First post so obligatory "Hello".
Friend of mine has a fireplace that needs some work doing to it & I've offered to do it. I want to learn from it & hopefully I can, along with your great advice on here, have an end product that I'm proud of.
The chimmney has been swept and an anti-pigeon chimmney pot has been fitted already so everything above the fireplace is in good order which is good to know.
Within the fireplace the previous owners had very lazily run one of the central heating pipes. This was identified and made safe by a plumber friend sealing it properly and "cementing it in".
The fireplace does not have a fireback within and I'm pretty sure that the fireback protects the structural aspect of the breast?
Anyone care to offer good advice here?
I'm reading various pages about fitting a fireback involving firerope (expansion), various mentions of fire cement and filling behind the fireback with rubble? Any experienced voices would be welcomed greatly?
(I'll add some images when I return home tonight)
Friend of mine has a fireplace that needs some work doing to it & I've offered to do it. I want to learn from it & hopefully I can, along with your great advice on here, have an end product that I'm proud of.
The chimmney has been swept and an anti-pigeon chimmney pot has been fitted already so everything above the fireplace is in good order which is good to know.
Within the fireplace the previous owners had very lazily run one of the central heating pipes. This was identified and made safe by a plumber friend sealing it properly and "cementing it in".
The fireplace does not have a fireback within and I'm pretty sure that the fireback protects the structural aspect of the breast?
Anyone care to offer good advice here?
I'm reading various pages about fitting a fireback involving firerope (expansion), various mentions of fire cement and filling behind the fireback with rubble? Any experienced voices would be welcomed greatly?
(I'll add some images when I return home tonight)
