Fireplace Base

The fireplace base stands on a pad footing the same depth as the strip footing. The base is built up using double-skin brickwork, and stops at bearer level, with the other base brickwork. The inner skin stops one course below that, and then a slab of concrete is poured into the top (a sheet of timber covers the central cavity). Re-inforcing steel is placed into the cement. The fireplace proper is then laid onto the base bricks and concrete slab.