October 2010 – Fireplace removal

Ben unfortunately had Flu for a few days so work on the new front door was delayed but this allowed me to get on with an internal project – removing the chimney breast in the current master bedroom (which will become the tv/family room).

There are three parts to this job: Removing the chimney breast, moving the wall between the room and the new hall in to the room by about a metre (making the new hall much bigger), and deciding what to do with the wall behind the chimney breast afterwards!

This was taken in October 2009:

After carefully taping protective sheeting in place the chimney breast came out in just a couple of hours. Many of the bricks came out whole and have been saved for a future use:

The options for the wall are to plaster it over or to point it, or perhaps a mixture. But for now it was covered with a sheet of plasterboard:

Construction of the new wall got underway, this needed the chimney breast removing to allow it to o in the correct place:

One side was plasterboarded awaiting the electrics to be installed.

  

Another picture from October 2009:

  

And now October 2010:

 

Cant wait to get rid of that wardrobe! We may put a small woodburner in the corner.