Me and my Mrs Chimney attempt

[berkeley384]

Hello, was going to wait till it was done as it may be quite a while till I get the flooring down and the frame plastered but thought I'd show off where we are up to so far

Firstly here is a pic of our nasty old fireplace ...

SO, firstly old fireplace out and hole blocked up ..

Basic frame put up ...

Purchased bracket ...

Made a hole for the bracket ...

And then mounted it ...

Finshed off the frame and mounted the TV ..

Tomorrow we'll be plasterboarding it hopefully , then we can crack on with a new floor etc

Anyways, thanks for looking, any comments welcome

[willo]

Looking good What are you changing your flooring to? Your floorboards look nice as they are.

[Scifi Lord]

Looking forward to the finished job.

[snowyweston]

Good to see people are mounting their TV's at a lower-more-on-level-with-their-eyes-when-seated-height in the real world - I'm so tired of seeing picture/mirror height installs on chimney breasts in advertisments and through people's living room windows.

[rssteve]

is that a live gas pipe in the wall? just curious as its yellow>?

[jolly]

What make is the bracket, it looks a quality item

[berkeley384]

Done a little bit more today, but got bored and stopped ..

Basically we've plasterboarded around where the TV sits, tomorrow we will do the lower shelf where the centre speaker will sit .. anyhoo , heres a few pictures ..

Just to be on the safe side the we've put holes in the top piece to add extra ventilation ..

[berkeley384]

Looking good What are you changing your flooring to? Your floorboards look nice as they are.

Unfortunatley the chimnet doesnt come out as far as the fireplace did so we now have a rather latge patch of missing floor - its only laminate anyway so we'll just start over and do it again

Good to see people are mounting their TV's at a lower-more-on-level-with-their-eyes-when-seated-height in the real world - I'm so tired of seeing picture/mirror height installs on chimney breasts in advertisments and through people's living room windows.

Totally agree, if anything it may be an inch or so higher than I'd prefer it, but I wanted to keep the centre speaker at a reasonable height

is that a live gas pipe in the wall? just curious as its yellow>?

Yes, well at leatst it was, kind of is, we paid someone to (corgi registered) to come round and take out the fireplace, that pipe goes into the old fireplace hole and has been capped off

What make is the bracket, it looks a quality item

Im unsure of the make, I got it from www.bracketsrus.co.uk, it was 49.99 inc delivery, I wanted something that allowed me to pull the TV out to get to the cables behind it and its worked out really well. I wasn't particularly pleased with the customer service from BRU as I asked for measurements of the bracket and several e-mails were ignored and their site lists no contact telephone number. Also when I ordered it I didnt get any kind of confirmation that it had been ordered or that payment was successful etc.

When I eventually managed to get a tel number for them I spoke to possibly the nicest bloke on the planet and it did turn up within 2 days which was good

[albriscoe]

thats all looking really good and I like the bracket as well

keep that blokes no. as I`m sure you`ll be asked for it in the future

keep up with the pics as well

cheers Al

[alz2605]

Love the work so far! Can't wait to see the end reuslt! I can see this being a great thread! Great TV bracket too! Just what I was looking for the bedroom TV!

[berkeley384]

Well we're totally knackered tonight, we've only just finished and its 21:47

We're not your regular DIYers, something of this size of job we'd normally leave to a proffessional. What amuses me most is that I've read through countless DIY projects and thought "is that all they've done". Its quite apparent to me now that this isn't as easy as it looks and is very hard work and is very time consuming.

Anhoo here is some pics of todays work, we got more do than I expected but still quite a way to go...

Firstly we made the box section for the centre speaker, candles, girly bits and bobs etc ...

Then we cracked on makeing the front, this was the bit I was looking forward to the least .....

Mounted the TV and placed the speakers to get an idea of how it will all be when its done ....

Let me know what you think

[jolly]

Coming along nicely, like the speaker stands

Are you going to tape and joint the plasterboard or skim it?

[elootos]

Your build's looking good. Although when I first saw the thread title I thought; why's he called it his 'Mrs Chimney'?

[tojo]

For those of you interested (including me!), this is the bracket:

http://www.bracketsrus.co.uk/cart.ph...t_detail&p=109

[berkeley384]

Originally Posted by tojo

For those of you interested (including me!), this is the bracket:

http://www.bracketsrus.co.uk/cart.ph...t_detail&p=109

Hi tojo, yes that is the bracket I used, however it would seem that in the last few days its gone up in price as I only paid £49.99 fo it.

Regarding plastering, I have called a local firm to come round and give me a quote, It would seem a shame to make a mess of it now by doing a shoddy platstering job.

Once its done I'll report back and advise how they did it and post up some pics.

Stephen