How to wide fire place

allycavs · 2015-11-03 11:04:47

Hi Guys Ive a fire place with a extremely old non functioning back boiler. I want to remove this and widen fire place. its a stone cladded fire place. Opening is very narrow and low in height as well at the moment. any advice on this? any tricky bits? Alan

03-11-2015 12:04PM

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allycavs

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Hi Guys

Ive a fire place with a extremely old non functioning back boiler. I want to remove this and widen fire place. its a stone cladded fire place. Opening is very narrow and low in height as well at the moment. any advice on this? any tricky bits?

Alan

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#2 03-11-2015 01:35PM

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If you want to widen it you would have to put in a concrete lintel on the head and leave adequate support in the corners to take the weight! Would end up doing a lot of ripping to get it in. Wouldn't be a 5 minute job! Not rocket science either but very hard to give advice without seeing it.

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