The house we bought last year has a chimney (on a slate roof) which it turns out was repaired some time ago with useless cheap stuff... and is now sodden through the brickwork (damp patches on walls upstairs and downstairs) and letting water past the (plastic) flashing.
We've been advised to have the whole stack off, and a lead tray fitted and new lead flashing, and some repair work to a couple of roof timbers which are wet and rotten (tho not structually worrying appearantly). Which is fine - we'd rather get it sorted properly than take a punt just on new flashing. We've had a couple of quotes for about £1500 which seems fairly reasonable for the amount of work.... but my wife's had a chap round today who reckons it shouldn't cost more than about £600, and anyone who says more is trying it on.
As we haven't a clue, and are a bit nervous given the work was clearly done on the cheap before leading to current problems....
What do you folks reckon?
TIA
We've been advised to have the whole stack off, and a lead tray fitted and new lead flashing, and some repair work to a couple of roof timbers which are wet and rotten (tho not structually worrying appearantly). Which is fine - we'd rather get it sorted properly than take a punt just on new flashing. We've had a couple of quotes for about £1500 which seems fairly reasonable for the amount of work.... but my wife's had a chap round today who reckons it shouldn't cost more than about £600, and anyone who says more is trying it on.
As we haven't a clue, and are a bit nervous given the work was clearly done on the cheap before leading to current problems....
What do you folks reckon?
TIA
