Chimney Repairs in Ince-in-Makerfield
Chimney stacks repointed, rebuilt and flashed in, so the damp patches on the chimney breast stop coming back. A couple of miles west, toward Wigan.
Chimney Repairs for Homes in Ince-in-Makerfield
On the Ince terraces the chimney tends to sit astride the party wall, one stack straddling the boundary and carrying flues for both houses at once. A century of weather leaves its mark: the pointing softens and drops out, the flaunching around the pots crazes and lifts, and the lead at the base works loose, and any of that puts a damp stain on the chimney breast inside. We rake out and repoint the brickwork, re-bed the pots in fresh flaunching and dress new lead in around the base so the stack turns the weather again.
We cover Ince-in-Makerfield and the surrounding area: Lower Ince, Higher Ince, Spring View, Belle Green Lane, Manchester Road and beyond (WN2, WN3).
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What’s Included
Because a party-wall stack belongs to both homes, it is worth having the whole thing looked at rather than patched from one side, and we will tell you clearly what the brickwork needs. Where a stack is no longer used by either house we can take it down below the roofline and weather over the gap so it stops being something to maintain. The access is usually off the rear alley, and the brickwork, the lead and the slates around it all come from us on a single written quote.
- Stacks repointed with the right mortar mix
- Full and partial chimney rebuilds to match the house
- Lead flashing and soakers renewed, dressed into the joints
- Flaunching recast, pots reset, cowls and caps fitted
- Disused chimneys removed and tiled over
- Leaks at the chimney traced and stopped for good
How It Works
Chimney Repairs in Ince-in-Makerfield, FAQs
A stack that straddles the party wall is normally down to both houses it serves, not one of you. We can survey the whole stack rather than just your side, tell you what the brickwork needs and put it in writing so you and your neighbour can sort the share between you.
Damp on the breast usually means water is getting into the stack through open joints, a cracked top or worn flashing, then running down the flue inside. On a party-wall stack it can even track across from the neighbour’s side, so we look at the whole stack, not just your half.
From the ground, look for gaps and shadows in the mortar joints, white staining, or a stack that reads crooked against the sky. Inside, damp patches on the chimney breast are the big tell. Binoculars from the garden will tell you a lot, and we will confirm it up close from a ladder or scaffold.
It can be. Stacks lean when the mortar on the weather side wears faster, and a badly leaning stack in wind is a genuine risk to whatever is below. If yours has a visible lean, get it looked at soon. Making it safe is quick; rebuilding it is planned work, not an emergency, if caught early.
Usually the lead. Flashing that has split, lifted or been bodged with mastic lets water straight in at the joint between stack and roof. Cracked flaunching on top does the same. Both are standard fixes for us, and we check all three, the pointing, the flaunching and the lead, whenever we look at a leaking chimney.