St Ives has a strong run of period properties along the Ouse valley — and the damp air off the river does no favours to an ageing chimney stack that nobody's using.
From the older cottages near the historic bridge and town centre to the 1930s semis out towards Needingworth Road, St Ives has a wide range of chimney stacks that were built for solid-fuel heating now long since replaced. Left standing unused, these stacks deteriorate steadily — the mortar erodes, lead flashings lift, and water finds its way into the roof space or top-floor ceilings. In a riverside town with reliably wet winters, that deterioration happens faster than in drier parts of the county.
Our team works from scaffold so the job is done safely and the surrounding roof covering is disturbed as little as possible. Once the stack is down, we make good with matching materials and flash the area correctly. Chimney take-downs in St Ives typically take one to two days depending on the stack height and roof type. Ring us for a no-obligation site visit.
No obligation · We usually respond within 2 hours
Storm damage, active leak, damaged ridge — we aim to be on-site within 24 hours.
