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I want to fit a wood burning stove. Or rather, get someone else to fit one. There is an opening in the chimney breast which this is quite small. However, the Hobbit Stove (http://salamanderstoves.com/product/the-hobbit-se/) looks like it will fit and passes the mrs_com test.Attached is a photo for context.
It seems that whoever renovated the house removed any kind of hearth that might have been around the fireplace and in fact the laminate flooring "gives" a little around the fireplace so there appears to be a bit of a gap underneath.
My plan is to chop out an area of laminate in front of the fireplace (roughly the red lines), cut a T-shaped piece of ply to fit in this chopped area and into the back of the fireplace, tile over this ply with whatever we end up choosing as our hearth material and them trim around the edge of the tile which I am expecting to be proud of the laminate.
We can then get the installer to fit a liner/flue up the existing chimney (there is a draw just no idea how sound the existing lining is) and fit the stove with the flue coming from the back of it so that the stove itself can sit slightly out from the chimney breast so that we can set either one of those heat driven fans or a kettle on top.
What of this plan is completely ludicrous or what have I missed?
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