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first post on here, so think in the right place, I have been involved in a number of restoration projects over the years, and most projects go ok and to a standard I (and the wife of course) is happy with.
We are renovating a welsh cottage at the moment, which we hope to move into in the next 3-4 weeks, but the fireplace has me flummoxed, during the 1960's someone seems to have removed a backboiler (there are some pipes int he wall) and added a concrete fireplace, normally, there is a concrete lintel or an original curved brick lintel but on this occasion I can only find a small piece of metal, now this could be ok but welcome advice. I want to open up the fireplace, for potentially a log burner, but initially a fire and grate, so I can at least do the plastering of the walls.
My question is would it be ok to remove some bricks above the metal lintel and add a new concrete one across the gap, maybe use props , the breast is about 2-3 foot wide in total, and been thre fr 200 years so do not think would just cave in. and I will attach a pic when Ihave figured that out!
All comments appreciated, the fireplace has not been used sincemid 2011, and needs a good sweep![/img]
first post on here, so think in the right place, I have been involved in a number of restoration projects over the years, and most projects go ok and to a standard I (and the wife of course) is happy with.
We are renovating a welsh cottage at the moment, which we hope to move into in the next 3-4 weeks, but the fireplace has me flummoxed, during the 1960's someone seems to have removed a backboiler (there are some pipes int he wall) and added a concrete fireplace, normally, there is a concrete lintel or an original curved brick lintel but on this occasion I can only find a small piece of metal, now this could be ok but welcome advice. I want to open up the fireplace, for potentially a log burner, but initially a fire and grate, so I can at least do the plastering of the walls.
My question is would it be ok to remove some bricks above the metal lintel and add a new concrete one across the gap, maybe use props , the breast is about 2-3 foot wide in total, and been thre fr 200 years so do not think would just cave in. and I will attach a pic when Ihave figured that out!
All comments appreciated, the fireplace has not been used sincemid 2011, and needs a good sweep![/img]