Chimney Breast Removal In Living Room

I want to remove a chimney breast in ground floor lounge as well as the flue and chimney stack.

Chimney breast removal in living room.

Chimney breast removal posted by rebecca on sun 24 feb 2019 09 31pm we are looking to remove our chimney breast throughout the house ie living room on ground floor and bedroom on first floor in a terrace house. What regulations are involved in complete removal of chimney breast stack. I live in a 1960 s converted. The removal of part or all of a chimney stack will require buildin.

Chimney breast removal is one of the most com. Want to remove chimney breast in sitting room no chimney breast in room above sitting room hi we are currently buying a house that has a. Typically a house with one to two levels that shares an external or party wall that is the thickness of one brick or approximately 225 mm probably has a front and a back wall less than 9 metres apart. External chimney stack removal can be done from outside the building and if done carefully need not disrupt any internal decoration.

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. Removing an internal chimney breast however is a mess job. One of the most important aspects of a chimney breast removal project is making sure the structure of the home is still intact after the chimney breast has been taken out. Special attention needs to be used where the chimney breast is on a party wall with a neighbouring property or where the chimney breast of an upper floor is going to be removed while leaving a working fire in the room below in the latter case partial removal is possible but a smaller chimney breast for the fire below must be left in place.