Hi All,
My chimney is in a bad way.
I'm just about to do the roof on this side of the house, which will included replacing all the lead...but before that I want to sort the chimney out. The house will be getting rendered including the chimney, but I think I need to remove/replace the blown bricks and the haunching.
I was going to remove the entire top layer of brick and replace with blue engineering bricks and 4:1 mix - sorry if this is a stupid question, but do the bricks go all the way across under the haunching? If not, how else is the central part of the haunching supported in place?
Repoint the rest of bricks with 5:1 mix.
Regarding the haunching, I see that 3:1 mix is recommended. Could I add some tone to that to make it grey?
Finally so you think the chimney pot will be salvageable once I start removing the existing haunching, or should I just order a new one and be prepared to replace?
Thanks in advance
Andy
ps - I'm going to remove all the old aerials, metalwork, etc
My chimney is in a bad way.
I'm just about to do the roof on this side of the house, which will included replacing all the lead...but before that I want to sort the chimney out. The house will be getting rendered including the chimney, but I think I need to remove/replace the blown bricks and the haunching.
I was going to remove the entire top layer of brick and replace with blue engineering bricks and 4:1 mix - sorry if this is a stupid question, but do the bricks go all the way across under the haunching? If not, how else is the central part of the haunching supported in place?
Repoint the rest of bricks with 5:1 mix.
Regarding the haunching, I see that 3:1 mix is recommended. Could I add some tone to that to make it grey?
Finally so you think the chimney pot will be salvageable once I start removing the existing haunching, or should I just order a new one and be prepared to replace?
Thanks in advance
Andy
ps - I'm going to remove all the old aerials, metalwork, etc