Off Topic The Burly Arms

The issue of bricking up an old working fireplace is that over years of burning stuff in them the bricks absorb all the chemicals etc. Then once there is no heat being produced all the stuff they've absorbed over the last hundred years starts to come out. Best thing you can do with an old fireplace is have the brickwork exposed and the fireplace recessed.

Other alternative is to use lime plaster upto the height of 4ft on the actual fireplace and walls either side. Lim plaster will absorb the damp and any salts coming out of the brick.

 

Why brick up a fireplace at all? It can always be turned into a nice feature.

 

Like a fireplace

 

Home is where the hearth is.

 

Indeed hence my suggestion to recess it and expose the brickwork.

Though if people want them bricked up use lime plaster.

My house has had them all bricked up by the developer I bought it off. I will be opening mine up in the sitting room, also the one in the lounge. The lounge one I will just recess the sitting room I want a wood burning stove.

Just procured a load of original Georgian doors for the house. Just need to find someone to fit the ****ers.

 

thought he was off to the Dam or somewhere equally seedy?

 

That was a while ago I thought.

****er is locked up somewhere abroad, truss.

 

Yeah a summer in jail abroad, bad times. It's only happened to me 3 times, quite fortunate really

 

Was confronted with this teaser when we touched down in Cantabria

 

Suffice to say, I didn't chose the one on the right!

Now in France, Pelforth a plenty.

 

Did you go for the Perno?

 

No, I didn't you screaming bufty.

I had a pint of the good stuff. Estrella Galicia reserva

 

Looks like a nice little bar. Have one for me, Cheers

 

These are the kind of dilemmas I like to embrace

 

I will. It'll be cold as ****.

 

That kid he slapped up for teasing his dog come back with his crew and sent him straight to ICU.

 

Real problems.

 

Chilling at home with some tunes on...

Just noticed Anthea Turner on this morning looking rather hot! She's 57

 

She's never been hot. She's got a jaw like Desperate Dan.

 

Might be the weed, or it might not be her.

**** knows.