Hi,
We have just bought our first house. It is a 2 bed semi built in 1904. The first room we are tackling is the master bedroom.
I have no previous experience of removing or fitting fireplaces. I have taken the original cast iron fireplace out (was not very nice) and this is what we are now left with:
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We have decided that we want to end up with something like this:
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My question is...
As this is a first floor fireplace, and there is an open fire also in the living room below, can I just smash out what appears to be the infill in the back of the opening to just be left with a hole or will I break through into the flue coming up from the fire below? Where does the flue from the fire below run? Behind it? Beside it?
If I am able to smash the infill out, I will then just build a new brick platform (with some nicer bricks) for the fire basket to stand on, and the have the whole thing plastered.
Cheers
We have just bought our first house. It is a 2 bed semi built in 1904. The first room we are tackling is the master bedroom.
I have no previous experience of removing or fitting fireplaces. I have taken the original cast iron fireplace out (was not very nice) and this is what we are now left with:
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We have decided that we want to end up with something like this:
View media item 14076
My question is...
As this is a first floor fireplace, and there is an open fire also in the living room below, can I just smash out what appears to be the infill in the back of the opening to just be left with a hole or will I break through into the flue coming up from the fire below? Where does the flue from the fire below run? Behind it? Beside it?
If I am able to smash the infill out, I will then just build a new brick platform (with some nicer bricks) for the fire basket to stand on, and the have the whole thing plastered.
Cheers