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Hi! It's been a while; since my post my wife and I have emigrated to the Middle East and never got around to posting the final outcome! Anyway, here goes, hope this is useful (it was some time ago, but I think I've covered most things)!!! After some superb advice from a guy who posts videos...

Hi guys, When renovating our lounge (house is vc.1900, red brick), we opened the chimney breast up intending on putting in a wood burner. The cost of the flue liner etc precludes us doing that so we initially settled on sourcing a cast iron fireplace and wooden surround off ebay - which we've...

What a cool idea - I'll suggest it to the missus! thanks!

Cheers for sharing. I'd agree - there's no way I'd do what I did with clay - I think I'd have achieved nothing more than making myself a very small moat had the house not been sitting on chalk!

I ended up going for the simple route. As the house is on chalk, the soil is incredibly free draining - we've never had so much as a puddle, even in the heaviest of rains. I just needed ground level to be below the DPC. I bought a load of Victorian edging tiles off eBay (£150 for about 30m -...