Westond,I'm not trying to be rude when i suggest you reconsider doing this yourself. The point I want to make is that you must have some degree of judgement on what you are looking at while performing a task such as this (largly due to the enormous collective weight of all that brick). At minium one should have have played with legos and dominoes rather than vidio games as a kid to know that the intire fireplace will fall on you if you remove a few of the wrong bricks before removing others from above. The pics are interesting and you have a nice place but I don't need pictures to tell you the fireplace is not holding your house up. Look at your own pics (better still,the house) and it's obiovus the brick in last pic is only one brick deep. I realize the little "soldiers" at top in last pic might appear to be holding the ceiling/floor up but they are there to fill a gap and do not support a thing. There are things that should never be attempted without a basic understanding because you can't get it off the net despite what some believe. Think of it like this,with mortor falling out as you say yours has,the brick would shift and alow house to fall if house was supported by brick in fireplace. Removing the fireplace is a grunt job,hire some experienced grunts and spend your time doing what you do to earn a living or just go fishing. Fixing the hole after brick are gone require's even more construction skill so be prepared to hire a finish carpenter.

I would ask for a recommendation from your HVAC contrcator.

Well, 3-230C is for cold water and 3-230H is for hot water, so they are not what you want. I am going to bet that 3-230 and 3-230B have some clear difference such as one is for a 1.2" supply pipe and one is for a 3/4" water supply pipe. If you look at the further details, look for the one thing that they do not have in common and you will figure out the difference. Do you know if you have 1/2" or 1/4" water supply pipes going into the shower? The 3-1003-TR is a thermostatic valve and diverter in the same circle base, for a 1/2" water supply line. To see if it fits, go measure the distance between the center of the two pipes sticking out of your wall and see if that matches the measurement in the catalog description. You may have to look at the specification sheet. It sounds like you may not know what kind of shower you have. Either it is a thermostatic valve with a separate on/off valve. In this kind, the temperature (thermostatic) valve is set at the temperature you want and never has to move between showers (unless someone who likes a different temperature showers between your showers). You turn on the on/off valve only, and can control the volume to any strength between off and full. OR, you have a pressure-balanced shower control where you turn it on and as you get it further to the right, it gets hotter and stronger. You can't control the strength of the shower water, except by turning the hot/cold control. The second piece coming out of the wall directs the place the water is supposed to go. It could be to a bathtub filler or to a shower head or to a second shower head, or to body sprays. Some control two things only, others control three. If you are not in California, some will let you turn on two at the same time. With the builder telling you to get the diverter and valve, it sounds to me like you have a pressure-balance VALVE and need a DIVERTER to direct the water to one of two or three functions (shower head, tub filler...). But maybe not! You cannot be sure if you do not know what those valves sticking out of the wall are for. Are they 1/2" water supply or 3/4"? Is it a thermostatic valve or a pressure-balance valve? Is the other one a diverter to chose between tub and shower functions, or is it an on and off and volume valve for one shower head? Both of the valves you are showing are for thermostatic valves. Neither are for pressure-balance, so that is why the instructions to get a valve and diverter are confusing me. By now, your builder will be back tomorrow, so all this is moot. But I thought I would try to give you a primer on the different kinds of shower controls so you would know more when you talk to him. Your other option is to go read the boxes of the Newport valves that are in your walls. Is there a box the builder throws things in to be seen in the work area? Look for the boxes the valves in your walls came out of and read their part numbers. Then go pull them up on the search box on the website and see what kind they are.

it’s really a fun print. You can either pick your favorite color umbrella and go with that color — but do it a pattern mixed with blacks or browns so it can handle dirt — or you could pick a multi-colored rug, as colorful as the umbrellas — or just play it safe with a tweedy kind of dark rug that is good for an entryway. I think a narrow metal console table, or metal and glass, would be nicer than wood for the entry