How to Buy a Fireplace Hearth Pad

A fireplace hearth pad can help you protect the floor under your woodburning furnace or fireplace from the heat as well as the sparks and burning embers that often spark from your wood burning fireplace. Follow these steps to find the many different styles and varieties of materials available in a fireplace hearth pad.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Determine how large you need your fireplace hearth pad to be. Then choose what shape you want the hearth pad, from odd shaped hearth pads that sit against the corner of your walls to traditional shapes that sit against the length of the hearth.

2. Consider your many options from stores like American Royal that carries a wide range of wood burning furnaces as well as hearth pads, to Ace Hardware and Hearth where you can select from more than 30 styles of hearth pads such as teardrop shaped, octagonal, oval or more traditional rectangular. These include different surface materials such as tile, slate or granite.

3. Pick the type of surface of your hearth pad after you have the options from the size and shape you picked out. Choose the color or stain of the wood if you choose a wood hearth pad. Choose the color or style of the tiles if you choose a tiled hearth pad.

4. Add a wooden trim to your fireplace hearth pad. These provide a more finished look and a nice smooth and rounded edge. Woodland Direct carries hearth pads as well as the do-it-yourself wooden trim kits.

Tips & Warnings

• Get fancy with your tiles and choose patterns or pictures for your custom ordered tiled surface hearth pad.
• Fireplace hearth pads are made out of a non combustible surface able to withstand the changing from extreme heat to cold.

Resources

• American Royal offers a variety of tiled hearth pads
• Woodland Direct carries hearth pads or a wooden trim kit
• Try Ace Hardware & Hearth for 30-plus American Panel styles