Inset stoves

I used roofing slates as dpc, both horizontally and vertically. My hearth projected into timber suspended floor construction, so I used a pcc slab set on sleeper walls underneath, with parallel honeycombe walls supporting the floor joists abutting it, belt and braces.

 

@Loofah If you have one locally drop into the local architectural reclamation place and see what they've got. A colleague of mine got a large slab of slate to go under there stove at a very reasonable price.

 

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