Our new chimney

Our new chimney and French fire box. A double sided masterpiece. It can be used as a combustion heater or the glass disappears behing the bricks for a double sided open fire. Thanks boys for carrying all 250kgs.

We flew out a French designer/installer from Chiminees Philippe in France for a week to make sure it was perfect.
(no just kidding! I struggled through being fire box project manager/ installer.)

Very happy with the brickwork thanks boys and I found some nice cast iron side air vents in Melbourne (still in Melbourne if anyone wants to pick them up for me).

Bricks and mortar - April 2011

It has been way too long between blogs - too much else to do! The house is looking very big and solid thanks to Antonio (pictured with Paul the Pirate) and his very talented team of brickies. Biscuit the dog is working hard and very helpful at lunch break! And Wally the new orphan calf is supervising well!

On Monday our French fire box will be bricked in if we can get our heads around the instructions. It should be fabulous as it can be an open fire or glass fronted combustion fire. I towed it home from Mt Barker at about 20kph with complete paranoia!