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Can anyone recommend me builders in the manchester area. Only a smallish job. Victorian house, want to open up fireplace (which has been botched over the years) & need a lintel putting in, so basically restoring it to original & it will obviously need plastering over to finish the job.

nick. I've looked up the inside & there's no lintel i can see. So this basically means that the support is coming from the breize blocks that have been put in? right?

Just starting on re-installing a victorian fireplace (will be a working fire) and started pulling plaster off. There was a gas fire fitted sometime in the 60's I guess. The original hole has been built up with breize blocks & I was expecting to find a lintel of some sort, or a brick arch, above...

victorian fireplace

I'm currently stripping down the wood from various parts of the house. Its victorian era pine; I'm wondering what is the best way to finish it off now that it is free of paint. Should I oil, wax or varnish? What are the pros & cons? Is one better than the other in terms of durability...

always use a heat gun then treat with stripper solution, then sandpaper. Why can't you remove doors? You will presumably get a much better job done if you do......

Are you sure your using the heat gun correctly? What type is it? I've recently been doing the same and it takes about 1-2 hours to strip a door and they are the original pine doors (about 120 years old)

zampa many thanks for that.

yeah the first one was thinned. Whats the best way of removing paint from plaster? Theres a few patches where the paint is intact, the rest of it I've now taken off. Do you think I should treat the plaster in some way before i re-paint?