You wait all year for one and get two within a week
We'd like to reinstate proper Victorian/Edwardian fireplaces in the two bedrooms in our house, where the previous owners blocked them up. We're not going to use them, they're purely for aesthetics. We found two lovely matching bedroom surrounds on ebay, I think they'll look really nice. We're almost at the end of a 1.5yr long renovation. So far, given the size of the project we've not done much ourselves, and this is our first place so we're total newbies too. So we're wondering if this is something we're going to be capable of ourselves, with little/no knowledge and even fewer tools at our disposal.
This is what we're dealing with. The carpet is getting replaced so we're not worried about that. And we sweet-talked the builder into cutting the skirting for us so we could rip it off, although now I think we need to replace the whole run and scribe the shape of the surrounds in to make it neater... The real question is, what the heck do we do now?
There's a concrete hearth underneath each as you can see, and since we're not going to use them we don't mind the flat wall behind (i.e. we're not knocking into the chimney breast or anything). We should be able to source some slate to sit them on, so how the heck do we affix that? Do we need to replaster the hole our skirting has left? ... Or should we just get on our local FB groups for a local handyman/builder to do it for us since we're totally useless
Any advice?
The other room;
We'd like to reinstate proper Victorian/Edwardian fireplaces in the two bedrooms in our house, where the previous owners blocked them up. We're not going to use them, they're purely for aesthetics. We found two lovely matching bedroom surrounds on ebay, I think they'll look really nice. We're almost at the end of a 1.5yr long renovation. So far, given the size of the project we've not done much ourselves, and this is our first place so we're total newbies too. So we're wondering if this is something we're going to be capable of ourselves, with little/no knowledge and even fewer tools at our disposal.
This is what we're dealing with. The carpet is getting replaced so we're not worried about that. And we sweet-talked the builder into cutting the skirting for us so we could rip it off, although now I think we need to replace the whole run and scribe the shape of the surrounds in to make it neater... The real question is, what the heck do we do now?
There's a concrete hearth underneath each as you can see, and since we're not going to use them we don't mind the flat wall behind (i.e. we're not knocking into the chimney breast or anything). We should be able to source some slate to sit them on, so how the heck do we affix that? Do we need to replaster the hole our skirting has left? ... Or should we just get on our local FB groups for a local handyman/builder to do it for us since we're totally useless
Any advice?
The other room;