To have only just noticed the death of the chimney!

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I was driving home and through an area full of new housing estates and I’ve only just noticed that there’s no chimneys. I don’t know why this has only hit me now as I live in a new build with no chimney 🤣🤣 but it really changes the skyline completely! Anyone else notice this?!

No electricity wouldn’t change the temp that much in my house, it’s so well insulated that it’s at a consistent good temperature. I have a gas camping stove in the shed for cooking in the case of an outage.

It’s very sad. Hate to see most new builds and the way they are being constructed.

We don’t have central heating upstairs so Dh lights the fire in our bedroom when he gets up at 7am. During cold spells our bedroom gets so cold and the fire makes a difference and it’s lovely getting dressed in the morning in front of a log fire.

but that’s life…times change and industry changes, construction materials change and so does construction. We can’t stay in the Victorian era forevermore…it’s not required. We have modern day heating systems now we don’t need fireplaces in every room.
same theory with cars they are bigger and more efficient now because times have changed! We need to move forward!

Our 25 year old house has a chimney. Purely cosmetic as there are no flues or fire places.
Wouldn’t call our street upmarket in any way though 😁

I tend to find new builds stifling, not pleasant at all. It must have just been the ones I have been in. Then again I am a bit obsessed with fresh air, and I’d take my old Victorian draughty house over an airtight box any day!

Ive come home and the firsgt thing I do is open the back doors in the kitchen and also in the conservatory so air blowing in from all angles. The windows are open all year round in any case, they're never shut.

No I love a chimney we have two, ones for the two fireplaces and one for the old boiler.

I hated our old house without one would of been such a pain to do a log burner as it would of had to come out the side of the house and up, that ruled the livingroom as it would of been in the small front garden basically on a window.

Same! It drives my DH a bit mad but it feels so much better having fresh air in the house.

We have a pretend chimney stack on our new build. In fact it wasn't until we had been here a year that I noticed there are five chimneys for four houses (small development of four semi-detached).!
It does look more symmetrical though 😊

Ive noticed a lot of new builds around here dont have chimneys. I think the roof looks odd without a chimney. I love an open fire in the winter.