Chim chiminey, chim chiminey

A diamond in the rough- that's how I saw this beautiful piece of functional brickwork in the attic. With love, imagination, hard work, plenty of elbow grease, and music blasting in the background I uncovered this treasure and made it glow.



over 100 years of soot

However, I have incurred the wrath of Brewey and Two-Heads because they are now tasked with re-pointing it all, and with plastering up to each brick to finish the job.

Here's where we're at so far;


before work started



top section and right side scrubbed

excess mortar needed to be chipped away

sore fingers

 

You can see the straight lines where the plaster board was cut to fit. The walls will be plastered over right up to each brick, and after the re-pointing has been done I'll seal the bricks (I'm sure Google will give me advice).

 

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