Chimney stack removal

[Beansbaked]

We’ve had a couple of builders and a structural engineer look at our chimney that is leaning slightly. One side has a few cracks and it’s been suggested that instead of relaying the top few bricks and repointing it’s better to remove the whole thing to below the roof.

I’m wondering if I would need planning permission for this? I’m confirming with the structural engineer that we don’t need his input but I’m wondering if removing the chimney stack would cause any issues with the bit I’ve circled in red on my photo. It looks quite important. Please excuse my questions if they are silly but I have no idea how to go about this. Also with it being, I think it’s called corbelled?, does that make it any more difficult to do?

 

[blup]

I assume the corbelling is to help tie in the inner face of the chimney breast, as it doesn’t appear to be a load bearing part of the roof. Rooves can lean quite a lot before becoming unsafe and it looks in good condition. Did your strucchie insist it was dangerous?

 

[Beansbaked]

I assume the corbelling is to help tie in the inner face of the chimney breast, as it doesn’t appear to be a load bearing part of the roof. Rooves can lean quite a lot before becoming unsafe and it looks in good condition. Did your strucchie insist it was dangerous?

Hi thanks for replying. He didn’t seem bothered in the slightest. He didn’t really look at the chimney from the front and I didn’t show him the photos of the cracks as I as too busy over reacting and pointing out every other little fault in my house. I’m waiting for a call back from him so I can ask if he will have a look at the photos and give me his opinion. He said they could check to see how much it’s leaning but when I mentioned I think it would be better to take it down instead of keep spending money on it (£1200 last year for the lead and top re cemented) he agreed. Hubby spoke to him a few days later and he said he had seen much worse, including our neighbours so if theirs falls we need to worry. That didn’t help my anxiety at all

 

[Mottie]

I removed the chimney from our ground floor up to the first floor landing and the chimney from the roof down to the first floor ceiling, fitted new tiles to the roof to cover the hole and just left the middle bit. It’s been there nearly 30 years now so you just removing yours to below the roof line should be no problem. Don’t light any fires though!

 

[Beansbaked]

I removed the chimney from our ground floor up to the first floor landing and the chimney from the roof down to the first floor ceiling, fitted new tiles to the roof to cover the hole and just left the middle bit. It’s been there nearly 30 years now so you just removing yours to below the roof line should be no problem. Don’t light any fires though!

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Looks very nice, I love the colour! I’ve no interest in a fire. I spent years as a child worried ours would set the house a light and thankfully have a lovely new boiler.

Was yours corbelled into the wall also? I’m worried about the bricks at the top of the roof the ridge beam sits on. Will that be disturbed and cause issues?