Hi All,
First post for me, but long time reader of these forums. So I'm hopeful those of you who may know won't mind giving me their views.
The story, I'm renovating a 1950's 3 bed terrace house and have finally got to the kitchen. There is a flue in the kitchen which was capped when we moved in, which will take some valuable cupboard space in our new kitchen design and so we want to remove it. If you can see from the pictures, it essentially is a flue hanging there.
Now the detail, where you can see the brickwork is where there were 2 MDF boards used as a cheap cover - you can see expanding foam becuase it was used to fill what would have been the coal hatch through the wall. Every other coarse does tie in to the party wall, so it appears the flue supports itself. Which is probably why it hasn't collapsed when the previous owner took 6 courses off.
My query, do we think its safe currently? and is it going to hurt if i take down another 4 courses? I have my opinion, but the Mrs would rather we asked advice
Thank you in advance
First post for me, but long time reader of these forums. So I'm hopeful those of you who may know won't mind giving me their views.
The story, I'm renovating a 1950's 3 bed terrace house and have finally got to the kitchen. There is a flue in the kitchen which was capped when we moved in, which will take some valuable cupboard space in our new kitchen design and so we want to remove it. If you can see from the pictures, it essentially is a flue hanging there.
Now the detail, where you can see the brickwork is where there were 2 MDF boards used as a cheap cover - you can see expanding foam becuase it was used to fill what would have been the coal hatch through the wall. Every other coarse does tie in to the party wall, so it appears the flue supports itself. Which is probably why it hasn't collapsed when the previous owner took 6 courses off.
My query, do we think its safe currently? and is it going to hurt if i take down another 4 courses? I have my opinion, but the Mrs would rather we asked advice
Thank you in advance