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Please elaborate?Oh dear.
Please elaborate?Oh dear.
I have a 1860's terraced property. I had the chimney breast removed on my side, the flue is left alone, the gap boarded then plastered. So it's still there with no evidence inside the property of there ever having been a chimney. Except the loft where you can see the chimney supported with the gallows brackets we put in. We share a chimney with next door too.The flue is contained within the stone wall.
The chimney that served our property is viable on the other side of the loft.
Next door still have their chimney breasts.
Before your latest posts it appeared that the chimney breast had been removed in the rooms but left in the loft and on the roof - I have seen this done.
Are you saying that a couple of feet of your property and roof in fact belong to next door?
The chimney stacks for this chimney are still there. The chimney definitely never served our property, ever.I have a 1860's terraced property. I had the chimney breast removed on my side, the flue is left alone, the gap boarded then plastered. So it's still there with no evidence inside the property of there ever having been a chimney. Except the loft where you can see the chimney supported with the gallows brackets we put in. We share a chimney with next door too.
I am wondering if you had cowboys in at some stage before you bought the property and that the chimney wasn't supported. Causing the damage and cracks. The work should be signed off by the council, which would give you an idea about what work has been carried out but not everyone does this properly.
Yes, some people leave the entire chimney unsupported up in the loft. Anyway, you've no choice other than to get someone around to have a look and assess the damage, cause & costs.The chimney stacks for this chimney are still there. The chimney definitely never served our property, ever.
Sorry, I meant the chimney breasts are still there. They're contained in the wall. They're not inside our property. They serve next door.Yes, some people leave the entire chimney unsupported up in the loft. Anyway, you've no choice other than to get someone around to have a look and assess the damage, cause & costs.
Nothing was mentioned. It was only after we bought that we realised. There's no mention of the chimney or anything in any of the deeds ... we have previous owners deeds also dating right back to 1923 and we've looked through them all ourselves.i dont see this.
what was said when you bought your house or what would have been said to the neighbourswhen they bought ther house?
no surveyor, even a mortgage surveyor, is goin to swerve aa obvious lack of clear boundry lines in the deeds.
neither would a worthwile soliciter.
theyd probly call for a specialist boundry wall surveyor to step in an clear the legal issues prior to mortgagin either property.