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1. Knockout about to start, several stages of open fireplaces/backboilers, gas fireplaces can be seen.
2. Knockout complete, lintel fitted, Bricks repaird, and 1 ton of masonry removed, closure plate fitted
3. Farmhouse Blend Brick Slips fitted, and Limestone Hearth laid
4. Limestone hearth, dyed pointing, Brick Slips sides and rear recess. Prior to plastering the walls..
5. Installation complete, Chimney Breast Plastered, Farmhouse Blend Brick Slips, Limestone Hearth, Cast Tec Juno 5kw Multi Fuel Appliance Installed, and Oak Mantlepiece above
1. Starting point, knockout
2. Brick Slips with Outer Edge Slips and Indian Sandstone hearth being fitted
3. Solid Fuel Appliance installed on one-piece Indian Sandstone Hearth and non combustible mantle
Modifying Recess, removing any combustible items before cleaning clay pot lined chimney then servicing. repairing and recommissioning wood burning appliance
1. Subsided Heath and Inglenook repairs
2. Stabilised Constructional Hearth, Brick Inglenook laid
3. Installation complete with Cast Tec Juno 5kw Multi Fuel and Sandstone Hearth
1. Starting point for knockout, old open fire with collapsed brickwork from chimney inside
2. Cast open fire insert removed, reveiling collapsed bricks from the builders opening and top of chimney
3. Finished product, dark Limestone Hearth, Cleaned and pointed brickwork inglenook, Original Slate Surround
1. Starting point for chimneyless system and false chimney breast
2. Chimneyless System Vertically Through House, False Chimney Breast with limestone inglenook being built
3. Cement boards plastered, Agaean Limestone surround fitted, Oyster Split Stone Recess made, and Fireline FQ5 Appliance Installed on Insulated Twin Walled Flue System
4. Decorated. False Chimney Breast, Oyster Split Stone Recess finish, Limestone Surround and Hearth, Fireline FQ5 appliance, insulated twin walled sectional flue system
1. Chimneyless System Through Wall. False Chimney Breast installation
2. Chimneyless System Through Wall, Solid Fuel Twin Wall Insulated Flue, Non-combustible fire surround, and Appliance Installed
3. Limestone Hearth, Non-Combustible Surround, False Chimney Breast, Twin Wall Insulated Flue System, ACR Woodpecker 5KW Multi Fuel Appliance Installed
1. Gas fireplace to be converted
2. After enlarging the rear and sides of the recess, a 4kw Mazona Ripley fits perfectly, retaining the decorative cast iron fire surround
1. Opening up fireplace to fit Insert Burner
2. Combustible area built with cement blocks, cement board and metal stud
3. Stovax Studio 1 Inset Wood Burning Appliance installed and being warmed up
4. Stovax Studio 1 Inset Wood Burning Appliance installed, 5th burn, tempering the burner
1. From blank wall with no chimney breast
2. False Chimney Breast being constructed, Chimneyless Twin Wall Insulated System will run through ceiling
3. Job Progressing
4. Project Finished, Chimneyless System, False Chimney Breast, Limestone Hearth, Plain Cement Board Recess, Stovax County Wide 5 kW Appliance, Oak Mantel
1. Start...
2. ...to knock out...
3. ...to brick slip hearth, back and sides...
4. ...to completed item, with Cast Tec Nevis multi fuel stove, non-combustible beam
1. From this---
2. ---to opened up---
3. ---to knocked-out (amazingly there was a wooden intel in the old fireplace!)---
4. ---reenforced concrete lintel fitted, boards in to straighten walls---
5. ---to the final result, sparkle split faced stone recess, honed granite hearth, Percy Doughty Bassington Eco appliance.
1. Free standing gas fire, never did put out any heat into the room due to all the heat going straight up the large flue and out
2. ICID Insulated Twin Wall Flue, 6" ID, 8" OD, installed in the original steel box section flue of the gas fire (customer wanted to keep the box copper flue gather and box section)
3. Ekol Clarity 11.4kW Double Sided stove, freestanding, with ICID twin walled flue installed through copper flue gather which the customers wanted to retain. Raised copper gather, with insulated twin walled flue installed inside the original box section steel flue.Re-inforced hearth with 6 Indian Sandstone 900 x 600mm pavers, and full perimeter fender.
4. Ekol Clarity 11.4kW Double Sided stove, freestanding, with ICID twin walled flue installed through copper flue gather which the customers wanted to retain. Raised copper gather, with insulated twin walled flue installed inside the original box section steel flue.Re-inforced hearth with 6 Indian Sandstone 900 x 600mm pavers, and full perimeter fender.
1. Starting point, gas fire and back boiler in hardboard panelled chiney breast
2. Panelling removed from wall, knock out opening up the recess
3. Dark Limestone Hearth, Rustic Yellow Brick Slips rear, Plain Cement Board sides
4. Stovax Vogue Medium Slimline 5kW stove installed
1. Starting point, inefficient open fire to be converted to Inset Burner
2. Long dust and soot extraction hose run through entire house
3. Hamlet Solution 7kW Inset Stove installed
4. Pets love stoves
1. Starting point for full Knockout and Installation
2. Offcentre fireplace, as there's an old back boiler/ water heater behind the wall
3. Rebuilding rear recess with reclaimed bricks due to it being very deep, and the original bricks being burned out by decades of open coal fires
4. Reclaimed brick rear recess, brick slips sides
5. Blending brick and slip colours with special brick coloring dyes
6. Split Slate tiled hearth, reclaimed brick rear recess, brick slip sides, antique fire surround with porcelein heat shield
7. Clarke 4.5kW burner installed with 5" flexible chimney liner
1. Starting point for Chimneyless System
2. Plasterboard removed
3. Cement board fitted, and lined hole through cavity wall made
4. Brick Slips on wall, Honed Granite Hearth, Franco Belge 7kW Appliance
5. Externally,
1. Starting point, old cast iron fireplace and surround removed, chimney unblocked
2. Rear of chimney recess opened up to accept the Cast Tec Integra Inset 5kW Appliance, its fireback plate, and limestone surround
