Fireplace

[JB4310]

QUOTE: how are you guys supporting all that weight if you have a basement?


If there is a basement, the whole footprint of the masonry structure continues through the 1st floor to a footing below the basement floor, only the hearths are partly or wholely supported by reinforced wood framing.

JB.

 

[gsganzer]

WOW, how did you get the wife to let you put the wildebeest up inside the house? You're doing better then I am. All my mounts are out in my workshop.

Eddie

It was really easy to get the wifes approval to let me hang the Wildebeest over the fireplace. The only other animal I have that would fit, was a warthog!

 

[Steve_Miller]

I was lucky, my father was a mason so I not only got the fireplace, I also built the whole house with brick. Mine is in the dining room as opposed to the living room.

Steve

 

[MikeInEburg]

Here is ours - way better than the old brick facade that we once had.

The very best part is the mantle - which is one of the original logs from the civil war era log cabin that is now our kitchen. This particular log was in direct ground contact for at least 50 years as a footer for an old tool shed that we renovated. It then sat in the weather for two years while we thought of something to do with it... We cleaned it up but left the tool markings from when it was originally cut some 150+/- years ago.
Mike

 

[jinman]

I was lucky, my father was a mason so I not only got the fireplace, I also built the whole house with brick. Mine is in the dining room as opposed to the living room.

Steve

Wow! Steve, that's a beautiful setting and a lovely house.

I rented a house (actually one floor of a 3-story house) in Port Deposit, MD when I was in the US Navy and going to a technical school in Bainbridge, MD. That house had originally been built with a fireplace in every room (kitchen, living room, bedrooms) I can't imagine the amount of wood it must have took to keep all those fireplaces going. When I lived there, the fireplaces were blocked off and steam heating was used, but it had not always been that way.

 

[asylum575]

Sure is the time of year to admire fireplaces. I'm planning a wood stove for next year, sure wish I had planned on it for this winter. Hey, look at the bright side. If I install a wood stove for next winter, it's a lock that we'll have a mild winter.