Partial removal of chimney

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Hello All,

We'd like to remove the chimney from our house. It is a single storey bungalow and the chimney is central to the house. Only used for one room.

We'd like to remove it to free up space in the living area. There was a back boiler and fire in it but these have been replaced with a new heating system elsewhere.

Here's the problem. We want to keep the chimney outside the roof, purely for aesthetic reasons. The house would look wrong without it.

So can the upper-most part be supported in some way?

TIA, J
 
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it is possible, in some situations to gallows bracket or support with steel beam, the remainder of the chimney above ceiling level.

i would be inclined to seek professional assurance though.
 
Thanks Noseall.

Decided to just take the whole thing down :LOL:.

J
 
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The house would look wrong without it.

how so? :confused:

I tend to agree, although it does depend on the style and age of the existing house and on a bungalow it probably wouldn't make much difference. Many of the houses we work on are traditional houses and in my opinion they would look odd without a traditional feature such as a chimney. This is even more so if the house is in a row of simlar houses, all of which have chimneys but then one has it removed - it would make that house look odd and may even reduce its value (or so my parents were told when they wanted to alter something on their house so it no longer matched the neighbouring houses). Much of our work is in a national park and, on the rare occasions we get to build new dwellings, we have, in some cases, included dummy chimneys at the ridge purely for asthetic purposes.
 

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