What is the floor of a fireplace better known as?

My job was to empty the ashes in the mornings, before laying a new fire with kindling I had just chopped and then bigger pieces of wood I had stacked the wood boxes full of. I loved cooking with toasted sandwich irons. We had one that made 3 in one go!

I had no idea! But now I know the bottom of a fire place is a hearth! Hmm that’s cool!

we had a woodstove, I would have liked a fireplace better.

Why do u have comments about a hearth

my grandparents had one

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My grandparents had a huge hearth in their home

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Have a fireplace! but barley even got this right! 😆 use it in the in the winter! but other than that no not really! love when me and my fan use it! but it just causes so much mess! so don't use it often!

Good question, although living in a big city with mainly apartments made it difficult. Now I know.

And the best place by the fire was always reserved for the storyteller.

I've also heard of a hearthstone - presumably from the days when the fire was just built up on a stone, definition given by OED is " a flat stone that forms the hearth or part of a hearth" . So, stone could also be a correct answer.