Hey all!
We are busily preparing our fireplace for our new stove. I was hoping to call upon the knowledge of the board members. Previous owners of our home for some reason decided it would be a good idea to paint our brick fireplace seen here:
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we have removed the cover and tried to strip some of the paint off using a non-toxic stripper (ready strip?). didn't work so well, we also found that there's another yellow layer of pain under the white. Lovely.
You can't really see it in the picture above, but the white paint (at least) is just latex and was cracked and peeling underneath the cover all around the opening of the fireplace. I was just going to just try to take off the cracked and peeling bits and paint over it with high heat paint (it seems complete removal is not really an option, unfortunately). Then I started thinking that since the stove is going to be sitting in the fireplace and sticking out 5 inches, most of the heat that radiates off the stove is going to be flowing right up the face of the painted brick on the wide face of the fireplace (seen in the picture, the other outlet is abotu half the size). My concern is, if there is standard latex paint UNDER the high heat paint, is there still chance of it bubbling up underneath the high heat paint? If so, how far away from the top of the stove does it need to be before the intensity of the heat is low enough where latex paint won't bubble up anymore? 1 brick? 2? all the way up that face? I really wish it was never painted in the first place, but it is what it is.
I can provide pictures of the fireplace as it looks now without the cover, and with as much progress as we've made if that would help. I appreciate your time.
-pr0v
We are busily preparing our fireplace for our new stove. I was hoping to call upon the knowledge of the board members. Previous owners of our home for some reason decided it would be a good idea to paint our brick fireplace seen here:
we have removed the cover and tried to strip some of the paint off using a non-toxic stripper (ready strip?). didn't work so well, we also found that there's another yellow layer of pain under the white. Lovely.
You can't really see it in the picture above, but the white paint (at least) is just latex and was cracked and peeling underneath the cover all around the opening of the fireplace. I was just going to just try to take off the cracked and peeling bits and paint over it with high heat paint (it seems complete removal is not really an option, unfortunately). Then I started thinking that since the stove is going to be sitting in the fireplace and sticking out 5 inches, most of the heat that radiates off the stove is going to be flowing right up the face of the painted brick on the wide face of the fireplace (seen in the picture, the other outlet is abotu half the size). My concern is, if there is standard latex paint UNDER the high heat paint, is there still chance of it bubbling up underneath the high heat paint? If so, how far away from the top of the stove does it need to be before the intensity of the heat is low enough where latex paint won't bubble up anymore? 1 brick? 2? all the way up that face? I really wish it was never painted in the first place, but it is what it is.
I can provide pictures of the fireplace as it looks now without the cover, and with as much progress as we've made if that would help. I appreciate your time.
-pr0v
