After two seasons, I'm considering some major surgery to the hearth. The lintel is a 3" flat peice of iron holding up the bricks. How would an experienced fireplace surgeon raise the lintel without risking collapse?
The course of bricks surrounding the stove looks to be a fascade and not structural, and will likely be removed. The lintel spans both the fascade course of bricks and the structural ones behind it. All bricks were added sometime in the 20th century to a much older stone fireplace dating from the 18th or 19th century.
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The course of bricks surrounding the stove looks to be a fascade and not structural, and will likely be removed. The lintel spans both the fascade course of bricks and the structural ones behind it. All bricks were added sometime in the 20th century to a much older stone fireplace dating from the 18th or 19th century.
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