Responsibility for chimney stack/ terraced hous.

[DriftingDreamer]

Hello,
Before dig out deeds sure one of you knows general answer to this.
Live in a terrace house. 2 x chimneys. One attached to fire place and one not. Both chimney stacks do come over onto our roof. Both in need of repair [having lots of horrible house issues at the moment!].
Have I shared responsibility for both re repair and costs? That seems to be what is being assumed....
Feel like moving. Probably cheaper than all that is going wrong with house!
Thanks....

If they serve your house (or could be unblocked so to serve your house) and they are in your roof they are yours.

Sometimes chimneys in terraced houses are in pairs, so there would be one flue for your house and one for your neighbour in the same stack. Is that the situation here?

My knowledge of chimneys is limited! I shall go outside in daylight and look at them both. We have obvious fire place areas on one side and nothing obvious on other. I guess that does not mean there isn't a flue in both?
Thanks for trying to help.

I guess the loft would give a clue as well....
Not going up there now as had a glass of wine!

Think chimney over both roofs. Thinking about it, strangely her fire place other side of that chimney as well [other side of house I mean]. Bloody decorative chimney?!
House round 90 years old so suppose may have been more fireplaces in the past.

I had the chimney swept a while back adn he pointed out that there was a bricked up chimney in the kitchen - hadn't realised at all! It was much clearer where everything was after he'd explained it - would recommend doing that to make it clearer

Thanks. Looking at house and wondering now about where fireplaces might have been.
Whole house causing problems at the moment. Shall take some Kalms and try not to dream about our decaying money pit....

That thanks is a genuine thanks by the way! Just tired...
Night, night all...

I presumed we had a joint chimney stack until we started a loft conversion.

As it turned out neighbours had removed their chimmney breast and stack from floor to stack level 20 odd years ago. (Very badly as we had to have our stack taken down as it was leaning on the roof for support)!

So talk to the neighbours just in case.

Not being clear. Have 2 chimneys. One on one neighbours side, the other the neighbour on our other side. Chimneys on party wall lines [I suppose] and touch on all 3 roofs. Sort of wondered if rules like party fences! Sounds like not...

It depends if the chimney is touching party wall or not. We could remove our chimmney stack as it wasn't attached to party wall it it wa you may need a party wall agreement.

Seems my neighbour and I jointly responsible.
Concrete from top of chimney in both our guttering.
Getting quotes re how to repair/ make safe.
Another cost. .

There is always something to pay for when you own a house.

Yup.
Chimney just icing on cake re problems to pay for this year.
Miss renting sometimes....

Get a chimney sweep in to look it over and sort it out for you. Similar Victorian terrace here and the bloke could tell me where all the flues were and exactly what connected to what - it was really useful. Then swept about 10 foot of sticks out of it dropped in there by jackdaws!

Doh sorry have posted on this twice!! I was told about 5 or 600 pounds for scaffolding nd then more for the bits on top of chimney stack and for doing the stack itself. Next door just had theirs done and it's well worth it