Royston sits on the chalk ridge where Hertfordshire meets Cambridgeshire, and the town's substantial stock of Edwardian and interwar housing comes with chimney stacks that are increasingly redundant and increasingly expensive to maintain.
The housing along Baldock Road, Melbourn Street and the roads off London Road is largely Edwardian or 1920s–30s semi-detached — solid, well-built houses that were heated by open fires in every room. Most of those fireplaces are now blocked or removed, but the stacks remain, pointing and flaunching crumbling, lead flashings working loose with every freeze-thaw cycle. Royston's exposed position on the chalk uplands means it catches wind and rain from most directions, and an unattended stack is one winter away from causing a real problem.
A chimney take-down removes the liability permanently. We erect scaffold, take the stack down to just below roof level, relay the surrounding tiles or slates, and install a correctly weatherproofed finish. There's nothing left to repoint, re-flash, or worry about. If your Royston home has a stack you haven't used in years, call us for a straightforward site assessment.
No obligation · We usually respond within 2 hours
Storm damage, active leak, damaged ridge — we aim to be on-site within 24 hours.
