The Average Measurement For Installing A Corner Fireplace

Juliet D'cruz

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Fireplaces in the stone corner.

The middle part of the room is a fireplace in a stone corner. Either round or flat, b smooth or rough a variety of sizes, shapes, and textures, or a mix of varied sizes. An important and welcome presence has a cornerstone home!

Design by company

Below is the living room of “Brookside”, a romantic cottage overlooking Lake Michigan. This delightful stay refuge is centered by a solid stone house, designed by SALA Architects and has offices in Stillwater and Minneapolis, Minnesota. It climbs from floor to floor and boasts a beautiful array of natural stones and round stones in various sizes. A powerful lintel of stone supports a lot of the aforementioned weight. It is supported by a large stone slab to the right of the combustion chamber opening and a series of stacked stones to the left that, in turn, rests on a raised stone hearth, also supported by boulders below it.

Eye-catching, this eye-catching stone font extends into an adjoining outdoor patio. A second firebox and a flute are wrapped around the exterior corner of the structure.

Recommendations for corner fireplaces

Fireplaces with openings greater than 6 square feet call for larger homes. The front of the home should extend a minimum of 20 inches and side areas should extend 12 inches. The recommended thickness for corner fireplaces remains the same.

How to measure mantles and get around the fireplace

Before you start shopping for fireplace mantels and frames, you should know your home measurements, fireplace surroundings, and a few other key items. With those figures in hand, you can detect a mantel or mantelpiece and frame that will suit the scale of your fireplace and the look of your room.

Determine what to measure

If you are replacing your current shelf and/or frame. then you should measure that. If you are installing a new mantel or frame around a fireplace that does not have one, you will need to take different measurements.

Measure existing shelf and surroundings

Projection Depth:  The depth Measurement of the frame side from the outside edge to the wall.

Opening Width: Measure the width of the chimney opening.

Opening Height: Measure the height of the chimney opening from the floor or top of the chimney surface to the top of the opening.

Side Distances: Measure from or around the edge of the fireplace to the closest lamp, window, corner, or door on each side.

Shelf Width: Measure the entire width of the highest of the mantel at the widest part.

Shelf Depth: From the front edge to the wall, measure the depth of the mantle.

Overall Height: Measure the height of the mantel from the top of the hearth to the top of the shelf.

Overall Width: Measure the entire width of the fireplace frame from one end to the other. If you don’t have a border, measure the full width of the siding.

Measuring a new shelf and environment

If you’ve got a hearth without a shelf or surround. then I would follow these measurements. These measurements assume you have a liner, which is a decorative material such as brick or stone that surrounds the fireplace opening. If you don’t have a face, skip those measurements. If you don’t have a hearth, which is a raised accent surface on the floor below the fireplace opening, measure from the floor and omit the hearth measurements.

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Opening Width: Measure the width of the chimney opening.

Opening height: Measure the peak of the opening from the ground of the fireside, which is at an equivalent level because of the hearth, or the ground of the space if you are homeless.

Fireplace Height: From the floor to the top of the surface, measure the height of the hearth.

Hearth Depth: From the front edge to the wall, measure the depth of the hearth.

Hearth Width: Measure the width of the hearth from one end to the other.

Side Distances: Measure from the edge of the facing to the closest lamp, door, corner, or window on each side.

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Siding Height: Measure the siding height from the top of the hearth to the top of the siding.

Overall liner width: Measure the overall width of the liner from one end to the other.

Liner Width: Measure the width of the liner on one side of the fireplace opening.

Sheathing Depth: If the sheathing is sticking out of the wall, measure the distance from the outside edge to the wall.

If you currently do not have a rep fireplace and a frame. Consult local building codes or fire safety departments for minimum distance from fireplace opening to mantel and frame.