Sorry for my recent absence, been up to my ears in work, but sadly not on my cabin. I've worked 14 days out of 15 and this is my first proper day off. I'm knackered!
Anyway I did indeed add another update to the blog showing the fireplace corner (see above posting from Laro13).
I'm picking my Mother and brother up from Calais Monday and bringing them back here for a week. They're staying at a neighbours Gite (B&B) for the next week and both will be helping me do stuff on the house and garden. Hopefully the woodburner will be installed one day this week, but the stone hearth and tiles on the wall behind it will have to wait until next year. That's a job I want to take my time over to make a proper job of it, not throw it all in the corner and hope it looks good. Simply can't rush a job like that can you?
The fireplace corner has now been clad in plasterboard, except for where I want to cut a hole through the wall for the chimney to exit and another one below and adjacent to it to draw air to the fire from outside the cabin. Figured that's better than have the warm air from inside the room sucked into the woodburner to feed the flames. Plus I won't having draughts blowing across the room as the fire draws in air.
Incidentally that twin of the woodburner I have that I saw on eBay finally sold for £390 with £75 P&P. :yikes: I watched it end and couldn't believe the flurry of bidding activity it got in the last 5 mins.... I'd only paid £10 for mine 10 years ago
Here's the fireplace. The position of the stove pipe will be roughly where it is shown. You can see the high res image at the blog, I can't post it here in the forum.
I had some messages about using silver paper and the risk of condensation build up. There's a 2 inch gap where the ceiling met the original wall, my new studded walls covers this gap, so there is ventilation for any moisture to evaporate away. Also once the walls are sealed off from the inside with the plasterboard, the insulation should keep the temperature pretty constant in that cavity so no condensation should build up in there... well that's the plan anyway. I've been in the house three weeks already and it seems fine and we've had a LOT of rain of late.
Thanks for reading.