The face brick can be easily painted, keeping in mind the firebox will need to have a metal shield to keep the heat/smoke marks from making streaks in light paint.
Do you want to paint the mortar? If not, you need to pick a paint color that doesn’t contrast too much with your existing brick so that you’re not painting the edges of the brick next to the mortar?
Forget the name, but you need to clean it first withtsp and then a special paint hat can bear heat. Any paint store can guide you.
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The face brick can be easily painted, keeping in mind the firebox will need to have a metal shield to keep the heat/smoke marks from making streaks in light paint.
Do you want to paint the mortar? If not, you need to pick a paint color that doesn’t contrast too much with your existing brick so that you’re not painting the edges of the brick next to the mortar?
Clean first with TSP or a TSP substitute.
Here you go!
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