Hello all.
We are currently renovating our house and have a chimney stack that has been removed from the ground and first floors. This stack is shared with our neighbour (their stack is in place on the ground and first floors). Complicating matters slightly are the facts that:
- Above the first floor there is no party wall between our property and our neighbour's.
- The stack only protrudes out of the wall by around 70-80mm.
- There are four flues (two our, two our neighbour's) arranged linearly leaving very little brick into which to place gallows brackets.
We have taken advice from a structural engineer, and he recommended the use of gallows brackets but the chimney depth was mis-measured.
Any advice on how to support the chimney - or whether it even needs supporting - would be much appreciated.
We are currently renovating our house and have a chimney stack that has been removed from the ground and first floors. This stack is shared with our neighbour (their stack is in place on the ground and first floors). Complicating matters slightly are the facts that:
- Above the first floor there is no party wall between our property and our neighbour's.
- The stack only protrudes out of the wall by around 70-80mm.
- There are four flues (two our, two our neighbour's) arranged linearly leaving very little brick into which to place gallows brackets.
We have taken advice from a structural engineer, and he recommended the use of gallows brackets but the chimney depth was mis-measured.
Any advice on how to support the chimney - or whether it even needs supporting - would be much appreciated.