Random building work question [tv where fire was]

I'm thinking about sprucing up my house a little bit. The television is currently in the corner of the room in an alcove. Has anyone on here had any experience of having work done on to the chimney breast so the TV could go in there similar to the photo enclosed?

There is an electric fire in place which isn't in used but would need to be removed, filled in and plastered over. Anyone got any ideas of a rough price, or even recommendations for builders? Ta

 

We have just had almost the exact sam thing done, except we have three circular ceiling speakers under the tv, so they sit flush to the wall.

Looks mint, but was a ******* to do.

In the end, instead of knocking the **** out of the chimney breast, we built a frame around it, about 5 inch from the wall, and plasterboarded it up to create a false wall. Only thing we knocked out, was the rectangle at the bottom for DVd/sky box etc. Thats was simple enough as te hole was already there from the old back boiler that used to be fitterd.

Cost wise, I cant really hep with as we got alot done free from a family member, but you will have to pay for an electrician to do the wiring, and a plasterer to do the plasterboarding and skimming. We had our full room plastered, and it was fairly reasonable at about £250, and the sparky would have been had to charge us for about a full day, which I think would have been about £250(might be under esimating it a little).

Also, invest in new bracket for the tv(we got one on an arm so we could pull it out to clean behind, and brand new HDMI's etc, as if one goes wrong, its a right **** to sort(this is from personal experience, and also you would need the latest HDMI technology if you ever go to a 4K TV.

 

Cheers for that. I intended to leave a bit more room around than the one in the photo above just for future proofing and bigger televisions. I do like your idea of just using the hole for the boxes under the telly [which would be there once the fire is out], something I'd not thought of. I had given thought to the access to the HDMI/aerial as the slots are a bugger to find on my current setup and that's wall mounted. Ta