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Managed to remove everything safely! Thanks for all your advice! Just seen the latest post, old hearth needing digging out, damp and beatle damage :cry: yikes that hearth currently in there is solid concrete! Another quick question is would that iron bar below the arch need to be covered or can...

So far so good. Nice iron bar running below the arch appears strong and intact. Behind the remaining top left and right bricks to be removed I've come across the non-structural throat you mentioned earlier but it's part of the new bricks that I'm currently removing! Quite a lot to come out hope...

I threw in a little mortar here and there where some was missing but here are some pics showing what I'm up against. I don't think it's terrible but will go with your judgement. The arch equally on both sides looks like it once had pipe holes or drilled for a mantelpiece? Hence the damage. A...

A couple pictures up the chimney you can see the concrete lintel and solid blocks of original bricks a little way up above it on both sides. I know these "brick blocks" are original as a few years back when the gas fire was taken out I looked up and found an early 20th century cigarette packet...

Thanks for the quick replies! I'll examine the arch as best I can from inside and out and will take photos and post them. I've found 3 dead gas pipes running in so have cut and capped them far outside, there is one live elec cable running in from a spur (old back boiler) which I'm having removed...

Hi all, I'm planning to have a log burner fitted but wanted to open up the fireplace height to its original 1914 arched lintel. In more recent years it has had a concrete lintel put in place much lower down possibly due to the gas fire that was previously there. My question is can I remove the...