We have made some more progress with the fireplace today. With the wet weather, we have been looking for indoor activities and finishing off the fireplace was one of our top priorities.
All of the pieces of ashlar that form the fireplace are now in position. We need to build the chimney breast around the fireplace. This will be done using the metal framework that we have used elsehwere during dri-lining. We will then board this with fireboard – a sort of plasterboard that has increased heat resistance.
At the moment, this still ins’t looking like the finished product.
We now have the ashlar stone work in place for the fire place. There are three stone “boxes” under the fireplace. Two will be for logs and the third (the one on the far left) has cabling for a TV/HiFi. I am just not sure that if a TV/HiFi was placed here whether it would melt from the heat from the fireplace!