This is how we left things last time.
Here we can see this wonderful High Tech Flue from the inside. Of course this is not much use by itself.
We have had issues in the past with hot coals and such falling out of wood stoves when the door was opened. This can get a bit exciting, sometimes a bit too exciting. In order to avoid all this The Fuzz planned to lay some fancy terracotta tile in this part of the room.
The guy at the Home Improvement Store said he would have to put this weird cement board stuff down first. So he got a couple pieces and screwed them down with lots of screws. (Every 8") Next he had to mix up this cement stuff. The bag had a picture of it being done with a powerful 1/2" drill. All The Fuzz had was a stick and garden trowel. He figured "Shoot, it works for mortar". But this stuff has some kind of "polymer" stuff in it and was like rubber.
The Fuzz struggled with it for a while, and finally gave up, hoping it was mixed good enough.
The next thing was to spread it out and lay the tiles in it. Since this was being used for fireproofing under a wood stove we decided to dispense with the fancy grout that would have to be kept clean, and simply butted the tiles together.
This left an edge of the cement-stuff-base exposed. But The Fuzz already had a plan. He cut these edge pieces from 1x4's. To make them fit over the edges, he stuck his dado blade in the table saw and ripped a edge to fit. He didn't even loose any fingers.
Next time we'll see how all this came together.
We have had issues in the past with hot coals and such falling out of wood stoves when the door was opened. This can get a bit exciting, sometimes a bit too exciting. In order to avoid all this The Fuzz planned to lay some fancy terracotta tile in this part of the room.
The guy at the Home Improvement Store said he would have to put this weird cement board stuff down first. So he got a couple pieces and screwed them down with lots of screws. (Every 8") Next he had to mix up this cement stuff. The bag had a picture of it being done with a powerful 1/2" drill. All The Fuzz had was a stick and garden trowel. He figured "Shoot, it works for mortar". But this stuff has some kind of "polymer" stuff in it and was like rubber.
The Fuzz struggled with it for a while, and finally gave up, hoping it was mixed good enough.
The next thing was to spread it out and lay the tiles in it. Since this was being used for fireproofing under a wood stove we decided to dispense with the fancy grout that would have to be kept clean, and simply butted the tiles together.
This left an edge of the cement-stuff-base exposed. But The Fuzz already had a plan. He cut these edge pieces from 1x4's. To make them fit over the edges, he stuck his dado blade in the table saw and ripped a edge to fit. He didn't even loose any fingers.
Next time we'll see how all this came together.
1 comment:
pretty sweet :)
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