In the process of doing a complete strip down on my house, it's a mid 70s 3 bed semi. The gas fire in the living room looked about the same sort of vintage so I've stripped it out in favour of an electric one, mainly for show as I've got central heating.
The flue is built into the party wall and comes out into the loft as a pipe which goes up to the highest point of the roof and into a 'special' ridge tile that looks like a vent.
It looks like over the years this flue has wreaked havoc with the rest of the wall, I assume it was leaking, as the mortar between the blocks has cracked and the plaster is all cracked, right on the route of this flue, on the ground floor and upstairs.
Have I got to do anything special to get rid of this flue? If I brick it up in the living room and cap it off in the loft, do I need to leave it vented? I'm hoping once it's been replastered it's going to hold together and not fall off again as someone has had a go at skimming it before, and then they clad it with some crappy wooden panelling instead lol. Any thoughts/suggestions?
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The flue is built into the party wall and comes out into the loft as a pipe which goes up to the highest point of the roof and into a 'special' ridge tile that looks like a vent.
It looks like over the years this flue has wreaked havoc with the rest of the wall, I assume it was leaking, as the mortar between the blocks has cracked and the plaster is all cracked, right on the route of this flue, on the ground floor and upstairs.
Have I got to do anything special to get rid of this flue? If I brick it up in the living room and cap it off in the loft, do I need to leave it vented? I'm hoping once it's been replastered it's going to hold together and not fall off again as someone has had a go at skimming it before, and then they clad it with some crappy wooden panelling instead lol. Any thoughts/suggestions?
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