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I'd ring round some roofing folk and / or arial fitters then. They will be more comfortable working at height and will know what can realistically be done. They might cost more than £150, but they may not need to saddle you with scaffolding and all the shit that brings.
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Good shout on the aerial man front, got a guy popping round in a bit to have a look.
edit: the previous guy said he'd broken both wrists before falling from a roof so I can see why he's be jittery about climbing up a chimney stack!
Aerial man can do it from a ladder, will tackle the re-pointing at a later date/hopefully never
Polygon
Builder, general 'handyman', which seemed about right for what should have been a relatively small job, probably too small for proper roofers. We were going to remove our aerial and fix my neighbour's aerial cable back down for £150, but now looking at 3x that for the scaffold on top, which is why I was thinking about pointing repairs whilst it's up.
Not much else needs doing, don't want a log burner. Loft conversion and a new roof would be nice but that's a bit more than £450.