Fire surrounds – how to guide
When choosing fire surrounds you want to ensure that you are in the know on the best way on installing your fire surround. The first option you could choose is to employ someone to fit the fire surround for you. The second option is to choose to install the fire surround yourself. This article is going to explore the latter; this article is aimed at offering you help and guidance on being able to install your very own fire surround. The article will then conclude by informing you on where you can find more information on fire surrounds and fire place surround.
Fire surrounds – first steps
Before you start you need to decipher if your fire is a gas or electric fire, if it is gas then you will need to get a gas safe plumber to remove the old fire and replace the new one. If your fire is electric then you can remove and place the new one in providing that you get an electrician to test the appliance. Now we have got the safety out of the way lets talk about installing the new fire surrounds. When installing your new fire surround it is important to follw some important steps, it is only after following all of these steps that you can be sure that you have completed an excellent job with installing your new fire surrounds. The steps that you need to follow are:
* Preparation
* Removing the old fire surround to make way for the new fire surrounds
* Removing a fireback and tidying up
* Do you need a flue?
* Removing old hearth and preparing the sub-base
* Laying the new hearth
* Installing the back panel
* Installing the mantel and mantel shelf
* Cleaning your new fire surrounds.
As you can see there are many steps that you need to follow to ensure that you have correctly installed your new fire surrounds. If you would still like more information then this can be found by entering the keywords ‘fire surrounds’ into an internet search engine.
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