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Build Your Own Fireplace
By | January 26, 2010
I am one of those independent ‘do it yourself’ kind of people. I have so many DIY books, I almost don’t have any room for them any longer. Since I badly wanted to build by own fireplace, I decided to do simply that. After all, how hard can it be build your own fireplace? I would soon learn the hard way that it was, well, hard.
I tried doing my research, only to find out that I didn’t understand half of the terminology. What on earth is mortar, and what exactly is a 2×4? That wasn’t a big deal, though. I could always harass the guys at the local hardware store until they explained things to me.
Unfortunately, I was going to have a party within the week I planned to have the fireplace completed. As a matter of fact, I was following a book entitled, “Build Your Own Fireplace in a Week.” So anyway, my house was in a state. There were pieces of stone on the floor, dried mortar on my hardwood floor, and this large box of some sort that I had tried to make.
This mess was all in the middle of my den floor. I wasn’t even halfway through. I had to keep cutting and re-cutting the stones, because I could never get them to fit together just right. So what did I do? I’ll tell you how I got my new fireplace:
I found the perfect fireplace I liked, swiped my credit card, and had the thing installed in my house in just three hours from the time they came by to do it! If you want to build your own fireplace, good luck - if you want to keep your sanity, skip the building and buy it from professionals!
Visit How To Build a Fire and get the tips, advice and insider tricks to Build a Fireplace that wont send your guests running for cover. Start your fireplace project today.
- Christine Julianne
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