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Hi. Hopefully someone can help me out here as the council are a word I wont use here.
So my story is that I want to remove the entire chimney stack including above the roof, as supporting the stack is too costly despite it being a very small stack above the roof. This Stack is on a party wall and back to back with nextdoors in a 1950-1960s semi detached.
Now what I want to know due to the council being unhelpful and seem to want me to pay them first is if I need building control involved?
I plan to put a party wall act thing in place and get a structural engineer in to ascertain if it can be done without compromising the wall. Obviously if it turns out that it will need certain measures put in place to do the work and keep the wall secure then Building Control application will be needed but if my SE says its fine do I need to involve BC at all?
The other question is that my front wall has a door opening then a column of about 600mm wide then a large floor to ceiling window *Shown bricked partailly up in the pic attached. Intersecting the column between the door and the window on the inside is a wall dividing the hall and the living room shown circled in red on the pic attached. This wall is currently much longer with a doorway in it and only goes up to the ceiling level. Do you guys think it is a buttressing wall seeing as its not the full height of the front elevation and if its not can I reduce it right down to 150mm so its just enough to sit an RSJ on?
Thanks for all your thoughts.
James
So my story is that I want to remove the entire chimney stack including above the roof, as supporting the stack is too costly despite it being a very small stack above the roof. This Stack is on a party wall and back to back with nextdoors in a 1950-1960s semi detached.
Now what I want to know due to the council being unhelpful and seem to want me to pay them first is if I need building control involved?
I plan to put a party wall act thing in place and get a structural engineer in to ascertain if it can be done without compromising the wall. Obviously if it turns out that it will need certain measures put in place to do the work and keep the wall secure then Building Control application will be needed but if my SE says its fine do I need to involve BC at all?
The other question is that my front wall has a door opening then a column of about 600mm wide then a large floor to ceiling window *Shown bricked partailly up in the pic attached. Intersecting the column between the door and the window on the inside is a wall dividing the hall and the living room shown circled in red on the pic attached. This wall is currently much longer with a doorway in it and only goes up to the ceiling level. Do you guys think it is a buttressing wall seeing as its not the full height of the front elevation and if its not can I reduce it right down to 150mm so its just enough to sit an RSJ on?
Thanks for all your thoughts.
James