Recent content by Mattsp1

it’s too late to do that in the bathroom now, the old flue has been boarded over and there’s a shower tight against the wall, my mrs would go ape **** if we had to pull that out now and re do it. I’m going to rebuild the bit in the attic this week, but, aside from that will it be safe? I’m a...

Thank you, by repointing, you mean put cement back in them yeah? as you might have guessed, I’m not very good at DIY and all the terms that go with it. I can ask my dad so that for me if so, that big joist running into the outside wall, that’ll be fine because it’s tied into that yeah...

Pictures should be added now.

I’m just looking for some straight answers. so we removed a chimney stack, there wasn’t one on the roof(it had already been taken away before we moved in) now I went into the attic yesterday and there seems to be an issue, there was about 10 or 15 bricks that were loose on the right side of...

He can come in through the back door, obv

No chimney is gone.

Took a chimney breast out a few weeks back, it was a floating chimney breast. Well, I went into the attic today and the small bit of small left behind was wobbling, so as you do? I took it down ‍♂️ I’ve attached photos, just need to check if it’s safe now?! Those breeze blocks are what the...

So we took a chimney out, and I’ve just been in the loft and a stack of bricks next to the old chimney were very wobbly, so I took them out....as you do ‍♂️ just need to make sure it’s still safe. Photos attached, where’s my man tony at?

No I know, I’ve only just discovered this forum really, and can I just say thank you all very much. You’ve put my worries at bay.

I did, I just worry as we are having a fair bit of work done upstairs in the bathroom so was concerned about it falling through our ceiling lol

Hi all, we live in a 1920s Victorian house, we have already knocked down the wall between the kitchen and the old dining room. The wall we removed was sat between two joists, but it went up and touched the joists, it simply sat between them. so my old man said it would be okay to knock down...

What about the wall downstairs? Kitchen through to dining room? With it sitting in between but never go up to the joists?

Thank you,

Ref. My father has done a lot of work on houses (his own house) and said it wasn’t load baring, so down it came. Apologies for my novice chat, I’m just not very good at DIY so not sure what you mean with a few of your statements. I’ll try and find some pictures of what we did.

There is no chimney on the roof anymore. we have a chimney in the middle of the house, ie, joining up with next doors chimney but the one we have taken away was apparently an old copper chimney?! Not sure if you’ve heard of that? sorry, I’m a novice and have just listened to my father in law...