Recent content by Timmy_otool

The upstairs backs onto an outside wall, but downstairs is built on to my neighbours garage so I cant see. Due to the position of the house however, I can't see the upstairs wall from outside. Very frustrating. The house has had lots of black mould, that i've been told is condensation. The...

I can on part of the chimney breast one :confused:

I'm fixing up and old house (1800 and something!) After taking off wallpaper upstairs I noticed a crack from the top of the room to the bottom. I went downstairs and removed wallpaper there and discovered the same crack continuing down the wall and through the chimney breast. I've also now...

Never mind the arch... look at that pipe! I've only just got the heating up and running and that pipe gets hot when the radiators are on - so basically it's in use. How much do you think it would cost to remove the long bit of pipe in the fire, and just rejoin it with the other pipes outside...

It never fell down! Just have some odd pipes to sort now!

If I dont need to inform building regs, I'm going to assume I can go over tomorrow and hammer out those inner bricks :censored: allbeit, nervously!

I just think it all looks so weak, and that metal support under the arch is so old maybe it isnt as strong as it was? Anyway... so you think I should place fresh bricks under the outer sides of the metal then it is safe to batter out the centre new bricks? What do you mean by rounded wood...

Well, I chipped some plaster away. Then some more... and more. Basically I chipped it all off! So it's pretty obvious that the bricks in the centre were added at a later date, but I'm unsure about removing them as the original brickwork looks weak. If you look closely under the arch, you can...

I'm not 100% sure what I am doing with the upstairs one. There are 2 flues though, I can tell when looking up the bedroom chimney. It curves and there are 2 on the roof. There is no basement, and the ground floor is made of concrete. Maybe this is a little too dangerous to try myself.

I want to remove the old pipework and pump. Ideally I'm wanting to open the space up and put a fire inside. I'll attach a pic of what I'm aiming towards, allbeit the picture is more grand compared to what I have. The last image I added (above) showed the bedroom fire that I uncovered. I...

Ah right! I'll have to give that a go when I'm back at the house tomorrow. It also looks like there has been a lintel put in do you think? It just looks like something is across the bricks. Just to add a little more (not sure if it helps), the room directly above has a large opening an remnents...

I bought a house a week or so back and after opening up the fire place, I noticed that there has been a back burner in there. I want to make the opening larger, but I'm not sure if it is ok to bash away some bricks or not. What do you think? I'm guessing that the space was bigger originally...