Recent content by chestnutwibble

I said early March, I meant early Jan - clearly the excitement of getting the job finished has got to my brain!!

Just wanted to say thanks very much for the help, got the new lintel in and no bricks fell out in the process! I've now reinstated the second arch and just about finished the plastering. All looking good for the stove to be installed in early March.

Noseall and Neds, thanks a lot for your help, I'll let you know how I get on.

Noseall and Neds, thanks a lot for your responses. Looking more closely at it today I suspected I was going to have to put a lintel in. If I can manage it I'm going to try and put it in below the remaining arch. I'm hoping if I knock out some of the bricks of the second arch - which has...

We've decided to get a wood burning stove installed, but to do this we need to widen the fireplace. I've removed the nasty tiled fire place surround and taken out the fireback, but I'm now slightly confused. It looks as if the fireplace has been narrowed at some point with a row of bricks on...