Decorative redbrick with period features - and lots of fireplaces
May 19, 2012 | DUBLIN 6 €985,000: THIS REDBRICK house is impressive from the outside, with its tall, arched windows, wide front, decorative details – such as the lines of dark brick picking out the shape of the windows – and three storeys. It comprises a kitchen, with quarry-tiled floor and Aga, and a sitting room, with pine floor and exposed-timber ceiling. When they first moved in they turned it into a family home by incorporating a bedsit on the first floor back into the rest of the house. This is in exposed brick and pine, and was built just before Dublin 6’s love affair with Modernism in extension design began. The extension has faceted walls and large, west-facing windows beside the paved garden. The current owners of this 253sq m (2,723sq ft) house, which is for sale at € 985,000 through Allen and Jacobs Estates, have been here for 29 years. And in 1989 they added an extension to the rear. And 8 Windsor Road, between Ranelagh and Rathmines, is deceptively large inside.
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Fireplace Doors?
Feb 26, 2007 by super93cobra
I have a wood buring fire place and installed glass doors. I wanted to know if I could close the door well a fire is burning. The instructions said not to close the doors because they may break. Anyone have any answers for me.
The doors are from lowes and brand new is Pleasant Hearth
thanks
we always keep our glass doors open when the fire is burning. We used to have a real fire, now we have a gas fire, either way we keep eh doors open. But we do have a chain screener that is in the fireplace that we keep closed. It doesn't block the heat and it keeps everyone safe
Is it hard to install fireplace doors?
Oct 10, 2007 by hello
We have an existing fireplace insert brass-framed glass doors and we want to replace it with a silver-framed fireplace glass doors. Is that hard to do? I have no idea how to uninstall our existing insert, if you have tips, let me know.
The fireplace door insert looks like this:
http://www.northlineexpress.com/customkititems.asp?kc=5HC%2DSENTRY%2DT
The surround is brick. The frame is inserted into the fireplace whole. Not sure how it is attached. Hoping the directions of the new screen will shed some light for me since we didn't install the old one, came with the house when we bought it.
With all due respect; some obvious means/method of the initial install should exist. That might dictate removal and NEW. HARD is relative; given the OLD and your skill levels or patience; etc.
Certainly you have to remove OLD before you can proceed; so you might look at HOW it was installed. Also some info about the structure of the fireplace and the surrounding face might help us.
It could be that it was "tapped" into fire brick? and that method of attachment just has to be reversed. The options pretty much depend on you knowing how the old was installed.
Steven Wolf