How to restore old, crumbling brick fireplace
Emily
4 years ago
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Comments (3)good eye! yes it was a late victorian one put in at some point just for show. ( house is stuart period)no chimney behind. we put it back to how it was supposed to be. wood wool board and lime plaster....See MoreSloping garden with crumbling retaining wall. Help and advice needed.
Comments (23)Have you thought of gabions, provided you put the facing layer of something attractive that you like you can fill the back with all the old bricks and rubble (no soil) that would save on the amount of money you would have to spend on the facing and journeys to the tip to get rid of rubbish. If you wanted you could add a decking board, or anything you fancied on the top to use as seating this doesn't need to be the full width of the garden and is quite cheap to buy but do treat with preservative to give a long life, I definitely would put plants behind to stop people tripping over and falling on to the patio. Hope this will helps you....See MoreOpening up fireplace in 18th century cottage restoration
Comments (1)Hi Sarah, the cracked lintel is probably the reason the fire has been bricked up like that - it's a major structural problem and means the lintel cannot do its job anymore so definitely will need replacing or supporting with an additional lintel underneath. Also, while it looks to me fairly obvious that you will need to take out all the bricks that are currently in place to make space put in a new woodburner, you would need professional advice to undertake work like this - especially as you have an extremely heavy broken lintel being held up by the bricks making it risky to fiddle with them. But it's a custom job every time to reinstate a fireplace as it relies a lot on the condition of the chimney, the way that it's constructed etc; so I doubt there will be any reliable advice anyone can give you from a few photos. Get a professional in (perhaps the fire supply co?) to come and look at it for you, inspect the flue, etc. Best of luck....See MoreCrumbling Plaster best course of action?
Comments (2)hi Adam, looking at your photos it would appear that the window company fitted the windows on the old timber bearers that were set for the old windows. this is not great as they could rot of water get under the new windows. I think you need to remove the cover pieces that are around the edge of the window. this will probably dislodge the loose plaster around the head and side of the window. this will allow the new plaster to be carried out and give you a better result. the architrave can be then fixed to the sides on the window in either a plastic finish or a timber finish in keeping with the age of the property. the plasterer will probably use a hard wall plaster and finish with a skim of finishing plaster. hope this helps! best Rowland...See MoreSonia
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