Hi. I’m currently having my fireplace refaced. The worker is currently in the process right now. He is going to finish up the fireplace first and then install a regency ci2700 insert. My question is in regards to the wood that is surrounded the fireplace (going to be covered up my ledger stone). Is that an issue that I have wood there. He’s saying it’s not an issue at all and is the best way to add ledger stone to it. I’ll attach a picture of before and after. Don’t pay attention to that insert in the first picture I removed that.