hi chaps,
doing a bathroom for a customer at the moment and he's asked me to 'tidy up' his fireplace, he has a grate inside a chimney of brick construction which he uses for open fires and therefore has black sooty brickwork inside the fireplace.
it currently has a beveled frame effect on the front which is a bit of a mess and he wants it making nice and tidy, so questions are:
1) mix of render? is standard 5:1 ok or does it need some lime too?
2) guessing i'll need to clean sooty bricks down with something? sugar soap?
3) how is best to form a nice new bevelled frame? (from face of fireplace 45 degrees back into the fireplace)
4) current render is painted so how best to bond new render to painted stuff?
sorry for the amount of questions chaps, new one for me this type of job.
will attempt a diagram to help explain what i mean by 'frame'
doing a bathroom for a customer at the moment and he's asked me to 'tidy up' his fireplace, he has a grate inside a chimney of brick construction which he uses for open fires and therefore has black sooty brickwork inside the fireplace.
it currently has a beveled frame effect on the front which is a bit of a mess and he wants it making nice and tidy, so questions are:
1) mix of render? is standard 5:1 ok or does it need some lime too?
2) guessing i'll need to clean sooty bricks down with something? sugar soap?
3) how is best to form a nice new bevelled frame? (from face of fireplace 45 degrees back into the fireplace)
4) current render is painted so how best to bond new render to painted stuff?
sorry for the amount of questions chaps, new one for me this type of job.
will attempt a diagram to help explain what i mean by 'frame'