Slate Hearth Supply in Bristol

Slate Hearth Supply in Bristol

We can supply (and fit) beautiful slate hearths for your woodburning stove or fireplace installation in Bristol and surrounding areas. Our busy workshop in Bristol is able to cut and shape riven slate to your requirements  – from simple 2-piece hearths to teardrop corner hearths and more complicated shapes. We can ship via courier if required.

Simply give us a call and we can discuss your requirements over the phone or you are more than welcome to drop in to our workshop in St Werburghs, Bristol. Please call before hand just to make sure someone is there to meet you

Hearth Design

We can produce your hearth from your own or your installers measurements or for more complicated shapes we would require a template. Any template should be in a firm material such as hardboard or cement board. Cardboard is not really suitable as it can bend and warp.

If you would like us to template your hearth and also fit it then we offer this service as well.

We can also supply slate slips for stone fireplace framing.

Have a look at our Pinterest boards for inspiration

Key Facts

Calibrated thickness : 25mm and 40mm

Colour: dark grey with blue/green tones

Surface: Smooth riven but we can polish if required (honed)

Edges: Bevelled to your specification (pencil, radius, square bevel, half bullnose)

Recommended sealer: LTP Mattstone

Installation

If you or your builder/installer requires any advice about fitting your hearth then we can provide this as part of our service. There are several right and several wrong ways to lay a hearth! If you get it wrong then you risk breaking the hearth or ending up with a poor quality installation.

Why slate?

Slate has been used as a fireplace stone for centuries. It is a durable product that ages well with the fireplace. Slate is a relatively soft stone compared to granite which actually makes it a better product for a woodburning stove. One of the problems with hard stone like granite is that some woodburning stove feet will ‘skid’ on the hard surface whereas with slate the feet can grip because the surface is softer. We have known some woodburners to actually move across a granite hearth all by themselves as they heat up and cool down! We tend not to recommend granite hearths for this reason.

Our slate is riven (matt or cleft) but very flat and an ideal level surface for your woodburner.  We can polish (or hone) the surface should you prefer this finish. When honed the surface takes on an amazing marbled pattern, showing off the beautiful colours within the stone. The colour of our slate varies across a dark to mid grey occasionally with blue/green tones. If you have a particular requirement or even want to choose your piece of slate then please get in touch!

Slab Supply

We can also supply ‘raw’ slabs of slate in several standard sizes (such as for laying a patio or paving) but we can also cut bespoke sizes as required. A popular use of our slate is for decking of paths due to the natural non-slip nature of riven slate. We can also make window cills, wall caps and door thresholds.

If you are in the woodburner or fireplace trade, get in touch to find out about our installer trade discounts.

 

Testimonials

Thank you for a fantastic job. Our new wood burner looks great and makes our front room so warm and cosy. Very knowledgeable, very accommodating and professional work.
M & S Parry St Andrews, Bristol BS6
Stovax Stockton 5
Will and his guys were amazing to deal with from start to finish. Super professional, super-efficient and really kind all at the same time. The burner itself looks fantastic and works perfectly. All in all, I recommend that you have Heart put a Heart in your home!
 Tristan Hogg Pieminister
Charnwood Island I
We just wanted to say a really huge THANK YOU to you and your team. The wood burner looks fantastic and we can’t wait to start using it. The guys who worked at the house were brilliant. Friendly, tidy and professional. We were given a thorough explanation before they left too.
 G Williams Filton, Bristol
Cleanburn Lovenholm
Will and Ian installed our wood burning stove at the beginning of February 2017, we are so very very pleased and impressed with their service. Both were very professional, polite, cheerful and friendly. Thank you so much.
K Barrymore Bristol
wood burning stove installation
Using a HETAS engineer to install your woodburning stove means that you are using a competent person who has undergone training and certification in the safe installation of flue systems and solid fuel appliances.
HETASInstallers
A really refreshing experience to have a chilled out friendly chap round who genuinely cares about his work and is driven by making sustainable heating as accessible to as many people as possible rather than motivated by money. We were more than happy to leave Will and Stuart with the keys to our house while we went to work and have already recommended them to two of our friends.
E Chapman Easton, Bristol
Morsø 1412 Squirrel
We are really pleased with the fireplace – came out just like the brochure! Heart are highly recommended.
 L Faiello St Andrews
Chesneys Beaumont and Chesneys Marble Surround
Since having the lovely new stove fitted in the dining room it has become the heart of our house. We light the fire rather than turning on the central heating – much nicer!
R Rose Montpelier, Bristol
Stovax Stockon 7
What a difference the service has made to our wood burner. It is definitely producing more heat and looks great now. Thanks for a good job.
Dan Montpelier, Bristol
Wood burning stove service
We’ve turned the downstairs radiators right down since the stove was fitted. They don’t come on when it is lit. Great Job!
D Rutterford Bradford Upon Avon
Morso Squirrel