Owning your own home

How many stacks/etc?

£50 here (not London) for one log burner.

Good point, just the one.

Structural engineers, are they?

Just a test to see if smoke escapes in to the ceiling or breaches in to another flue.

No, no, Slate is cool. Looks great. Just looks weird on my street - and probably only to me because I'm that kind of asshat - where everything would have been clay.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/arctic-products-5g-smoke-pellets-10-pack/64647

I reckon a good sweep would throw it in with the clean.

Does anyone have experience of getting buildings insurance for a home that's unoccupied while renovations are done. Any recommendations for insurance suppliers?

quoted £680 (before material) to fit a cowl on our roof. Seems a bit steep to me... anyone had similar done?

our roof. Seems a bit steep to me...

Has to be to drain water

I'll see myself out

How are they proposing to access, ladders, scaffolding or cherry picker?

just ladders - they've been up on the roof recently repairing flashing etc using ladders with no issue

@gillies that seems like mad money, you're in Glasgow right? Check out Luke Agnew at Agnew Chimney Engineering. I think he's Anniesland. He's great but always busy.

he also put a pot and cowl up on one of our chimneys and I think he charged about £150 ish as it was included in other work. I can dig the quote out of needed.

£85 per cowl supplied and fitted on my chimneys in Bristol .

They are taking the piss

Assuming we are talking about the same thing? Climb up roof, pop tin hat on chimney, secure with jubilee clip.

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Defo a piss take then

This has reminded me I need to get a roofer in, we have a damp issue in one of our chimney brests.

Had a chimney sweep round to inspect all of them and discovered the cause - the stack has been removed and a slab concreted over the top - with no ventilation - a running theme of the house we bought is blocked up or no ventilation.

Had a chimney sweep round to inspect all of them and discovered the cause - the stack has been removed and a slab concreted over the top - with no ventilation - a running theme of the house we bought is blocked up or no ventilation.

We have the same issue (lots of damp on 1st floor breast at ceiling line) following stack removal. I don't know what the situation is at the top as it's flush with the roof membrane. I'm thinking of just taking a few bricks out of the breast in the loft to allow some more ventilation.

Is this mad? A lot of the bricks are so old and soft due to years previous of the owner(s) ignoring a leak that I could probably just dig them out with a spoon.

I'm thinking of just taking a few bricks out of the breast in the loft to allow some more ventilation.

I was considering this but was unsure if that would just give us a damp issue in the roof space, ours is exacerbated by the cooker extraction having been fitted into the same breast at ground level.

The cooker extracts into the chimney, which is sealed at the top? Or have I misread that?

Nope that's exactly what's going on

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Le sigh

Jesus christ.
Looks nice though, so it's got that going for it.

The cooker extracts into the chimney, which is sealed at the top?

Fucking brilliant

And based on your picture, that's not an external wall, is it?

Nope. Probably the worst issue I've uncovered from the 'developer'.

Other stuff has been easy fixes, fabric of the house is good, it's just stupid decisions like this inside that I've come across.

Don't suppose it's a recirculating one?