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  • Well, if the poltergeist wasn't happy before, it'll be properly fucked off now. The steel for the main breast is still there. The sticky out steels were for a wooden beam (that had twisted like a proper bastard) that was holding up the outer skin, which is now gone. Going to get it tidied up, made secure and boxed in leaving a more normal sized fireplace opening for a decorative mantle piece, or something.

  • twisted like a proper bastard

    I think the lesson here is if you build a big fancy fireplace make it non-structural

  • It had twisted along its length rather than bowed under the weight. Which mean it wasn't actually hold the bricks up anyway.

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