Wood Burner 08/01/14
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you had a good one.
So as we enter into a new year we look toward fulfilling our goals and dreams...ours is to hopefully get half of the house finished. And so, our first job of the year is to get the wood burner in. The weather here in the South West has certainly turned cold so we are hoping that we get good use out of it before the Spring weather arrives!
So far the old fireplace has been knocked out, two supporting lintels have been inserted and the middle of the wall has been bricked up. Here are some before and after pictures...
back room view of the opening...
front room view of the opening...
two new concrete lintels put in...
front room view - the new fire bricks have been built to house the wood burner...
back room view - this will be bricked up further so that we can place our Victorian Fireplace here...
All the banging created a crack that started to creep up the breast wall so we had to get that repaired hence the rendering!
Today I gave a coat of paint to the bricks with a lovely white clay paint.
Today is the most exciting day when everything happens all at once! The hearth went in, but the most exciting bit is yet to come!!! Ayla was quite bemused by the large cherry picker that turned up...she found it all very funny as the man went past our bedroom window waving. The liner was dropped into the chimney and was quite a sight...It's only when you see the work going on do you appreciate how fantastic these wood burner's are.
Liner ready to be inserted down our chimney flue...
...off with the old caps...
...on with new cowl for the log burner flue...
...on a rainy day, we catch first sight of our little log burner doings its job!
...lovely and warm at LONG last!
At first I was a bit unsure of log burners but I now love out log burner...it gives so much warmth and brings a real sense of contentment just snuggled up and starring at the dancing flames.
Thanks for reading!
