Hi, looking for some guidance, this might be long because I don’t know if it makes sense!
We had an old gas fire in our 70’s build house which we had removed (and capped off by a gas safe engineer), and were left with an ugly hole in the chimney breast.
In the chimney breast is a metal cylindrical tube, about 5 inches wide which I’m assuming is the flue (?)
I would like to get the fireplace boarded out and plastered to stick a nice electric stove in the existing hole.
I’m assuming it’s capped at the roof as it’s always been a gas fire in the hole, although we do hear the odd tinny ding when it’s raining. And I’m assuming damp won’t be an issue because the height of the gas fire meant it was pushed against the hole.
My question is, do we need to do anything with the flue (metal tube)/put anything in it, or can we just board and plaster the top of the fireplace hole, over the flue hole?
We had an old gas fire in our 70’s build house which we had removed (and capped off by a gas safe engineer), and were left with an ugly hole in the chimney breast.
In the chimney breast is a metal cylindrical tube, about 5 inches wide which I’m assuming is the flue (?)
I would like to get the fireplace boarded out and plastered to stick a nice electric stove in the existing hole.
I’m assuming it’s capped at the roof as it’s always been a gas fire in the hole, although we do hear the odd tinny ding when it’s raining. And I’m assuming damp won’t be an issue because the height of the gas fire meant it was pushed against the hole.
My question is, do we need to do anything with the flue (metal tube)/put anything in it, or can we just board and plaster the top of the fireplace hole, over the flue hole?
