chimney

A loft extension was built next door in 2013, we moved into our home in 2017 and have recently had a survey to get a log burner fitted only to find the loft extension next door is blocking our chimney which now sits half way up their wall and we will need to extend to above their roof costing...

Just had an oil-fired boiler removed which was served by a stainless flue liner running up through a brick chimney which won't be used again. There's currently no chimney ventilation apart from the liner itself which is still open at the cowl. The liner at the bottom is actually mortared around...

Hi I need my chimneys rebuilding, these are located on the side of the house above my neighbours garage. A couple of builders say I require scaffolding (expensive) but wondering why they cannot use a tower instead? The chimney is leaning and needs correction, so will need a rebuild. Will...

My house had lots of weird stuff going on. This is a picture of the secondary chimney stack, what's with this weird triangular chimney cover? I can't find any info or similar designs online, anyone know what this type of arrangement would be called? I'm going to be doing some work on the primary...

Hello, Having some roof work done. Scaffolds are up so looking (in addition to various work on the roof) to get a liner put in my front chimney by the roofers. It will be a single skin liner for a gas fire. Won’t be used for other fuel types. The old Gas fire was disconnected before I bought...

We are renovating a 250 year old granite terraced cottage, and when we have gone to strip back and replaster the room on the 2nd/attic floor (which was converted to bedrooms years ago) we have found this (see picture) at the top of one gable wall. The granite and the brick sitting on top of the...

Hi guys, Please help me, I’m desperate for some advice. We live in an 1890’s mid terrace with an open fireplace into our bedroom, when we have rain we get drips coming straight down the fireplace and into the bedroom and I can’t for the life of me work out where the water is coming from and...

I'm looking for advice on how to access two chimney stacks for repointing on a butterfly roof of a Victorian house. I have scaffold at the front of the property but want to know the best way of getting to the chimneys.

I live in a relatively new house, circa 1990, and wish to install a wood burning stove into the lounge. As the house does not have a chimney a double lined aluminium chimney needs to go out then up the external wall at the side of the house (above my land). I've spent ages googling and...

I know it's a topic frequently discussed on here, but I thought I'd share my experience of installing a woodburning stove from start to finish. When I started this, I had good knowledge of some of the steps, but the project as a whole was daunting. Nonetheless, I got to it. It all started when...

Hi all, Been having something of 'mare since moving in a recently bought 50/60s bungalow. Previous lot hung a big picture on the chimney breast, and now I know why! Been around the houses on this and any thoughts would be great: 1- When stripping back walls, pre-decorating, we revealed big...

Hi guys. New user....hope you can point me in the right direction. One of my rooms on the ground floor (of terraced house) has a bricked up fireplace but the chimney was not capped. I had that done a few years after moving in as paint work started flaking on one of the chimney's adjacent...

Hi folks help needed. question 1. is this something I should be repairing as soon as possible. question 2. I have had 4 different people to quote me a price for repair ( without success)and nobody is willing or wanting to do the job. why Not? question 3. any idea how much this would cost to...

I have a wall and ceiling to finish in my bedroom. I'm fixing up after a chimney removal. I can put a piece of plasterboard in the hole in the ceiling but the wall is a bit more complicated. From the sample quotes I've seen online I can't afford a professional so I have been thinking of dot and...

We're slowly restoring our fireplace so it's bare brick! What do you lot think is best to plug the gap around the fireplace from where we removed the original breast plaster? Will bonding coat do the job? Cheers!

Hi all, I'm trying to run media cabling through a brick chimney breast and am looking for advice; I'm not sure how to build something that will allow me to access the conduit junction. I'd like to be able to re-run cabling at a later date without replastering. (Previous owners had VGA cables...

Hello everyone, I am planning to start using an old fireplace and I am a little worried that the mortar lining around the chimney and on the back wall could contain asbestos. It is fairly brittle and it didn't take very much for a piece of the lining to come off unintentionally when I was...

There was a big crack and hole in the plaster of our chimney breast so my wife started hacking at it and things escalated haha - My main concern is the archway section. It seems to be concreted up, is this usually to support the archway itself or maybe its just an aesthetic patch to square off...

Hi, I'm fitting a conventional flue gas fireplace with a 125mm (5") flue liner, however I have a clay chimney terminal which has a 180 (7") spigot on it which I need to connect on to. There seem to be various different types of adaptors available but I'm not exactly sure which one is...

We opened up an old chimney, and have had a woodburner installed (with a flue) We have a damp patch on the back of the fireplace recess (about 4' above the hearthstone), which was there for some time before the burner install, and is still there some months afterwards. We find drips of water on...