Pictures For My Breckwell P23

85.00 well done!

Beautiful - I just used the same slate for my hearth. I really like your wood border.
The slate is so easy to cut that I'm working on making receptacle covers out of it.
Would be a nice touch for the outlets behind the hearth.

'Frank

offroadaudio said:

Beautiful - I just used the same slate for my hearth. I really like your wood border.
The slate is so easy to cut that I'm working on making receptacle covers out of it.
Would be a nice touch for the outlets behind the hearth.

'Frank

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That looks great!

looks good, just out of curiosity whats that grate thing in the corner?

offroadaudio said:

Beautiful - I just used the same slate for my hearth. I really like your wood border.
The slate is so easy to cut that I'm working on making receptacle covers out of it.
Would be a nice touch for the outlets behind the hearth.

'Frank

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Hello Frank,

I am working on redoing my hearth with slate. I'm new with working with slate. What method do you use to cut slate? Thank you.

I used a wet saw, the same you would use for cutting ceramic or porcelain, but the slate is so easy to cut that I'm sure a glass-cutter type would work well.
You can buy a wet saw at HD for $70 and it will work great. I have about 4 jobs on mine and still going strong. So I'm ahead of the rental curve.
I had to make 2 of the stones in my mosaic border to get the pattern to match up. I just traced and cut the shape, then used sand paper to round-over the edges.

'Frank

HI,

It looks really wonderful. :coolsmile:
Did you build it in or make the pad freestanding? We were going to build ours in with 2X4's turned on their sides and OSB under the durarock. Is there a reason that you did not use OSB and that you made your base completely solid? We have slate that we removed from an entry that was turned into a closet.

Sandy

Hearth looks great. I personally would never put OSB under a stove install. Use solid plywood!