Category: Liverpool
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Chimney Cowls and Pot Maintenance
While most homeowners focus on the hearth, the most critical part of your chimney system is often the part you can’t see without a ladder. As the leading chimney specialist near you in the Liverpool area, we often find that summer is the most effective time to address “terminal” issues—the pots, cowls, and guards that…
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Summer Structural Work: Liners, Repairs & Pointing
The Critical Window for Chimney Liner Installation and Repairs If your chimney requires more than just a sweep, the weather is your biggest ally or your worst enemy. For chimney repairs in Liverpool, the summer months provide the dry conditions necessary for mortar to cure and for safe roof access. If you have been searching…
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Test flight fail
We find lots of pigeons and birds trapped in chimneys when we are working on them. Unfortunately this one didn’t make a successful test flight, but we did put it in a box until it was settled and released it unscathed in a safe environment.
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Unblocking Chimneys in Aigburth
What a job! It took us full day to unblock and repair this chimney in Aigburth. We found the what a ‘rogue builder’ had left behind. We lowered this chimney stack and they had dumped all the bricks in the chimney. We unblocked the chimney, sealed it over and ventilated for air flow to flue.Customer…