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As for the pipes you do need to get it tested, likely it could be gas. it does look untidy workmanship I must say.
I hope not! It looks like the same boarding I had in a previous house with a log burner. There is a log burner in another room but that's been fitted in the last 3 years and the boarding doesn't appear to be removable.
Pretty sure it's cement board. This part of the house is a more modern extension albeit possibly as far back as the 50's or 60's
I'm planning on putting one of these and a hearth in place just for decoration and ventilation to stop damp problems https://www.flames.co.uk/cast-iron-fireplaces/carron-toulouse-cast-iron-fireplace.html I could ignore all that stuff as though I never saw it but would like to not have nightmares
if it was me because I would be fitting a log burner, the twin and earth I would remove it, check if it’s live with a multimeter or a electrical screwdriver, it should be on a isolated switch if not it must be coming from a junction box. you need find the other end of that cable and disconnect it.
Thanks. I'm only fitting a fireplace for decoration and to vent the chimney breast. It won't be a working fireplace. Whoever closed this one up didn't vent it at all.
I have found problems with damp where they've closed up the other fireplaces and not vented them adequately. And then on top of that some idiot has plastered right down to the ground without leaving a gap where it meets the floor so the plaster is wicking up moisture. Oh and all the bloody TV aerial cables going breaching the cavity walls too. I'm hoping this is the last room to fix now.If you ever get damp walls coming down from your chimney and it’s the original Victorian chimney don’t make the mistake I was making and get the chimney replaced with double lead trays, I had my rental chimneys repaired/repointed/reflashed/coated a couple of times and was still having problems with damp walls. I had it checked out and was told the bricks and mortar had reached saturation point and was just letting water down. When they took the old chimneys down they were just falling apart I was amazed the wind hadn’t blown them down. Not had any damp since, probably the first time in God knows how many years.
My son lives next door and I couldn’t work out why he wasn’t having damp walls if the chimney was knackered, then we found rubber under the plaster
I guess closing fireplaces up and not getting them hot with a fire doesn’t help as this would help dry them out.
Thanks! I used to live in Macclesfield but we moved to Conwy just before Christmas. My wife's parents are visiting this weekend so her dad (a retired builder) is going to have a look at it and see what he thinks. Currently we're thinking it's the water pipes from an old Baxi back boiler and the electrical cable would have been used to control the flue opening. I may well be in touch though! Thanks again!
That's what I'm thinking of doing. I probably already got a lung full of it when I pulled the plasterboard off. It's cemented onto the bricks above and I can't think of a foolproof way to remove it that doesn't have a degree of risk of damaging the board.
Aaargh! That is also what I was thinking. The chimney is capped off I think on that one which is why it wasn't vented. But still, yeah.
