How to go about / how much will it cost- chimney breast removal

[Zara87]

We live in a 1930s 4 bed semi. The house we are attached to has recently been fully renovated and the fireplace in the living room/ master bedrooms have been bricked up there and replaced with modern electric fire downstairs.
We are in the process of doing our house up, it currently has an old fashioned gas fire in which we hate. The chimney breast goes straight up into our master, meaning that the built in wardrobes have very little space due to a third of the doors just concealing the chimney breast IYSWIM.
I also hate the fact that our living room furniture is so restricted by the breast and just want it out. Dh thinks it's a huge and very expensive job.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I know that you will need to get an RSJ to support the chimney stack. Our next door neighbour removed the breasts in both the lounge and dining room, while we still have ours, so needed to keep the chimney so our fires could be used.

Yes, you'll need an RSJ and I think, a Party Wall Agreement/Building regs approval if the chimney stack is shared? Perhaps ask a structural engineer to come out and go through the process.

Very expensive. We have the same in our 1930s house. Chimney goes right up through the middle, and is basically ‘holding the house up’. We have a wardrobe door hiding a chimney breast. Can’t remember the exact figure we were quoted but £10k rings a bell.

Hmm 10k is about what i was thinking too. We are remortgaging in September anyway to get a lot of the work done so I keep thinking if we just do this it's something that I won't have to worry about again!

Maybe a daft question but if next door wanted to one day put a fire back in, could they do that if we have removed our breast? It's a shared stack on the roof

Thanks