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Bioethanol fireplace in stud wall

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.04 PM

Evening all, I have a limestone fireplace with an electric fireplace in my lounge. The limestone fireplace looks like it's been glued to the wall with no more nails! I'm interested to gather opinions on removing this, building a stud wall (fake chimney breast). Wall mounting the tv on this wall, and then at the bottom, have a wall mounted or inserted bioethanol fireplace. Could this work, and will something like this set me back a lot? Cheers

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Anonymous user

The best way of dealing with this is as follows :- 1. Carefully remove Limestone Fireplace, if it is fixed with no nails, then it may bring the plaster off in places, this won't matter as you are building around the existing chimney breast anyway. 2. Build out from existing chimney breast using metal stud and fireline plaster boards. 3. Recess the TV into the stud & plaster boarding and ensure the TV screen sits back into the recess by 50 mm so it it is not directly effected by the heat from the fireplace below. 4. Use Victas Heat resistant top coat plaster on the complete chimney breast. 5. Use Gas Safe Engineer for removal of Bioethanol fireplace and registered electrician. 6. Stud work is reasonably easy for competent DIY'er, if not post your job locally on mybuilder.

Answered22 September 2019