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the villa is not built yet.. can i build a fireplace later, after the villa is finished? or should i tell the construction company now, so they can build a proper place for it?
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Change orders are more expensive, but easier to do now if you want a wood burning or gas fireplace. You need a chimney with proper brick insulation, etc. There are also some beautiful ELECTRIC fireplaces that are mantles that fit flush against the wall that have electric logs that glow. You could add those anytime. See RCI Wood Products / Rustic Crafts. www.RCIWoodProducts.com 570-253-7233. I've done the research!!! These are the most affordable carved, exquisite pieces, albeit there are a few dinky ones for less. Also many stone ones that are $$$
Change orders are more expensive, but easier to do now if you want a wood burning or gas fireplace. You need a chimney with proper brick insulation, etc. There are also some beautiful ELECTRIC fireplaces that are mantles that fit flush against the wall that have electric logs that glow. You could add those anytime. See RCI Wood Products / Rustic Crafts. www.RCIWoodProducts.com 570-253-7233. I've done the research!!! These are the most affordable carved, exquisite pieces, albeit there are a few dinky ones for less. Also many stone ones that are $$$
How many fires did those Victorians have?
JOE
In Victorian houses you see fireplaces in most rooms, even the very poor terraced houses have several of them. So were most of these fireplaces unused, or did most people have fires in lots of different rooms in their houses? Like when they went to bed would the family take some of the burning embers from the living room fireplace to all the bedroom fireplaces, or would most of the bedroom fireplaces just have stayed unused pretty much all of the time?
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You only usually had fires in the bedroom if you were ill or it was exceptionally cold. If you heated downstairs, most of the heat ended upstairs anyway. Much more usual to have warming pans (which is where you put your embers) or (stone) hot water bottles. Getting up in the morning was a bit of a challenge.
I grew up in a house with coal fires - and the upstairs fireplaces were taken out as they were never used. (We did have electric blankets when they were affordable and reliable, hurrah).You got some warmth from the flue that passed through the room. In winter you gathered up your clothes and trotted downstairs and got dressed in front of the fire in the living room - the only one that was made up in the morning.
Many houses were in multiple occupation, though so where you were more or less living in a bed sit you would use the fire. Lugging coal up and down everyday was not for the faint hearted. But then even office blocks and hotels all had coal fires in each room so it was what you did.
You only usually had fires in the bedroom if you were ill or it was exceptionally cold. If you heated downstairs, most of the heat ended upstairs anyway. Much more usual to have warming pans (which is where you put your embers) or (stone) hot water bottles. Getting up in the morning was a bit of a challenge.
I grew up in a house with coal fires - and the upstairs fireplaces were taken out as they were never used. (We did have electric blankets when they were affordable and reliable, hurrah).You got some warmth from the flue that passed through the room. In winter you gathered up your clothes and trotted downstairs and got dressed in front of the fire in the living room - the only one that was made up in the morning.
Many houses were in multiple occupation, though so where you were more or less living in a bed sit you would use the fire. Lugging coal up and down everyday was not for the faint hearted. But then even office blocks and hotels all had coal fires in each room so it was what you did.
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