Chimney Repairs & Repointing in Loughborough

Chimney Repairs in Loughborough: what to know

Central heating retired most of Loughborough’s fireplaces decades ago, but the stacks are still up there taking frost and rain with no fire beneath them to dry them out. On the older terraced rows a single stack straddles the boundary between two houses, so one neighbour’s damp chimney breast is frequently both households’ problem. Repointing, re-flaunching around the pots and renewing the lead apron where brickwork meets slate account for most of the work. Where a stack is genuinely redundant — common enough on converted lets — dropping it below the roofline and tiling over ends the leak permanently.