fireplace

I want to widen a fireplace opening that I have revealed to accommodate a wood burning stove. The brick 'legs' of the fire place are hollow right through to next door's side of the chimney breast. What options do I have here. Please find attached photo's of fireplace.

Hello all, Basically, we have recently removed a stone fireplace that stretched the full length of the room (see photographs). We have then replastered the walls and fitted a new fireplace, presuming that as there was a gas fire fitted before that we would still be able to fit it after...

Hiya, I am planning to lay brick slips on my fireplace (stove) and would like to have white colour for grout. Is there any white mortar product, which is heatproof that i could use for the fireplace? Or should i call it a white fire cement? Thanks,

Hiya, What would be best? I've opened the fireplace and removed the hearth as to replace with the new one. I want to install a vermiculite board (brick effects) on the inner wall of the fireplace and also the new hearth. So which should i start first? The inner wall or hearth

Hi All, I need to level the flooring for the new hearth, which I remove from the previous extended hearth that goes lower than the floor level. Any advise what cement should i used to level it before i place the hearth. And by looking at the picture the next thing i should do is to level the...

Hi All, Some of you may have read the issues I have had with some plumbing during my renovation of my living room. So I thought I would share with you the better side to my renovation and maybe some of this will help someone out in the future. This was my front room. We used to have the TV in...

Hi everyone I'm not sure if this is the ideal area to post this, but I'm hoping you can help me make sure I've got the right idea about some work that needs doing in a house I'm buying. The place is a 1974 semi which originally had a gas fire. The current owners had this removed - the gas...

Apparently it's lead. That's all I know...

Apologies if this has been covered, couldn't see it in search results Anyway, i've got rid of the surround and as much of the internal masonry as I need out (to give space for couple of studs, insulation and pb). There's a lot of fairly stable but rubbish masonry still at the bottom of the...

Hi All, I have opened up the fireplace in the living room. I want to make it ready to burn an open fire. What steps/stages do I need to follow - what do I need to do - to make it ready and safe for an open fire?

Hi all. First time on here. Please see attached a picture of the fire place. Its a wierd set up and just need some tips. You can see there is about and 8 foot peice of wood running under the fire place which is the base to the fire place under that there r brick holdin up the base. (The...

In my 1880 Victorian End of Terrace, the relative humidity in my front living room is staying around 75%. Not good. Part of the problem seems to be water ingress through the external flank wall (which used to be joining onto a house next door bombed in WW2). I'm hoping to cure that by having...

Hi I've opened up my fireplace and installed a lintel ready for the installation of a 5KW, 85KG log burner. As I got down to floor level I noticed it was very damp, so I removed the quarry tiles and found soil. I am intending to hammer in some hardcore lay some DPM and fill the 3 inch void...

Hi everyone This is my first post on here, although I have found answers to a lot of DIY issues by reading others' experiences. Today I'd like some advice/benefit of experience please. We have moved to this house and this big fireplace with brown tiles is quite a challenge. The initial idea...

Help! Been in my house for 6 months now, guy that owned it before knocked out a supporting wall down stairs to open it up, stuck an RSJ in to support wall above, BUT he's put one rsj full width of the house, but hes sat it on another RSJ thats sitting on both the chimney stacks! Making both...

Morning all! I'm refurbishing a house (as you'll probably know due to my sheer presence on this forum as of late!) and I need to now source and install two hearths for two non working fireplaces (show-only, in the two upstrairs bedrooms). My question to you is - I've never done this before, do...

Hello, I have a question. In our living room we have a fireplace which a working chimney. As during housing renovations I deemed it too expensive to remove the chimney we decided to renovate the existing fireplace. We got the chimney cleaned and got an estimate to line it and install a...

Hi all We have just pulled out a coal fire with a back boiler which was in use until last year when we fitted a combi boiler. Pictures below show the hole that is left behind. We now have a sandstone fireplace to go up and a gas fire to go in, but arent sure on what may be needed for the...