"Greg" wrote in message


I need some thoughts on removing a chimney breast in one of the bedrooms. I
live in a semi-detached victorian house and the chimney breast in one of the
bedrooms is "in the way". It is on the party wall and has been removed in
the room below (not checked to see how it is supported - just pray there are
no big gusts of wind to find out the hard way...) From the bedroom it goes
into the attic and then out (nothing radical there then). The plan would be
to remove the breast in the bedroom, but not remove it from the attic etc.

If you take a massive slab of weight bearing structure out from the
base, a hell of a lot of the top of it is going to want to fall all over
you sooner or later.

How are you going to get adequate answers from a do it yourself group
for a major architectural engineering problem like that? Sure, someone
may know the text book answers but it is a highly specialised job.


If you are not prepared to take the whole thing out from the top down,
then get expert structural advice.


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