Removing inner skin from back of chimney breast

[wetherbybam]

Hi,

I have knocked out my old fireplace with the intention of installing a wood burner. Unfortunately the back of the fireplace is double-skin brickwork, so the opening isn't deep enough for a wood burner to sit in without protruding into the room.

Is there a way of installing a lintel or similar in the back wall of the fireplace to enable me to knowck out the inner skin of bricks, gaining the ~5" needed to fi the burner? I had heard that you can get lintels in the form of a strip of metal that you could us in this case, but would it be possible to install this in the confines of a fireplace?

Thanks,

Ian

 

[tony1851]

Those corrugated metal lintels are rubbish; you would need a p/c concrete lintel for that application.
If it's a party wall, is it solid 9" brick or cavity? If it's solid, you need to be careful some of the bricks are not headers; if it's cavity, you need to effectively block off the cavity.

 

[catlad]

You will get more heat from your stove if it sits further into the room.