Possible column removal in Kitchen

[kwikfit]

hi,

soon to re-fit a kitchen when we exchange. there is a brick column in an inconvenient position and want to remove it, it has a vent in the side so maybe it is a chimney of some sort but not sure if it is structural as well, see photo.
it is in on the party wall of a terraced house and is not on the line of an extension.
if it is a vent and can be removed, how would the base of vent be sealed at high level ?

anyone had any similar experience ?

thanks

Kevin

 

[noseall]

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• kwikfit
• 3 Sep 2011
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Have you removed the vent and had a look?

Do your neighbours have something similar?

First impressions say it looks like a supporting pillar for a steel beam or two.

I take it that the pillar is solid masonry as opposed to say studwork that would be mebbe framing something.

 

[Blagard]

I have a feeling that is a gas pipe right next to it. Which may have been feeding an applicance now removed. As Noseall has advised remove the vent and find out what it leads to. Perhaps venting a now unused flue. Also what is in line with it outside at roof level

 

[geraint]

I have a feeling that is a gas pipe right next to it. Which may have been feeding an applicance now removed. As Noseall has advised remove the vent and find out what it leads to. Perhaps venting a now unused flue. Also what is in line with it outside at roof level

So what gives you that feeling....

 

[^woody^]

So what gives you that feeling....

Even to my untrained eye I can see a capped gas pipe, and an eyelet for a cooker safety chain. Bit of a give-away, so I am feeling it too

It's an odd place for a cooker in the front room though

 

[Blagard]

Even to my untrained eye I can see a capped gas pipe, and an eyelet for a cooker safety chain. Bit of a give-away, so I am feeling it too

LOL well perhaps I should have put my specs on. I was not 100% certain looking at the picture. the partial paint on the connection seemed odd and I was even wondering if someone had used the last bit of a cooker leg to cap off the gas where something else had been, that is, if it was what I thought it was.

I am aware of a time when you could install a flue using a flue block that would result in pretty much what you see on the picture. Equally it could be a brick pier per Noseall suggestion, although it defeats me why a pier should have a vent on it.

If it is what I think it may be. the OP can probably rip it out.

 

[geraint]

So what gives you that feeling....

Even to my untrained eye I can see a capped gas pipe, and an eyelet for a cooker safety chain. Bit of a give-away, so I am feeling it too

It's an odd place for a cooker in the front room though

It looks to me as if the pipe is not capped but going through the wall....
And a very strange pipe run...

 

[foxhole]

Possible old boiler flue, when my house was extended it left the old boiler flue[which was external] in the new lounge.Is there a vent at roof level?

 

[darrington]

8)

 

[kwikfit]

Possible old boiler flue, when my house was extended it left the old boiler flue[which was external] in the new lounge.Is there a vent at roof level?

finally got my partner moved in and checked out a few things.
yes it's an old boiler flue vent and the shared chimney stack to roof is still in place as is the next doors neighbours (terraced) and their flue in the kitchen has been removed, having established this i want to take ours out.

first of all is it safe to do so without doing any sort of support work and what would need to done at high level to presumably support the brickwork above. There is a full size chimney breast above in the bathroom. does this make a difference ?
also any idea of cost and is it a DIY job (i don't want too much !!! LOL)

cheers

kevin