Hi again you friendly folks of DIYNOT
I've got ten days to get a bedroom ready for a lodger, so I need to sort out the Victorian cast iron fireplace asap.
The flue flap has always been missing and some years ago I cut an oval-shaped piece of cardboard, painted it black and slotted it in. It looked great, but 20 years of of cream-coloured brick dust and rubble accumulated on top and has made it collapse. We've just filled half a black sack with rubble and dust.
Photo shows the fireplace with the piece of black painted cardboard in the flue hole.
I could do the same again, I suppose, but wondered if anyone on here had a better solution than flimsy cardboard. Hardboard perhaps? Plywood? Something else I haven't thought of?
(I don't drive, so searching salvage yards for a flap that fits just isn't feasible.)
Perhaps someone on here has the same problem and can share how they solved it?
I've got ten days to get a bedroom ready for a lodger, so I need to sort out the Victorian cast iron fireplace asap.
The flue flap has always been missing and some years ago I cut an oval-shaped piece of cardboard, painted it black and slotted it in. It looked great, but 20 years of of cream-coloured brick dust and rubble accumulated on top and has made it collapse. We've just filled half a black sack with rubble and dust.
Photo shows the fireplace with the piece of black painted cardboard in the flue hole.
I could do the same again, I suppose, but wondered if anyone on here had a better solution than flimsy cardboard. Hardboard perhaps? Plywood? Something else I haven't thought of?
(I don't drive, so searching salvage yards for a flap that fits just isn't feasible.)
Perhaps someone on here has the same problem and can share how they solved it?
