We had hopes that the beautiful Victorian brick would could be exposed and we’ve have a nice focal point for the dining room. It was a ‘wow’ of disappointment unfortunately. As we tore off the facade, it became evident that was not to be. Still we are glad we did it since there was nothing holding the stone facade to the wall!
I was able to just pick the mantle up off the supports. We have salvaged it for later. The fake stone bricks were just stacked on each other with flimsy mortar and nothing connecting them to the wall.
As we continued our dream of exposed masonry was dealt its death blow by two runs of ductwork that provide heating to our upstairs.
We also salvaged the fake stone and plan to use it for a path in the yard.
Chris got the last of the new hearth brick work off last night. There’s some lovely old brick that was likely the original hearth. Just on the edge of that is a peep of what looks to be the old oil cloth linoleum.
Another bummer note is that our plan to put a wood burning insert into the old chimney just won’t work because there isn’t enough room for one. And the other little bit of horror arrives when one of our expert trades had a look at the thing and determined that the chimney is only standing up by the grace of God. 😳 we plan to fox it so that more than faith is holding it all up.
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