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Nicky Colour it green
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 Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Sun Jun 28, 20 4:08 pm Subject: Fireplace |
I expect you know, or maybe someone has already said, but there are rules about the size of the hearth - it has to stick out so much further than the woodburner etc.
we made one with reclaimed gra ... |
| Topic: Fireplace |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Sun Jun 28, 20 11:41 am Subject: Fireplace |
| looks great - Sgt C - well done. What do you plan for a hearth? |
| Topic: Fireplace |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Fri Jun 26, 20 12:43 pm Subject: Fireplace |
OKay, I've found the original fireplace opening. 
http://www.downsizer.net/gallery/30331/20200625_161010.jpg
yay, nice looking arch - exciting  |
| Topic: Fireplace |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Fri Jun 26, 20 12:42 pm Subject: Fireplace |
| Sorry Nicky, but I have to disagree with you unless you always want to keep the door shut. We have a larger one, and with the door open, it provides some extra heat to the rest of the house. Keeps the ... |
| Topic: Fireplace |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Wed Jun 24, 20 6:53 pm Subject: Fireplace |
| you probably wont want to get a bigger woodburner - you need to size it for the room rather than the fireplace - but if you have space enough to stick a kettle or dutch oven on top of the burner, that ... |
| Topic: Fireplace |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Tue Jun 23, 20 3:05 pm Subject: Fireplace |
| at my parent's house one fireplace - when the plaster was stripped from the chimney breast there were signs of multiple alterations over the years - a big fireplace made into a smaller one, then made ... |
| Topic: Fireplace |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Mon Jun 22, 20 9:19 am Subject: Fireplace |
| if there isn't a decent arch or lintel, it isn't a biggy to slip one in and make it good. |
| Topic: Fireplace |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Mon Jun 22, 20 9:14 am Subject: Fireplace |
Your house is so full of good habits!
it is and it isn't - it is mostly slowly slumping....
In my experience, buildings fail slowly, not in a sudden whosh. Habit does hold things together for ... |
| Topic: Fireplace |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Sun Jun 21, 20 7:52 pm Subject: Fireplace |
| I think i would want to remove more of the plaster on the front of the chimney breast to establish there is a proper lintel or arch of bricks offering support to the higher chimney breast further up. ... |
| Topic: Barley Water |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Jun 01, 20 9:02 pm Subject: Barley Water |
| does it have to be barley water? would he enjoy lemon cordial? |
| Topic: Hello |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Sat May 23, 20 2:17 pm Subject: Hello |
| heya |
| Topic: My allotment |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat May 16, 20 10:36 am Subject: My allotment |
| well done |
| Topic: Exciting news |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri May 15, 20 5:56 pm Subject: Exciting news |
| i have ants in the greenhouse, we seem to muddle along together. They can make a lot of tunnels around the roots of the tomatoes which I think isn't ideal - but they dont like water and so it seems t ... |
| Topic: Used to be some pallets and a barrel. |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Sun May 10, 20 7:56 pm Subject: Used to be some pallets and a barrel. |
| pretty good. I've been eyeing up the pile of pallets and thinking of making a bench. I suspect my bench will look like a pile of pallets... |
| Topic: Squash plant sizes... |
Nicky Colour it green
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed May 06, 20 7:01 pm Subject: Squash plant sizes... |
| oh I had assumed it was just crown prince squash, they are pumpkin shaped. |
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