Hi all, we are a few months into a new end of terrace Victorian house and after weeks of initial damage limitation we are starting to plan the first room (lounge). Pictured is the lounge chimmney after some welded cement render has been removed and the old electric fire taken out. There looks to be some previous brick repairs with cement pointing and newer bricks in there.
There is no hearth within the chimmney above what might be called the ash pit(?), just a dumped mixture of slightly damp soil, ash and rubble. I am keen to clear all this muck out before reinstating a new hearth, making safe with wood burner. Question is what to put in the fairly large empty ash pit space below?
Ive had suggestions of sheeps wool, gravel, vermiculite or leave empty. It will effectively be sealed up so access will be difficult in the future once a hearth has been put in. I have two ground floor rooms like this to sort and it would be good to safely insulate this fairly large void.
Anyone had experience of a similar project or insulating this space at the very bottom of the chimmney below floor level?
Thanks
There is no hearth within the chimmney above what might be called the ash pit(?), just a dumped mixture of slightly damp soil, ash and rubble. I am keen to clear all this muck out before reinstating a new hearth, making safe with wood burner. Question is what to put in the fairly large empty ash pit space below?
Ive had suggestions of sheeps wool, gravel, vermiculite or leave empty. It will effectively be sealed up so access will be difficult in the future once a hearth has been put in. I have two ground floor rooms like this to sort and it would be good to safely insulate this fairly large void.
Anyone had experience of a similar project or insulating this space at the very bottom of the chimmney below floor level?
Thanks