Fireplaces

Learn how to build and install a fireplace mantel, install a platform for a freestanding fireplace, reface a fireplace, repair a firebox floor, repair a leaking fireplace gas valve, and clean a rock-faced fireplace with compressed air. These real questions and real answers may help you explore and address your own fireplace issues.

Installing a fireplace mantel?

Installing mantelshelf for existing stone fireplace?

Properly installed platform key for freestanding fireplace?

Refacing or restoring a fireplace?

Repair a firebox floor?

Repairing a leaking fireplace gas valve?

What a mess this fireplace is in; what a mess to clean it up?