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Were doing up our living room and decided to take out the fire place.
Plan is to open it up for a wood burning stove although a stove will go in at a far later date when funds allow.
For now we will just put an electric lookalike in.
As you can see I've took the surround off and I'm waiting for a gas engineer to cap off the gas inlet.
Question is from what I'm aware is that you can open up the builders opening to around a meter square before you need to start using props and strong boys.
Is this right?
Obviously I'll put a lintel in when I get the desired hight.
House age is around 1950s ex council house.
Plan is to open it up for a wood burning stove although a stove will go in at a far later date when funds allow.
For now we will just put an electric lookalike in.
As you can see I've took the surround off and I'm waiting for a gas engineer to cap off the gas inlet.
Question is from what I'm aware is that you can open up the builders opening to around a meter square before you need to start using props and strong boys.
Is this right?
Obviously I'll put a lintel in when I get the desired hight.
House age is around 1950s ex council house.