How Do You Install Marble As A Fireplace Surround?
A fireplace used to take a true craftsman to build and often only installed when the house was under construction. Today the newer prefabricated fireplace units make it easy for anyone to have the warm toasty fire to warm their hands on a cold winter night. Whether you have a finished fireplace and want a change, or just installed a prefabricated one and need to cover it, natural products are the most popular today. Marble, while extremely popular now, never loses its appeal as a sign of good taste and opulence. Pick out the design for laying the marble fireplace surround. You’ll need to take the measurements that coincide with that design. It’s easiest if you draw a picture of the area with the design and put in the dimensions. When you buy the marble, allow the salesperson to help you with the amount of marble and materials you need. Buy a stress crack membrane to join areas where there are two different types of underlayment like where the metal on the prefabricated fireplace meets
