Advice on chimney

[markus2025]

Hi guys so ive chipped back this chimney breast on this house and its not what i was expecting..

it looks like some work has been carried out in the past to brick work maybe to reduce the dept of the breast

why is the face so ruff looking and not laid in a stretcher bond fashion or has the face been lost with the past changes and this is the infill area im seeing ?

 

[Koolpc]

How old is the house?

I would guess that the original opening was much bigger....hence the odd brickwork.

 

[markus2025]

Around 100 year old i belive it use to have a cast range fitted , you can see where the front has been bricked up but all that brick work above is orginal as you can see the black coal dust mortar what was used in these houses but dont get what its all rammed in all ways thats what makes me think its been filled from above and this was not the orginal face the orginal face and been nocked down perhaps

 

[Koolpc]

Well, if it were mine i would rebuild the top if it is unsecure or you are planning to open up the lower part.

 

[ToolboxTalks]

That rough look and mixed-up brick pattern likely mean this is an infill. When someone reduces the depth of a chimney breast, they often just patch the hole with whatever brick bits fit. That area was never meant to be exposed, which is why it doesn't have the clean stretcher bond you'd expect on the original face.

 

[noseall]

Hi guys so ive chipped back this chimney breast on this house and its not what i was expecting..

it looks like some work has been carried out in the past to brick work maybe to reduce the dept of the breast

why is the face so ruff looking and not laid in a stretcher bond fashion or has the face been lost with the past changes and this is the infill area im seeing ?

I'm wondering whether the top half of the chimney was reduced at some point (reduced from the left) but then filled in and squared off? The curious run of header high up look like a soot door access or summat?

How are the floor joists trimmed out?

 

[ree]

OP,
What is your purpose - what do you intend to do?
What remains of the chimney breast higher up from the first floor above to the chimney stack on the roof?
Is the back wall behind the c/breast a gable wall or a party wall?
FWIW: it would be unusual for soot doors to be located high on an internal chimney breast.

 

[markus2025]

Hi guys thanks for the replies


yeah it seems to have like a offset chimney stack all the stack is still there and full chimney throat

like you say seems like the face has been reduced and what im now viewing as the face was once the center infill area

the plan going forward would be to open up the chimeny wider brick or brick slip it

and then have a wood burner in the insert

the breast likey is not gonna be on show but im not so keen on just covering all that ruff face up with plaster

also the stack sits on a wide concrete lintel that bridges from the internal wall over to the top of the breast and the brickwork down that side is all ruff also... i would presume to take the breast infill down and rebuild it i would need to acrow prop the lintel

the linte

 

[markus2025]

 

[markus2025]

I belive something like this was in when the house was built