Hello there! I'm trying to buy and install an electric fireplace insert (was looking at Dimplex Chassis 600) to cover up a hole that for some...
Hi. I really need advice as so confused by this and don't know what trade to get in to help resolve it. In an upstairs bedroom there is a boarded...
....so we found another fireplace this morning, which we now plan to open up and have a woodburner installed. I'm concerned because that brick...
I have installed a hit and miss vent in the kitchen chimney breast as the flue is uncapped and we were getting a minor efflorescence on the...
Hello. I have opened up a fire place on the first floor of a 1900 victorian property. There seems to be a bottomless hole where the old fireplace...
Greetings! Currently renovating my Victorian house and on the newbie learning curve, I love it. Two differing builder perspectives: old school...
I after some general advise about what might be achievable in terms of opening up our fire place to fit a wood burner. I'm not planning to do the...
Hi folks, first time poster and newbie but I’m in the middle of renovating my living room and the previous owners had removed and bricked up the...
hey all, Bit of advice needed? The Mrs & I have had some major alterations done to our house and are now in the process of tackling the living...
I've just about finished the building work before putting in another log burner. Where I had to remove plaster around the opening on the chimney...
Hi there, I'm trying to fit an old cast iron fireplace in my Victorian house. So far, I have replaced the builder's arch with a concrete lintel...
Hi I have a very old cast iron fireplace and had the chimney cleaned recently .At the top of fire bricks there is a iron plate and behind that the...
We have opened up a fireplace to install a woodburning stove (hasn't everyone...), which exposed the original supporting brick arch above the...
I'm prepping the fireplace in our front room for a new log burning stove. All of the brickwork/mortar is sound but I want to cover in 12mm...
Hi, I'm looking to remove my fireplace but currently cant see a lintel. Should i remove more plaster to see if there is a lintel? Or am i able to...
Hi We have a bronze fireplace - it was custom made in bronze with an ornamental open gas flame fire inside (all looks great, but not very good at...
Before we bought our new place we were renting. We had asked the landlord permission to drill above the fireplace to hang a mirror; it was his old...
Plug on fire by Pinkbear154 posted 31 May 2017 at 1:26 AMi wondering if any one can help me. We have just bought a electric fireplace and surround...
Hello everyone, I am planning to start using an old fireplace and I am a little worried that the mortar lining around the chimney and on the back...
Hi all, I found a good guide on how to block-up and un-used fire place here...
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