Home Improvement Today?

Cats LOVE oil heaters! They'll love you for getting them one!

 

Damn New England winters suck..

 

Needs cleaning but you get the idea

 

Nice! Thanks for the idea!

 

Looks awesome! I'll definitely tackle this soon!

 

I had a Faux river rock one in my first house I bought...It was in the corner of the living room. I dont know if I have a pic somewhere, I'll have to look. But it was a nice accent to the room.

 

My dad and I rebuilt our fireplace about 17 years ago. It started out like this.



We added a hearth, covered it in slate cut from 12 x 12 and hand built the mantle. That was before you could go to Home Depot and buy a pre-built one.



How it looks today.

 

My cat is in the utility room sitting next to hers, lol.

 

Looks amazing!

 

Having trouble figuout a smooth transition here. Cope the smaller one and not do a return?

Edit: here’s a bigger overall look.

 

What are your guys’ set ups for your miter saws?

I’m wanting to build a cart on wheels for mine with a small shop vac under it rigged to the vaccum behind the saw blade for better sawdust control.

Just wondering if you guys have any cool set ups that may give me better ideas.

 

But only a partial cope yeah? Leave the thickness of the offset to the outside I would think

 

whats the best way to secure this trim to the floor? it was on before with small nails. but the nail head pop up and i am looking suggestion. first time home owner here.

 

I used liquid nails on mine


I’m on a slab. If you are on a sub floor there should be a little metal track that the trim sits in (you can buy this at Home Depot or Lowes). You can drill that track into the floor and then the trim snaps into it.
Have no idea why the track was just laid there.

 

i am also on a slab, so you just used liquid nails and it solve your problems?

 

I glued the little track onto the slab with liquid nails. I did not want to drill into the slab with a mason bit, lay anchors and screw the track into the slab. But you can do that.
Like I said you can buy that little track at your local home improvement store and it should come with the hardware or just get a tub of glue.

 

An epoxy glue system or a polyurethane construction adhesive.

 

okay thanks guys i will try the liquid nail see if that works out, does it dry quick? reason i ask there alot of traffic going in and out from the room

 

Just a mock up but got it figured out

 

is that the track glued on the trim that your talking about?