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Yes, we have had a couple of people mention needing a vent. Obviously not keen on drilling a large diameter hole through the cavity wall, especially given teh internal volume, but we will look into that further.

I did. I called them and spoke to building control. They were distinctly not interested. I did explain that it had never been actually used as a fire, i.e. no fireback had ever been fitted so it was putting a chimney (purpose built at the time of construction of the house), that had never been...

We seem to have some slightly conflicting information about the flue. The HETAS engineer said it all looks really good, nice clean opening, good quality class 1 chimney, simple to install a nice cast fireplace in it, slightly odd as the flue opening is about half a pipe off centre and squared...

The chap coming tomorrow is HETAS and Corgi registered. Incidently, we have just been told we need to have a 100cm2 vent installed in the (cavity) wall...

We may have resolved it - I have a highly recommended chap in the Reading/Basingstoke area coming in to give a free inspection and assessment of what can be fitted, and how. And as a bonus he prefers to do his inspections on a Saturday.

...tempting... :-) We are actually looking at a cast iron setup. The question is more what to do left and right, as the space is obviously wider that the cast iron fireback. Is it just a case of leaving it bricked up at the front and backfilling the rest of it?

...hoping this works... As far as we have got: http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/602029_10200499397943166_1366896616_n.jpg View inside the chimney, looking up: http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306191_10200499673110045_1110322224_n.jpg (Ah, cameras on...

That's fine, it's more for decoration/the concept of a (small) open fire than a large roaring thing. The house is heated and insulated anyway, and we know that most of the real generated hear goes upwards ;-) Yep, and if we could find one, I'd ask. We have a local ex-brickie who has been and...

We have a house, built in 1974. The plans were for a fireplace, but it was cancelled in the last stages of house construction and bricked over. The chimney/flue were fitted and builder's space constructed, then it was bricked over. Nearly 40 years on, we have decided to open it up for a real...