Repointing, rebuilds, new flaunching, cowls, pots and new lead where it counts. Chimneys are the most exposed thing on the house and the first thing to give up, and a large share of the damp we get called to look at starts at one.
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Weathered joints raked out and repointed in a mix that suits the brick, not a hard modern mortar that traps water in a soft Victorian stock.
Where the brickwork is spalled or leaning, the stack is taken down to sound work and rebuilt, reusing the original bricks wherever they are worth reusing.
The mortar cap around the pots cracks long before the stack does. Renewing it is a small job that stops water going straight down the inside of the chimney.
Chased into the joints, wedged and pointed, dressed over the covering. Done in lead, not in cement and not in flashband.
Rain caps, bird guards and vented caps on unused flues, so a redundant chimney stops filling with water and starts drying out.
Stacks taken down to below the roofline and the roof made good properly where a chimney is no longer wanted or worth keeping.
Very often, yes. Cracked flaunching, open joints in the stack and a failed flashing all put water into the chimney where it runs down and shows up on the breast, sometimes a floor below. It is worth having looked at before anyone starts replastering.
Small flashing work can sometimes be done off a properly secured roof ladder and tower. Anything involving rebuilding, repointing or working on the stack itself needs scaffold, and we will not pretend otherwise to win the job.
It depends on the size of the stack, the access and how much of it is sound. Quotes are free and given in writing after we have actually looked at it, which is the only honest way to price a chimney.
Not automatically. A capped, vented chimney is cheaper to maintain than a rebuild and it keeps the look of the house, which matters on period property around the Weald. If it is genuinely beyond saving we will say so.
Yes, on both live and disused flues. Jackdaws nesting in a flue is a very common local problem and a guard is a small job that saves a much bigger one.
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