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Afternoon all.
I recently bought a house that prior to us had belonged to an old couple and it still had a horrible 80's Parkray fire installed:
The fire has been all disconnected from the back boiler as the house has a full oil fired central heating system installed, which runs both the heating and hot water. From what I've been told the pipes have been disconnected and capped professionally.
We've had the chimney cleaned and had a small fire going in there so we know the chimney's all good and I've now started the process of removing the horrible fireplace and hearth. I'd also like to remove the Parkray itself and open it up slightly to, for the time being, just have a grate in there for a nice open fire that we can have on at Christmas and the odd dark night. It's a nice warm house so I'm not concerned about efficiency and don't have the money for a full log burner installation at the moment.
I've got it to this point so far:
I'd now really like to pull the Parkray out and see what's behind it. However I have zero experience of this so want to make sure it's safe. In my head I think that with enough brute force it will simply come out and leave me with a messy hole to sort out but my wife is worried that the chimney will collapse in if we remove it. I'm pretty certain the fire won't be holding up the entire chimney but what do I know.
So, can I basically just take as much as I can off the fire and force it out. I know it's going to be really heavy and make a hell of a mess, but as a starting point I just want to know if that's an option without paying someone to prop it up and take it out for me?
I recently bought a house that prior to us had belonged to an old couple and it still had a horrible 80's Parkray fire installed:
The fire has been all disconnected from the back boiler as the house has a full oil fired central heating system installed, which runs both the heating and hot water. From what I've been told the pipes have been disconnected and capped professionally.
We've had the chimney cleaned and had a small fire going in there so we know the chimney's all good and I've now started the process of removing the horrible fireplace and hearth. I'd also like to remove the Parkray itself and open it up slightly to, for the time being, just have a grate in there for a nice open fire that we can have on at Christmas and the odd dark night. It's a nice warm house so I'm not concerned about efficiency and don't have the money for a full log burner installation at the moment.
I've got it to this point so far:
I'd now really like to pull the Parkray out and see what's behind it. However I have zero experience of this so want to make sure it's safe. In my head I think that with enough brute force it will simply come out and leave me with a messy hole to sort out but my wife is worried that the chimney will collapse in if we remove it. I'm pretty certain the fire won't be holding up the entire chimney but what do I know.
So, can I basically just take as much as I can off the fire and force it out. I know it's going to be really heavy and make a hell of a mess, but as a starting point I just want to know if that's an option without paying someone to prop it up and take it out for me?