APPLICATIONS – FIREPLACES
You can pretty much use any tile that you like around fireplaces! When tile is manufactured it is fired at temperatures much higher than you can generate in your fireplace. As a result heat from your fireplace will not affect your tile( it will affect the glue that is used however, so thinset mortar should always be used to set tile around a fireplace that will get warn!)
In this application, as well as others, you are not limited to using only smaller tiles! (See “Large Format Tiles – They’re not Just for Floors Anymore” in the Articles section)