5 Best Of How To Hang A Wooden Mantel On Brick Best Wallpaper JPG. Learn how to restore and paint your brick fireplace and how to hang a simple rustic wood beam mantel. Determine Where the Mantel Will Hang.
This is an easy project with a few very important st. Half inch holes are drilled with masonry bits through the fireplace bricks and reaching the wall studs to correspond with similar drills using a wood bit in the mantel mounting at 16 intervals. Materials Needed to Install a Mantel On a Brick Fireplace Solid piece of wood for the mantel we found ours at a surplus building material store local to us Corbelsdepending on your mantel these could be structural or just for decor purposes Drill with a masonry bit 10 x.
Measure the thickness of the shelf at the back of the mantel.
Then mark the right and left edges of the shelf ensuring that the mantel will be perfectly centered over the fireplace opening. Please hit that Like Button and SubscribeClick the following link to get my FREE Ebooks and Real Estate Investment Tools. Determine the height of the mantle on the brick fireplace. Push the mantel against the wall using the drawn lines.