Many traditional units are made from brick or cement blocks.
Removing chimney stack above roof.
The stack must be properly supported and the gallows bracket illustrated below is a common method.
The method shown is a slow del.
Typically the contractor you hire will handle this but if you re doing the work yourself be sure to check with your local zoning laws to determine if you need a permit.
Supply and install new roof timbers and felt to cover the hole.
Stack removal averages 1 000 to 1 600.
More often than not you ll need to obtain a permit before removing a chimney just like with any demolition or construction work.
To remove a chimney breast at ground or first floor you must first support the chimney adequately.
Gallows brackets should only be used if.
Erect scaffold or access tower up to the chimney.
Leaks and structural damage are the most common reasons for wanting to remove a chimney stack and in such cases you will have the option of simply covering over the rest of an unused chimney when you extend the roof over the gap left by the stack.
The stack is not completely vertical i e.
Remove the chimney stack to just below the roof tiles and lower the bricks to ground level.
However chimney removal costs vary from one chimney to the next for a number of reasons.
The neighbours chimney breast on the other side of the party wall has not been removed or partly removed.
A gathered flue to a central stack.
It is the portion which protrudes from the roof ending in a cap.
The type of chimney removal method you choose full or partial.
Here s what s involved with a chimney stack removal.
Removing an internal chimney breast however is a mess job.
It will create lots of dust and debris so the room should be cleared and sealed off from the rest of the property as much as possible.
Tile over the hole with new roof tiles to.
The stack is the portion of the chimney structure which extends above the roof.
This video shows the chimney removal of a small single skin chimney stack below roof level and then tiled over to make good.
Removing an entire chimney stack and breast costs 2 000 4 000 on average.
