How To Patch Up A Roof After Removing Brink Chimney

Work your way down the chimney removing bricks as you go.

How to patch up a roof after removing brink chimney.

How to patch standing seam metal roof after chimney removal. You may need to use pry bars to get the nails up. Our new 40 year old house had an old metal chimney that was once connected to an wood stove in the living room. Repair cracks to prevent chimney fires.

Step 1 out with the old shingles after you have removed the chimney pipe remove any damaged shingles around the area. Maintain 3 points of contact with the ladder as you climb so you re less likely to slip and fall. The method shown is a slow del. If a leak is difficult to find enlist a helper and go up on the roof with a garden hose.

This video shows the chimney removal of a small single skin chimney stack below roof level and then tiled over to make good. Start low soaking the area just above where the leak appears in the house. Once i got the chimney below the roofline i would seal up the top of the chimney with masonry tiles and i would seal up the fireplaces with cement. When you get to the top of your ladder slowly get onto your roof and approach your chimney so you can start working.

For example soak the downhill side of a chimney first then each side then the top on both sides. Note that removing any portion of a chimney breast will require structural reinforcements for that floor and the one above as well as possible reinforcement of the outer wall. Isolate areas when you run the hose. The pipe stub that protruded through the cei.

Once you get to roofline level you can stop and patch the roof leaving the chimney breast and firebox fireplace remaining or you could continue removing the entire chimney and the firebox too. Plaster adhesive dabs is not an acceptable fixing method and mechanical fixing will be needed. This will allow for a good seal once the patch is completed and will also make the patch indistinguishable from the rest of the roof. It is the portion which protrudes from the roof ending in a cap.

Place a ladder against the side of your home closest to the chimney and carefully climb to your roof. When people think of a chimney this is the part they tend to picture. The easiest way to achieve 30 minutes fire resistance to steelwork in domestic properties is to use two layers of 9 5mm plasterboard with a skim coat or a single layer of 15mm gypsum fireline or similar fire rated plasterboard.