Cover the stones, bricks, tiles, Slate flooring etc. with plastic and put them in a protected area to allow the chips to cure for one-to-two weeks before applying a protective sealer. The kind of sealer and number of coats needed depends for your amount of damage and exposure the products will 've got.
At this moment in time, if you find yourself standing just before your fire, you would agree the fireside would emerge as the centre of your residence. It is the best piece of real estate in your entire home.
What you also need to learn in this whole equation when you purchase a thin stone veneer product with a skinny stone veneer you pay considerably less in shipping costs. Do not allow anyone tell you differently, installers will bill you more when they have to transport a full-sized stone product to property or job site. I understand my company would and i was a mason for well over 20 long years!