builders opening

  1. J

    Builders opening 60's House

    Hi there, looking for any advice and help. We have recently renovated our house (built in 1963), standard brick construction. When we moved in, we had a 70s mistermister type gas fire. We had this disconnected and the small builders opening plastered over. I have attached pictures, for...
    • Jbaz
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    • builders opening chimney chimney breast fire
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    • Forum: Building
  2. C

    Builders Opening.

    So recently moved a new terrace house. The old fireplace place was covered and i wanted to open it up. So ive kncoked through the plaster and took 2/3 bricks out at most. Been researching on google about the builders opening. I was expecting to find the lintel but it couldnt find. Ive took...
  3. Kburrito

    Widening builders opening - Feasable?

    Hey, Took the fireplace out and got left with what looks like a neat builders opening. Can this opening be extended if I add a new wider lintel? Extending only by 10cm each side. Can the gather/bricks inside be removed? What if sides of chimney breast are hollow? Seems like they might...
    • Kburrito
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    • breast builders opening chimney chimney breast fireplace stove wood burner
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    • Forum: Building
  4. Kburrito

    Expanding chimney breast opening - advice needed

    Hi, Looking for a bit of advice regarding chimney breast opening. We are wanting to expand the chimney breast opening by approx 10cm each side (width). This means the following: - adding acrow props + strongbow - replacing lintel with bigger one - knocking out bricks at the sides for 10cm...
    • Kburrito
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    • builders opening chimney breast stove wood stove
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    • Forum: Building
  5. R

    Replacing Cut Bricks in Fireplace Chimney Breast

    Hi all! I'm opening up a fireplace, ready to accept a wood burning stove. Property is 1918. It's clear it's been chopped about over the years. At some point it seems to have had some kind of large inset fire or similar installed. I haven't been able to quite figure out what it was (any...
    • RichT222
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    • acrows brick laying bricks builders opening chimney breast fireplace opening fireplace stove strongboy support
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    • Forum: Building
  6. M

    Builders opening/fireplace brick replace

    Hi there. Looking for some advice, I've opened up a builders opening to it's original 1911 spec, due to the many different fireplaces over the years, the lintels installed by gas fitters have chewed up some of the column bricks, left side being the worst. I've done a a fair bit myself...
    • M4ni
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    • builders opening fireplace woodburner
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    • Forum: Building
  7. StephenStephen

    Do we need a lintel below this brick curve?

    ....so we found another fireplace this morning, which we now plan to open up and have a woodburner installed. I'm concerned because that brick arch seems very flat, and also there's very little wall on the right hand side to stop it pushing outwards once we've taken the bricking up out of the...
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