Once a chimney breast has been removed you will need to make good the floor where the chimney breast once was.
Removing chimney breast ground floor flat.
I am looking to remove a load bearing wall and the chimney breast attached to it which is located in the centre of the house so.
I don t know all the ins and outs of the regulations but there definitely should be a supporting beam which could have been put into the ceiling so not visible depending on the structure of the house and there should have been building regs approval for the work so the council.
No only does this mean it is actually not as disruptive as you might have thought but it also avoids the need to alter the roof or external appearance and character of the building.
One of the most common internal alterations carried out is to remove an obsolete chimney breast at ground floor to create more floor space.
An internal chimney breast can be removed at ground and or first floor without having to remove the external stack.
Yes this is regularly done for clients is relatively straight forward.
However if your chimney extends below the floor and into the foundation you re looking at fixing floor framing and potentially some foundation work.
We would need to explore the flooring above the chimney to expose the joist giving access to calculate the dimensions of re enforced steel joist to sit within the ceiling floor void therefore removing the bulk head or inner beam visible within the ground floor space.
Can a chimney breast and the load bearing wall its attached to be removed at ground floor level only.
Building regulations apply to this work because it is a material alteration to the structure ensuring the remaining.
If you are removing it completely the roof will also need to be patched up.
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.
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.
When people think of a chimney this is the part they tend to picture.
However chimney removal costs vary from one chimney to the next for a number of.
Quite often the chimney is also removed at first floor level leaving just the roof void and external section of the chimney in place.
Note that removing any portion of a chimney breast will require structural reinforcements for that floor and the one above as well as possible reinforcement of the outer wall.
