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As I posted in the buildings section of the forum yesterday //www.diynot.com/forums/building/chimney-breast-removed-is-this-sufficient-to-hold-it.290279/ we are purchasing a house that has had one of the downstairs chimney breasts removed but without any known building regs. and with the breast above left in place.
Although there is no proof of when done, it is suspected by the current vendors to be somewhere between 15-30 years ago (well before they bought the house).
Now although we're still not sure whether it's safe or not, if it is and it can remain like that for 5 years while we save up, we'd eventually like to remove the breast that's above it (pictured in that above link). However if we did that, would we run into trouble with BR as the previous work hadn't had BR? i.e. would they be petty enough to make us put the original breast back and then remove both? I was kind of thinking not, but not sure of the rules. And I've been informed that they can't do anything after ten years (and that after two years they don't really show much interest) but as there is no proof as to when it was done, how could we prove it was over 10 years ago?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Although there is no proof of when done, it is suspected by the current vendors to be somewhere between 15-30 years ago (well before they bought the house).
Now although we're still not sure whether it's safe or not, if it is and it can remain like that for 5 years while we save up, we'd eventually like to remove the breast that's above it (pictured in that above link). However if we did that, would we run into trouble with BR as the previous work hadn't had BR? i.e. would they be petty enough to make us put the original breast back and then remove both? I was kind of thinking not, but not sure of the rules. And I've been informed that they can't do anything after ten years (and that after two years they don't really show much interest) but as there is no proof as to when it was done, how could we prove it was over 10 years ago?
Any help greatly appreciated.