Recent content by nimettay

The issue briefly is it is leaking water into the loft but there are also bricks falling into the remainder of the chimney stack (in the loft) presumably from the stack above the roof.

Hi, following on from my previous thread we have been advised to have a formal inspection done on our chimney stack - is it a structural engineer I will need to contact for this? *clueless*

Hi thanks for the replies. The remainder of the stack must stay in place as it's on a party wall unfortunately. Apparently when the work was done, the builder should have installed air bricks which should have countered the loss of ventilation /through draft (he didn't). It has been...

Hi, I am having what seems like endless trouble caused by the chimney and I am after some advice! In September, internal bricks in the chimney breast collapsed and fell down into the fireplace, bringing a barrage of soot with them and ruining most of our living room in the process. We had a...