Recent content by Jamster44

Hi Bobasd, that lintel there is over 4 foot high and over 9 inchs thick, the side supports are just the same. in the pic attached the parts marked blue are the lintel and supports, the yellow is infill i know i can remove the green is the party wall, red bit is the brickwork i am concerned about...

Hi Guys thanks for all the advice so far. Bobasd i am looking to put an aga in there hopefully, Woody the builder is familiar with other properties he has worked on in my street. i appreciate it is very hard to judge from photos and probably my bad explanation so i have done a rough sketch to...

Ive had a builder out tonight for some advice, the arrangement I have in my chimney breast have "tie in bricks" to support the corbelled bricks above. He pointed out that it is like this all the way up. It just means I can remove the bricks that are slack level with the lintel.

There is nothing below these bricks they are just hanging, so they will need support then?

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Hi woody, thanks for the reply. All the brickwork you see on the bottom and some to the side is infill like you say and I do understand that. But to the left on that picture the bricks hanging in the corner are part of the smoke chamber cobeled brick formation that runs up inside the chimney...

I hope someone would be so kind as to advise me, I have exposed an old fireplace in my 1915 victorian house. I have found a big lintel already in place about 4 foot up, I have removed infill brickwork from the front but still have a lot of brickwork exposed behind the lintel and lower than the...