Let me see if I can describe this mortar job I need to do?

Question

its a den or family room with walll to wall carpet, in the middle is a wood stove sat upon a 5'X5' brick hunk of c**p plat form!

4 bricks along the side that you load the firewood have broken away.... I have the 4 bricks all nice and mortar free, d**n I am good! haha

so I need to mix my Mortar and reapply the bricks, but see the lay on there sides, so no mortar touches the carpet, does this make sence? there is a platform on the inside of c**p wood, you know that particle board or what ever its called.

But on the outside, the part I am mortaring it hits the carpet.

how do I do it, so I do not have so much mortar getting on the carpet.

does this make sence if not here is a bad picture

Answer 1

Do as Ms. Star suggested.

Answer 2

mask off the area of the carpet around the crappy fireplace and get down to business with that mortar before it sets

Answer 3

When I did mine I found a canvas bag at the hardware store.  It looks like one of those cone shape bags that they use for cake decorating.  I don't know what it was called, but it had a hole in one end and I filled it with mortar & just squeezed out what I wanted.  I got it at Lowes or Home Depot.  It will make your job much easier & less messy.

Answer 4

Place your mortar onto the bricks and place them. Watch that it doesn't ooze out onto the carpet as you press them together.

When you get finished consider running a timber edging around it, and secure to the floor.

Answer 5

ditto to the piping mortar. use packing tape instead of masking tape, less chance you will put a hole in it.