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A good few years ago we had a leak from our shared Chimney had a repair carried out and damp proof coating on the outside brickwork, until all this recent extreme weather it had been fine. However we now have a soaking wet internal chimney breast and adjoining wall on the return - this is a shared chimney with our elderley neighbour, I enquired with him if he had any damage informed me he didnt so I informed him I would be getting somebody to look at what is causing the damage. It is just General wear and tear 2 different contractors advised a repair on my half between £200 & £400 or complete stack removal everything put right 1k. I challenged the neighbour with this information and informed him cost wise we would prefer the Stack removal rather than keep spending out on it repairing, from this he invited me into his home to find he has an extremely old gas fire in the downstairs breast - and he has if not worse water damage than us on his upstairs breast. I arranged for a Gas engineer to check his fire for him it has been condemned as unsafe so being capped off(also the elderley gentleman never used it). But he is now being advised by a family member who doesnt live their to ask lots of questions such as how much to rebuild the chimney, can we just leave his half up etc - all these options are a lot more costly than basic stack removal and it's starting to feel like he is trying to avoid any cost or removal. I spoke with my local council not sure if they could advise with it being private homes and was informed they could arrange Enviro Health request of Advice visit, is anyone aware of what happens with this can they instruct the stack to be removed. Trying to stay amicable with the neighbour over this but he just keeps throwing new challenges to avoid what actually needs to be done and basically I dont want more damage in my property - can anyone shed some advice on how to deal with this issue. TIA