Complete DIY job. Looks FANTASTIC!

[Suz]

Earlier posting from Big Wallop:

:So it's just an old water tank for the back of an open fire ? That won't :cause any problems at all, so you'd be able to use a timber moulding fixed :with No More Nails around the outside of the opening. Cheap. Cheerful, and :can be finished in any style you wish.

A DIY job complete! Stinky 70s fireplace ripped out, big hole cement in, got a pro to plaster, built the bottom up to make hole in wall fireplace. Lined the base with 65p slate look vinyl tiles Finished off with chamfered wood cut into a frame. No tools only a hacksaw and a page folded on the diagonal to make 45 degrees, much giggling and 4 wonky bits of frame later, needed a load of polyfilla in the edges. Stuck on with No More Nails as advised. Now all painted up and it looks FAN-TAS-TIC. 2 poofs off million £ eat your heart out!

Thanks for everyone's advice Suzanne

[Set Square]

How about a photo then?

[Uploaded to a website, with a link posted here, of course - *not* as an attachment!]

[Witchy]

built the bottom up to make hole in wall fireplace. Lined

a page folded on the diagonal to make 45 degrees,

the edges. Stuck on with No More Nails as advised.

Hehehe!

In all the years I've been doing this DIY gubbins as well as watching the so-called 'pros' do it the more I've come to rely on not-quite-so-perfect joins that can be disguised with polyfilla. Back when I was working our company was the first into a refurbished office block, and because we were an IT company we got the job of sorting out the on-site cafe to be an internet cafe. Suffice to say I've never seen so many bodge jobs in me life that were covered up with either plasterboard, polyfilla or caulk........

-- cheers,

witchy/binarydinosaurs

[BigWallop]

built the bottom up to make hole in wall fireplace. Lined

hacksaw and a page folded on the diagonal to make 45 degrees,

in the edges. Stuck on with No More Nails as advised.

Perfek !!! Loverly Jublee.

[Suz]

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: > A DIY job complete! : >

: > Thanks for everyone's advice : > Suzanne : : : How about a photo then? : K then! Got a before, just need a sec to take an after!

[Suz]

: Suffice to say I've never : seen so many bodge jobs in me life

u from Ulster then? (In ME life) or poss Scotland..

[Witchy]

Nope - Newcassel :) Whey aye an' all of that stuff.

-- cheers,

witchy/binarydinosaurs