How to Clean the Front of a Brick Fireplace
A fireplace adds beauty and warm to make a room look and feel good. The front of the fireplace can easily accumulate soot and creosote, which can take away from the beauty and warmth. This is why the fireplace front needs regular cleaning.
How to Clean the Front of a Brick Fireplace
Materials Needed
- Tack strip
- Z bar
- Utility knife or razor blade
- Straight edge
- Glue
- Hammer
- Nails
- Locate the edge of the carpet where to you want to connect the carpet to the tile. Trim the carpet padding back about ¼ inch to allow space for the tack strip that will be installed there. Use a utility knife or razor blade to cut the padding. Place a straight edge to keep the carpet padding straight while cutting.
- Apply glue to a Z bar and attach it to the tack strip. Allow the glue to dry for two hours or more, if needed. The Z bar is attached so the carpet can be easily attached to it when connecting the carpet and tile.
- Place a tack strip across the front of the carpet. The nails on the tack strip should face the carpet. Make sure the nails on the tack strip are slanted in a position away from the front of the carpet. Take a hammer and nail the tack strip into the carpet.
- Take the overlapping carpet and tuck it over and under the Z bar and tack strip. Hammer the carpet down with short small nails