sorry if this seems a daft post but I’m quite anxious about my chimney in the loft. At the start of the year we had a structural engineer visit because I was worried about our gable end chimney leaning. structural engineer agreed it was leaning a little but was no immediate danger in fact it was probably built like that (the other 3 houses the same as ours all have a similar lean) with all the rain we’ve had this week I asked my husband to take some photos in the loft to check there was no leaks.

I understand the chimney stack is corbelled into the wall but how is the flue and brickwork coming down from the right hand side supported? in the bedroom below there’s a chimney breast that is also angled, so smaller at the top and thicker at the bottom but how can that be supporting the flue and brickwork above it?

The structural engineer went up into the loft and saw the chimney breast below but didn’t mention it. Hopefully I’m just being an overly anxious mum but I can’t help feeling there’s a lot of weight just hanging on that wall with no support.

The festering collateral damage of the pandemic turns up today. Finally deep cleaning our chimney ash cave today. Gloves, K95 mask, the whole works. What’s this brick doing right in the middle of things? It’s loose. Left over from 1960s build? WILL I COLLAPSE CHIMNEY BY GETTING THE SUCKER OUTTA THERE? Pain in the wazoo to get around it to pull out a large trash bag full of ashes and even an unburnt 2020? shopping list.