Recent content by Turnermtb

Were having a balanced flue gas stove fitted and i have a question regarding the insulation in the cavity wall. I am altering the chimney breast myself to make it deeper and need to know if the insulation where the flue will go through the wall needs to be removed or not as im not sure how hot...

Hi looking for some advice on how to best fit a lintel in our fireplace, i have bought a concrete lintel and have been told two ways to fit it, one being to dry pack it with slate ( which i cant find any) and fill any gaps with mortar and the other way to lay it on mortar and fill all gaps on...

Got the blocks out that i needed to, need to get a lintel put in now, think im going to let the fire company do the rest. Hopefully what ive done will save me a bit off the £700 quoted price to deepen the fireplace.

Cheers Justin, were not using these blocks for the woodburner, i need to remove them up to about a metre as were creating an opening for it to sit in, we are having an external stainless flue. Just need to know if they upper blocks will all come falling down if they are not supported by the...

Hi, just stumbled across this forum while looking for an answer regarding removal of flue blocks. I own a new build house with a pre-fabricated flue block chimney, i am in the process of opening up the fireplace to have a woodburner fitted, i need to remove about 1 metre high of flue blocks and...