Fireplace

Today we worked on the fireplace hearth. Clearly, I had lots of help! The brick mortar was crumbling and the bricks were sagging so we removed all the bricks and the sand and concrete beneath them. My intentions are to replace the hearth bricks with tile and continue the tile on the surround right over the existing brick. Someone painted the mortar on the surround a sparkling silver, probably because it had blackened with age. It's not very appealing so instead of trying to remove the paint and repair the brick we'll go with a nice tile.