Chimney Repairs in Wigan
Chimney stacks repointed, rebuilt and flashed in, so the damp patches on the chimney breast stop coming back. A few miles west of Hindley Green.
Chimney Repairs for Homes in Wigan
Chimneys across Wigan come in every shape, from the plain stacks on the Newtown and Whelley terraces to the tall, decorative ones on the older Swinley villas. The faults, though, are much the same wherever you go: the mortar joints wash out over the years, the flaunching that beds the pots cracks, and the lead flashing around the base perishes. Any one of those lets water into the stack, and it usually turns up as a damp patch on a bedroom wall or chimney breast long before you would think to look at the roof.
We cover Wigan and the surrounding area: Scholes, Whelley, Swinley, Newtown, Marsh Green and beyond (WN1, WN3).
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What’s Included
We get up and check all three, then repoint the stack, renew the flaunching and cut in fresh lead so the whole detail sheds water again. On the taller villa stacks that work is done at height off the scaffold. Where a chimney is no longer in use, taking it down below the roofline and tiling over the gap saves you maintaining it for good. Either way the job stays with us, brickwork, lead and the roof around it, on one written quote for the lot.
- 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 Wigan, FAQs
It is nearly always the stack itself, with pointing washed out, cracked flaunching or perished lead flashing letting water in to track down inside. We get up and check each of those and renew whichever has failed, rather than working off a guess from the ground.
Yes. The taller, more decorative stacks on the older houses up on Swinley need someone who will repoint and re-lead them at height without cutting corners. We handle the brickwork, the flaunching and the flashing together so the whole thing is watertight again.
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.