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Cut the hardware cloth to roughly the size of your fireplace opening with your metal snips–cutting it down makes it a bit easier to work with. After cutting it down, we placed a piece of plywood with some weights on top over night to help get it to lay flat.
Separate the pulley wheels from the swivel mechanism (ours was easy to do–we just has to remove the cotter pin). Use your high-heat spray paint to paint the hardware cloth, chrome spacers, washers, and pulley wheels black. We found black bolts so we did not have to paint them.
Cut the 2 wheel posts out of the pieces of 1 1/4” bars you cut off in the previous step. We cut our wheel posts down to 5 1/2” long. Then we used the wheels from the pulleys to trace the curve onto the top of each wheel post. We used our angle grinder to cut out the curve at the top of each wheel post.