Chimney Repairs in Lowton
Chimney stacks repointed, rebuilt and flashed in, so the damp patches on the chimney breast stop coming back. A few miles south of Hindley Green.
Chimney Repairs for Homes in Lowton
The chimneys on the Lowton semis and detached houses take the usual weathering: the flaunching that beds the pots cracks, the mortar joints wash out and the lead flashing where the stack meets the tiles perishes, and any of those will let water track down inside to show as a damp patch on a chimney breast. We renew the flaunching, repoint the brickwork and cut in fresh lead so the whole detail sheds water again.
We cover Lowton and the surrounding area: Lowton Common, Lane Head, Slag Lane, Newton Road, Kenyon and beyond (WA3).
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What’s Included
Plenty of the family homes here no longer use their chimney since going over to gas, and a redundant stack that is left open just soaks up rain and feeds damp into the house. Where that is the case we can fit a capped and ventilated pot to keep it dry while it breathes, or take the stack down below the roofline and tile over so it stops being a job you think about. Either way the brickwork, the lead and the tiling around it get done together by us, with one 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 Lowton, FAQs
It is usually cracked flaunching, washed-out pointing or perished lead flashing letting water into the stack, which then tracks down inside. We check all three on your chimney and put right whichever has gone rather than guessing at it.
A redundant chimney on a Lowton house is best either capped with a ventilated pot to keep it dry, or taken down below the roofline and tiled over. We will look at the state of the stack and tell you which is the sensible spend for your house.
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.