Here is a step by step of our Inglenook project.

BEFORE: Note the fire is not in the middle of the fireplace by some 3"



This was taken through the Flue with my phone, the horrors that awaited us!



With the front off the plaster was next!



Plaster off, now time for the bricks!!



This is it with all the bricks out, back to its 1905 glory!!




This is it after the bricks, hearth, skim and lintel!

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Nice result, fair bit of work there. Well done

DWD

Looks great and nice big space.

How did you do the hearth?, are they paving stones with edging at the front as looking to do something similar myself?

Yep, exactly right lagi!

The hearth is 55mm concrete base, then Indian Sandstone flags then I cut strips of the same stone, then split them to put in front to hide the concrete.

Will you be filling the joints at the front as they look open still from the picture?

Lol, yeah I will be filling them with mortar, I was just being impatient with the photo!

I see from picture 5 you already have a concrete base, are you saying you laid another 55mm concrete slab onto that then laid the flagstones on a thin bed of mortar? If so was there any reason for this or could you have laid a thicker bed of mortar?

I am currently at your picture 5 stage.

Also do the top flags have a slight overhang as can't quite tell from the picture?

Nice work

It looks much better now

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Yeah, I already had half a concrete slab at the back, I wanted to level it off, so I made 55mm shuttering and made the concrete level from front to back. So the back was original and the front was new. I then laid my flags with a thin bed of mortar.

Yes, the flags overlap at the front by about 15-20mm, thats why I had to split the front facing stones, as they would have protruded past the hearth slabs!

Very nice. Just wondering how you attached the wooded lintel and what sort of thickness is it?
Matt.

good job!!

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looks great! bricks look superb did you have the originals cleaned up?

No, they were too far gone, I built a new wall inside using Scotch Commons as they are the nearest to my house brick.
The lintel is actually a railway sleeper that hasnt been dipped, it is 12"x 6" and bloody heavy, it is sitting on the end bricks and bracketed at the sides. It was liberally coated in pinkgrip too!

Well, its here and all installed, its been a while now, but only just got round to photographing it!!