Hello everyone.
I've looked all over for an answer to this question, and never really gotten anything satisfactory. I hope you can help me.
I own a home that was built sometime in the very late 1940's-early 1950's. The open fireplace floor and hearth are a broken pieces of terra cotta tile, cemented in place with some kind of very heavy-duty, dark gray grout. The whole thing is one level, flush with the hardwood floors in the living room. The tiles are all in good shape, no chips or cracks. They were broken prior to installation, which is a common treatment on front porches around here.
For purely aesthetic reasons, we would like to retile over the top of the clay tiles. While I think doing that over the hearth part of the tile would probably be fine, I'm at a loss about the firebox itself. And nobody at the mega tile store I went to could really help us with what kind of tile would be safe in a firebox.
Any thoughts/suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!
I've looked all over for an answer to this question, and never really gotten anything satisfactory. I hope you can help me.
I own a home that was built sometime in the very late 1940's-early 1950's. The open fireplace floor and hearth are a broken pieces of terra cotta tile, cemented in place with some kind of very heavy-duty, dark gray grout. The whole thing is one level, flush with the hardwood floors in the living room. The tiles are all in good shape, no chips or cracks. They were broken prior to installation, which is a common treatment on front porches around here.
For purely aesthetic reasons, we would like to retile over the top of the clay tiles. While I think doing that over the hearth part of the tile would probably be fine, I'm at a loss about the firebox itself. And nobody at the mega tile store I went to could really help us with what kind of tile would be safe in a firebox.
Any thoughts/suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!
