The same week Steve and Tammy were visiting, Steve (the contractor) and his son Tyler were up at the cabin to finish the chimney.
On the outside of the house, in the screen room, a cinder block chimney was built, there is a real fireplace. On the inside a facade of cement board was built, we are going to put a wood stove in there. The cultured stone is attached to those. Cultured stone is a veneer that looks and feels like real stones. There are flat pieces and corner pieces. Here Steve is fitting corner pieces onto the outside part of the chimney.
After he puts up a couple of feet of corners, he starts filling in the flat pieces.
And just keeps going until he gets to the top.
After all of the stones are put on, Steve used a big pastry bag to fill-in with mortar. He let it dry for a couple of hours, then kind of smoothed it out then used a brush to remove any marks.
Isn't this gorgeous!
We are so happy with the way this looks. Steve did such a nice job, he order a mix of stones so there would be both yellows and reds.
This finished the inside of the chimney, but Steve couldn't finish the outside because of all of the rain. It finally quit raining on Friday, so first thing Steve and Tyler cut a huge hole in the roof.
After they cut the hole, they could finish building the cinder block part out and up through the roof. Then finish the stone veneer.
Here is the completed chimney.
