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Removal of chimney breast in house
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So are we saying that if the chimney is removed all the way upwards, from ground florr to roof, then nothing requires supporting? The house I'm in is like that. It was done before the previous buyer to me bought it so no one knows anything about it. The seller paid an indemnity insurance.0
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So are we saying that if the chimney is removed all the way upwards, from ground florr to roof, then nothing requires supporting?
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So are we saying that if the chimney is removed all the way upwards, from ground florr to roof, then nothing requires supporting? The house I'm in is like that. It was done before the previous buyer to me bought it so no one knows anything about it. The seller paid an indemnity insurance.
well there is nothing to support if nothing is there lol
we removed a chimney breast when we moved in here. it was a surprise it was hidden in a built in wardrobe and the people had only half taken it out. the stupid fools had only taken out the bottom half so we had 4 bricks holding up the rest of it (we are in a bungalow)
mr divadee started at top down and removed the lot.0 -
Why oh why do people vandalise their homes by ripping out chimneys? They add character and a bare wall isnt very exciting.0
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Why oh why do people vandalise their homes by ripping out chimneys? They add character and a bare wall isnt very exciting.
ours was in daughters bedroom hidden in crumbling built in wardrobes that were being ripped out lol. we had no choice but to take the rest out with the half finished job that we were left with.0 -
AS ABOVE i ve done a few and gallow brackets anre not preffered any more. rsj now and roughly 1500.
you can remove the chimney all the way up and close the roof, but that again will depend if that chimney stack is shared with the other neighbour, if so you cant remove it all the way0 -
Why oh why do people vandalise their homes by ripping out chimneys? They add character and a bare wall isnt very exciting.
Because most chimney breasts have already been 'vandalised' in each decade by the addition of something fashionable like a lovely teak gas fire, or stone cladding or a tile fire surrounding that sticks out another foot on top of the breast meaning a 13' wide room is reduced to 10' in the middle section.
But mainly because space is more precious than character.0 -
We lived in a bungalow once which was built with an absolutely enormous fireplace like something out of the Flintstones. We lived there quite happily for 5 years without ripping it out - it was part of the structure of the house, with the water tanks in the top of it, so that would have been pretty difficult to do. Eventually, the house burnt down and got demolished.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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