Covering Fireplace With Tile

This marble fireplace tile surround makes a large impact in a small space.

Covering fireplace with tile. The resulting surround provides a uniform singular look. To begin pull back the paper from the corner of the tile until it is about a third of the way pulled back and stick the exposed adhesive to your surface. Add spacers beneath the first row if necessary to get application straight and level. It measures 70 inches across and 22 inches on each side.

If you are fed up of your fireplace that has the same design years and years then you might include tiles with some interesting pattern tiles. If you live an older home consider installing tile over brick fireplaces create a dramatic new look. A fireplace is a perfect spot to use a tile you love. The actual fireplace opening is in the lower center of the 12 feet.

Smooth the tile down with your hand. Porcelain ceramic glass marble and natural stone like travertine limestone and slate. It is a gas burning fireplace. As a suggestion we say that you can use glass mosaic tiles matching with some part of the furniture that will create drama around the fireplace and inside the entire living room.

More involved fireplace makeovers might incorporate a lightweight masonry product called manufactured veneer stone perfect for do it yourself work. Lay your first row of tile at the bottom of the fireplace making sure that the first row is level. Continue up the fireplace adding spacers between each row. Then pull back the rest of the backer.

After the tiles have dried for 24 hours remove the spacers and grout. My fireplace walls front and both sides from floor to ceiling is 12 feet high. While small tile and slab projects are diy friendly say covering the brick portion of a fireplace that features masonry nearest the fireplace opening and frames the structure with a wood. There are a multitude of tile materials that work well as fireplace surrounds.

It can be as simple as a fresh paint job on unfinished or previously painted brick. It has a porcelain ceramic tile that is 12 24 fairly recent redo with no grout lines. Or it can be a simple construction project where you cover up the brick with drywall wood or tile.