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fire surround info

alienhead · 2003-03-03 10:29:04

i wanna replace one of these, its a kind of old out of date one, rock effect. how do you remove em, and how easy are they to replace?

03-03-2003 10:29am

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alienhead

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i wanna replace one of these, its a kind of old out of date one, rock effect.

how do you remove em, and how easy are they to replace?

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#2 03-03-2003 6:26pm

Victor

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Do you mean the fireback and hearth or the mantlepiece / surround / extended heart?

Kango / sledge / hammer & chisel come to mind.

If you take out the fireback make sure you replace it with a special fireback and special cement.

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#3 04-03-2003 9:56am

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just the surround, the whole shibang is there, i just want to get rid of the rock effect surround.

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#4 04-03-2003 1:05pm

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As victor says, just hammer the hell out of it. No great technical difficulty at all.

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#5 04-03-2003 4:16pm

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Originally posted by alienhead
just the surround, the whole shibang is there, i just want to get rid of the rock effect surround.

If it is that cheapy 1970s polished slabs of randomly shaped rock, it should come off fairly easily, just wedge a chisel in behind and lift it off. Just think of them as big (heavy!) wall tiles.

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#6 04-03-2003 4:51pm

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the 70's has alot to answer for

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