First time post so forgive me if I'm out of place.
Our home basement renovation is near completion and now down to the fireplace design. I've come up with the look we are happy with using Google Sketchup and now for the hard part - turning this into a real design. I haven't much experience with taking an idea and turning it into the instructions needed to make it happen. But give me an exploded view showing all the 2x4's, plywood layers, etc, and I can build it. So this is where I hope you on the forum can help me out. Below is a snipping of my design from Sketchup. Can someone be so kind and turn this into a design or building instructions? I can send the full sketchup model or more details. I would not expect a solution with the few details provided here and will provide more details as needed.
Some basics: the room is 12' x 21' x 7.5'. The mantel will be a solid beam, 6" tall by 6" deep, spanning the 12' width of the room. The fireplace (Valor Horizon) depth is 16" minimum from the wall. The outside grade is about 2' down from the ceiling so the vent pipe leave the fire box vertically and exits through the wall about 1' from the ceiling. The room walls and ceiling are finished. The subfloor is ready for the floating laminate flooring system. The stone wall be cultured stone that comes in 6" tall x 12" panels to make application easy.
I attached seen screen shoots from the Sketchup design and I'm not sure if they show up when posted.
If interested, I could attach the sketchup design file.
The immediate question I'm trying to answer today is what thickness to expect the hearth stone to be. 2-1/4"? 1-3/4"? Is there such a thing as a standard size?
Thanks, Barry
P.S. I posted the same question on the Wood Magazine forum and got some limited responses. I hope this doesn't break posting rules.
Our home basement renovation is near completion and now down to the fireplace design. I've come up with the look we are happy with using Google Sketchup and now for the hard part - turning this into a real design. I haven't much experience with taking an idea and turning it into the instructions needed to make it happen. But give me an exploded view showing all the 2x4's, plywood layers, etc, and I can build it. So this is where I hope you on the forum can help me out. Below is a snipping of my design from Sketchup. Can someone be so kind and turn this into a design or building instructions? I can send the full sketchup model or more details. I would not expect a solution with the few details provided here and will provide more details as needed.
Some basics: the room is 12' x 21' x 7.5'. The mantel will be a solid beam, 6" tall by 6" deep, spanning the 12' width of the room. The fireplace (Valor Horizon) depth is 16" minimum from the wall. The outside grade is about 2' down from the ceiling so the vent pipe leave the fire box vertically and exits through the wall about 1' from the ceiling. The room walls and ceiling are finished. The subfloor is ready for the floating laminate flooring system. The stone wall be cultured stone that comes in 6" tall x 12" panels to make application easy.
I attached seen screen shoots from the Sketchup design and I'm not sure if they show up when posted.
If interested, I could attach the sketchup design file.
The immediate question I'm trying to answer today is what thickness to expect the hearth stone to be. 2-1/4"? 1-3/4"? Is there such a thing as a standard size?
Thanks, Barry
P.S. I posted the same question on the Wood Magazine forum and got some limited responses. I hope this doesn't break posting rules.