While the wood stove is out of the way, it was a good time to work on the wall behind it. Here I am boxing in some electrical conduit  that didn’t quite match up with where the wall ended up.  This will get plastered over and should pretty much disappear.Now to plaster the wall.  We were going to install the slate stone veneer all the way up to the soffit on this wall but we changed to having a partial stone wall.  Again, it was much easier to do this with the stove out of the way. With the plastering done, now it’s time to move the wood stove up onto the hearth.  How do two “Old Guys” lift a 500lb stove up 12″?……. Very carefully.It involved tilting it back and forth onto and ever increasing stack of 2X6’s

Next up, the big “reveal”