Walk in wardrobe

[PrincessPeach]

I have an old chimney breast in my bedroom. My room is fairly big but it's getting smaller because all of my space is being used up by wardrobes and shelves. I was considering knocking through the wall of the chimney breast and having a walk in wardrobe. We do have a fire place below but it's a gas fire, so others have said that ventilation shouldn't be a problem. My partner doesn't want me to do it though because they think it'll be too much money and too much work. Please help.

 

[Alastairreid]

Is this chimney breast being used for the gas fire below?

 

[PrincessPeach]

Well it's meant to be but we never use it and there would be space at the back of the wardrobe to leave room for ventilation

 

[noseall]

Knock through the chimney breast into where?

A princess should always get what she wants irrespective of carbon-monoxide poisoning.

 

[^woody^]

I suppose the heat from the gas fire flue could always be used to warm the clothes

 

[Alastairreid]

Got to be a wind up

 

[PrincessPeach]

hehee that just made my day noseall well the chimney breast sticks out into the room so it would be a simple sledge hammer job! ( If you would call that simple?? We never really use the fire place downstairs and the wall would be sealed off from any gases??

 

[handyman77]

You gotta be kidding me........this ain't for real. Yeah crack on ...knock through to next door they won't mind, bet they wouldn't even notice. Let e know if you need a hand...

 

[Deluks]

2 points:

By walk in wardrobe, do you mean built-in wardrobe?

You choose not to use the gas fire? or the gas fire cannot be used?

 

[big-all]

don't forget to remove the chimney and stack first

off course when you inform building control and the party wall act [assuming backing on to another dwelling] they can help

 

[Static]

Alternatively you will need to support the remaining chimney stack above, probably with a new steel beam.. As said above all done with building regs..

 

[thedigger]

I suppose the heat from the gas fire flue could always be used to warm the clothes

Actually, our place had a back boiler when we moved in. The chimney had been removed upstairs and instead the flue pipe ran in a small piece of boxing in (with what looks like concrete/asbestos sheets which were then plastered over). There were built in wardrobes built around this too.

We've since removed the back boiler, flue, built in wardrobes etc