Chimney repairs and rebuilds in Spalding

The chimney takes more weather than any other part of a house, and it usually shows first in the mortar joints and the lead around the base. We repoint, repair and rebuild chimneys across Spalding, and where a stack is past saving, or simply not wanted any more, we take it down and make good the roof where it stood.

Old stacks on old streets

The Victorian terraces near the town centre and the Georgian buildings along the River Welland carry some of the oldest chimneys in Spalding, and a stack that age often needs repointing long before it needs rebuilding. We will tell you honestly which yours needs, after we have been up, looked properly and photographed it so you can see the condition for yourself.

Rebuilds and take-downs

Where the brickwork is too far gone, rebuilding is the right answer: one customer had a chimney taken down and rebuilt, and another had theirs repaired with new lead work all round it. And if a redundant stack is doing nothing except letting water into the house, taking it down altogether is often the tidiest fix. We remove it and make good the tiles so the roof reads as if it was never there.

The lead around the stack

A sound chimney can still leak where it meets the roof. We renew soakers, step flashing, aprons and back gutters around stacks, the same lead details we fitted new on our photographed re-roof, because the junction between brickwork and tiles is where chimney trouble so often begins.

Planned, priced and guaranteed

Quotes are free and in writing, and the price quoted is the price paid. Before we start you are told when the scaffolding and materials will arrive, which matters on a tight terraced street in Spalding where space for a scaffold needs thinking about. Chimney work 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.