Carl Finnell · Brick chambers
A stove set in a brick chamber with a beam above is the most popular look we fit. Choose your options below, see your chamber take shape, then send it to us for a tailored quote.
Your chamber
Choose your options to build your chamber.
Chambers are bespoke, so the cost is confirmed in one written quote after a free home survey. No obligation.
Brick chambers
A brick chamber can add warmth, character and timeless appeal to your fireplace, creating the perfect backdrop for your new wood burning stove. At Carl Finnell we offer a wide selection of brick colours and finishes, allowing us to create a chamber that complements both your home and your personal style.
Where possible, we carefully match the brickwork to the original bricks used in your property's construction, for a seamless, authentic look. We also consider your interior decor, wall finishes and furnishings, so the fireplace feels beautifully integrated with the rest of your living space.
Whether you are looking for a traditional rustic appearance or a more contemporary finish, we will help you choose the ideal brick chamber to enhance the focal point of your room.
The anatomy
A chamber is the built environment the stove lives in, and every part of it is doing a job. The opening itself is formed or enlarged and given a proper lintel. The chamber walls are lined in your chosen brick slips, laid on heat-safe backers with the right adhesives, because everything this close to a stove has to live with real temperatures year after year. Above the opening sits the beam, solid oak where the clearances allow it, or the non-combustible Inglebeam where the design wants the beam nearer the heat.
Below it all is the hearth, cut in granite, slate, stone or porcelain, sized to Building Regulations and shaped to the room, and behind the scenes a register plate closes the flue off so the chamber stays clean and the draw stays strong. We design all of it together on the home survey, so the proportions, the materials and the stove itself arrive as one considered picture rather than parts that happen to share a wall.
Not sure brick is right?
Brick is the classic, but it is not the only option. If you prefer a cleaner, more contemporary panel, the Linear porcelain chamber range gives you four separate designs for the room: Light, Mocha, Beige and Grey. Porcelain brick and split face chambers are on the way too.
HETAS registered
Carl self-certifies every installation and notifies Building Control on your behalf, so the work is signed off properly and your certificate of compliance is issued for your records.
Common questions
Yes. We can form a completely new chamber, either by opening up a bricked-up chimney breast or by building a false chimney breast against a flat wall with a twin-wall flue behind it. The finished room looks like the fireplace was always there.
Where possible we match the chamber to the original bricks used in your property, for a seamless, authentic look. We bring samples to the home survey and choose the colour against your walls, floor and light.
A solid oak beam needs a safe clearance from the stove, which we work out from the stove manufacturer instructions on the survey. Where the design puts the beam closer than timber allows, we fit a non-combustible Inglebeam, cast to look like real oak but fireproof, so the look is the same and the clearances still work.
Most chambers are built and finished as part of a two to three day stove installation, depending on how much opening out and making good is involved. Forming a new opening or building a false chimney breast takes longer than dressing an existing one, and you will know the timescale before work starts.
Yes. The chamber sits right behind and around the stove, so everything in it must handle sustained heat: the brick slips, the boards behind them, the adhesives and the hearth itself. Using ordinary plasterboard or the wrong adhesive is one of the most common faults we are asked to put right on chambers built by others.
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HETAS-registered installs. We cover Leeds, Harrogate, Wetherby, York, Ripon, Malton, Thirsk and Scarborough.
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