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making a double sided fireplace

14 years ago

the current fireplace is one sided and could be opened up to be two sided as it is placed between the family and ding room. Is this a possible project and what is an estimated expense for this?

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Nancy Knight
14 years ago
We opened ours up on both sides. The issue is the fire box and how it handles the smoke so we had to go all the way up and replace from the roof down including the chimney stack. It cost us around 5 thou. But that was I. The boom time. So CPU
D be less now
Kelley Middleton
14 years ago
Our experience was the same as Nancy's, had to do it from the roof. Expense was about the same I think as it was in 2007. I will say we love it and it was worth it!
Akbar Rahman
12 years ago
Nancy, we are building a house with a see through fireplace and everyone I talk to keep reminding me of the smoke issue. What exactly you had done with your chimney to reduce or eliminate the smoke?

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