My fireplace has a smooth cement type hearth which has developed a couple stains. One stain was from cleaning the soot covered glass insert. The other is from a wooden decoration which apparently had some pine pitch. I’ve tried the floor dry stuff that’s supposed to clean oil from your garage floor. No help there. [...]
I’m trying to remove a Hawke wood burning fire place insert from my mother-in-laws and put in in my fireplace. I measured it and it should fit, but I have no idea where to start. Any ideas?
It cannot climb back out because of the slippery metal insert. Could it climb out if I lowered a rope down there?
A home we recently bought has a great stone fireplace. Unfortunately, the last owners spilled candlewax on the stone mantel. We’ve tried a ton of different things to try and remove it, from stain removers to scraping. Any success stories out there? Ideas? Please share! Thanks!
I should mention the mantel is not painted, it’s not [...]
I never use my gas fireplace because of the cost of natural gas however I would like to take my gas logs out, shut off the gas and make it wood burning. Is that possible/safe? It is an all brick fireplace and chimney. It has a fairly large flue so I think it could accomodate [...]
I have old outdated fireplace doors inset into my brick fireplace and would love to remove them. We can’t burn wood fires in our fireplace so having the doors isn’t really necessary and I would like to do something a bit more 2009, not 1979. Anyone that can provide help would be much [...]