Chimney repairs and rebuilds in Sleaford

Your chimney takes more weather than any other part of the house. It stands above the ridge line with no shelter, catching wind, rain and frost from every side, so the mortar and lead up there fail years before the rest of the roof. Around Sleaford, with its stone and brick older buildings and its newer estates, there are plenty of stacks quietly getting on in years.

Repointing and repairs

Frost gets into soft mortar joints and blows them apart a little more each winter. Repointing catches the stack before loose brick and cement start coming down the roof. We rake out the failed joints and repoint properly, and because you cannot see your own chimney from the ground, we photograph its condition and show you before we talk about any work.

Rebuilds and take-downs

Some stacks are past pointing. We take chimneys down and rebuild them, and where a redundant stack is doing nothing but letting water in, we remove it altogether and make good the roof. One customer had a chimney taken down and rebuilt from the shoulders up; another had theirs repaired with complete new lead work around the base. Both got the same thing first: an honest opinion on whether the stack needed rebuilding at all.

The lead around the stack

Half the "chimney leaks" we look at are really lead failures where the stack meets the tiles. We renew soakers, step flashing, aprons and back gutters, the same details we fitted around the chimney on our photographed re-roof project. Get the lead right and a sound stack stays dry for a very long time.

Quoting chimney work in Sleaford

We cover Sleaford and the surrounding NG34 area for all of it. The visit and the quote are free, the price comes in writing, and the price quoted is the price paid. Chimney work in Sleaford is guaranteed for five or ten years depending on the work like everything else we do, with public liability and employer's liability insurance on every job.