Covering brick fireplace

[streetdreams]

I have an old brick fire place in my home that i would love to cover with an engineered stone. But i am completely lost on what product would be best to use and how to apply it. It looks very similar to the one in the picture; i would also like to have the brick above a wall unit i am planning on installing on the drywall. Has any one covered over there old brick fireplace before? Mine is just a woodburning unit unlike the one in the picture.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/streetdreams/fire.jpg

[blitz]

I did mine with a stack stone I got from Home Depot. If the brick hasn't been painted, you can apply thinset directly to the new stone and just stick it on the brick.

Then I took the gold fireplace grill and sanded it down, then applied high temp flat black BBQ paint.

[Abeo]

shanxk8 put slate onto his painted brick fireplace, turned out quite nice. I'll ask if he has any pics and what he did

[C_Dave45]

Yeah it doesn't matter if the brick is painted or not. You can pretty much install anything directly onto it using a "modified" thinset.
Here's a painted brick fireplace I installed slate onto:

http://forums.beyond.ca/showthread.php?s=&threadid=286093


http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/CalgaryDave/Tile%20Work/IMG_8606.jpg

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/CalgaryDave/Tile%20Work/IMG_8645.jpg

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/CalgaryDave/Tile%20Work/IMG_8648.jpg

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/CalgaryDave/Tile%20Work/IMG_8660.jpg

[streetdreams]

love the look of the slate might do that instead of rock how would you go about applying slate to drywall would you have to screw cement board to it first?

[C_Dave45]

Originally posted by streetdreams
love the look of the slate might do that instead of rock how would you go about applying slate to drywall would you have to screw cement board to it first?

Nope. You can set the slate directly onto the drywall with the same thinset.

[shanxk8]

My installer was installing stacked stone (slate) over painted brick. In order to do this, he installed wire mesh and filled with a layer of mortar/thinset. After that was dried he applied the stone with a thinset. We also installed on top of a small wall and he used the same method with mesh over the drywall.

He indicated that he used the mesh to get more mass to solidly attach the stacked stone to.

The stacked stone looks amazing. We are very happy with the results.

[C_Dave45]

Originally posted by shanxk8
My installer was installing stacked stone (slate) over painted brick. In order to do this, he installed wire mesh and filled with a layer of mortar/thinset. After that was dried he applied the stone with a thinset. We also installed on top of a small wall and he used the same method with mesh over the drywall.

He indicated that he used the mesh to get more mass to solidly attach the stacked stone to.

The stacked stone looks amazing. We are very happy with the results.

That's a good method and while absolutely mandatory for an exterior application, it's not required for interior installs. We regularly install ledgestone, both natural and man-made, with just thinset directly onto the wall or brick. Here's a couple others I did

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/CalgaryDave/699d60f4.jpg

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/CalgaryDave/831cd025.jpg

[InRich]

looks like great work dave

[CapnCrunch]

Originally posted by C_Dave45




http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/CalgaryDave/831cd025.jpg

I love that type of stone/pattern.

[streetdreams]

Where would be a good place to go to price out some of the stone options?