Hello all, frequent lurker but not often poster in this sub.
Anyway, I have a craftsman style house built in 1896 and am looking to expose the brick where the chimney is. As a background, the chimney is in the center of the house so it's not an exterior wall (my house is wood frame, not brick). I can't figure out how to go about where the brick starts and ends. The brick starts in the basement - there's a large triangular chimney which I think might have been a wood burning furnace at some point (I don't know for sure, I'm not knowledgeable about this). The triangular structure continues up to the first floor where the fireplace is and I'm uncertain how the brick goes up from there.
My fear is tearing off plaster only to reveal wood slats which I'm not too keen on.
Also, I'm wondering if it's better to just keep the plaster up... Would cold air come through the chimney considerably without the plaster?
I've attached some crude drawings and photos of what I'm talking about.
Submitted October 30, 2015 at 09:18PM by generic_username_12 http://ift.tt/1LGwkPY
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