Old Brick Chimney Breast

However chimney removal costs vary from one chimney to the next for a number of reasons.

Old brick chimney breast.

Sep 3 2015 creating your personal chimney breast. Can you remove a chimney breast with a shared party wall. Removing an entire chimney stack and breast costs 2 000 4 000 on average. Please note that i am not a professional and this video should be treated a.

The chimney breast is both the most visible and vital portions of a chimney. There is no need to remove the fireback from the fireplace although if a back boiler is fitted this should be removed once the plumbing has been isolated and disconnected. In a terraced or semi detached house the chimney stack could be sited on a shared party wall. Either the chimney breast in the roof space must be removed or it must be provided with additional support that the chimney breast on the lower floor would originally have given.

With 4 rooms of this house having chimney breasts i got lots of opportunity to try different ways of decorating them so in this post i want to share 10 chimney breast ideas to help get you inspired for ways to decorate yours. Unfortunately the breast has a habit of protruding into all the rooms it passes through. This brick wall encases the flu and other functional parts providing extra insulation and major structural support. After an old fire surround and hearth has been removed the hole in the chimney breast can be bricked in to tidy up the wall.

There are many aspects to the chimney removal process that will affect how much your project will cost. They were untouched and primed for us to experiment on with different chimney breast and alcove ideas. Here s how we removed the chimney breast for my parents latest bungalow project.