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Our 1970’s built house has suspended timber floors. In the lounge, we have this vent. Approx. 24cm x 9cm. We’ve got air bricks visible from outside, this vent is the only one in the house and about 2-3 metres away was the gas fire (now removed). What do we think - vent needed to be kept to...

Wall is (relatively) plumb, the pipe protrudes out about a cm, tiles are approx 8mm thick. Pipe is still live, part of the heating system, so can’t cut the pipe. Wider angle pic for a better view. I thought about carving out some of the back with an angle grinder but tiles are 100x300x8 so...

How would you go about this? Old gas fireplace getting tiled. Hoping to get an electric stove in there, but tight on space. Plasterer knew this, so didn’t go out the extra cm(ish) and said we can tile over it with a bit thicker adhesive and it should be fine. Finally got around to tiling and...

We had a greenstar 4000 fitted last year and I don’t recall these issues. Definitely get the installer back to check

The chimney seems to be solid brick/concrete, other than the space for the flue - so I’m guessing leaving ventilation to prevent damp isn’t an issue here?

Here is a picture of the top of the inside of the fireplace - so just wondering if we can cover up this?

Hi, looking for some guidance, this might be long because I don’t know if it makes sense! We had an old gas fire in our 70’s build house which we had removed (and capped off by a gas safe engineer), and were left with an ugly hole in the chimney breast. In the chimney breast is a metal...