Chimney breast in kitchen, please help!

[MeAgainLondon]

Hi,
We have an angled chimney breast in the corner of our kitchen. We are extending and have moved the kitchen and have no idea how to work around this if we don't take the Chimney out. Does anyone else have this in their kitchen and what did you do please. Any ideas and pictures would be massively appreciated,
Thanks

Taking out chimneys is very expensive and messy.

you have to start from the top (the chimney pot on the roof) and work down thru the upstairs then down to the ground floor.

Is there a way you can incorporate your cooker in it, possibly by knocking out bricks to adult height, and making safe with a steel?

Not sure what you mean by start from the top and work down through the upstairs to the ground floor, in order to take a ground floor chimney out, could you explain?

It means you can’t take the bottom of the chimney out and leave the stack in place because eventually it will collapse and take out half of your house. You can put specialist steel joists into the attic though and then knock out from the first and ground floor leaving the stack in place. It also depends on whether it’s a shared chimney stack with a neighbour because then structural integrity needs assessing by a professional and party wall act needs adhering to.

I understand steel beams, their purpose and necessity. But why put a steel beam in the attic instead of just the room the chimney was removed from?

It might be the thing holding the whole house up. If you remove it, every joist, rafter and floorboard might be left with nothing.

I would suggest specialist advice before you go further.

Thanks everyone, we won't be able to remove the chimney and because it's in the corner and we share it with next door we can't put anything in it.
I was hoping someone else might have that problem in their kitchen and were able to make it work. So much easier in every other room just not great in a smallish kitchen😥

What ever you end up doing, I’m sure your home will look beautiful.

Good luck xxx

My current kitchen had a corner boarded up chimney breast. It was originally the dining room and the old kitchen was in an extension but we reinstated it. We had a corner cupboard custom built around the angle and it works really well.
The first photo shows the original corner wall (where the blue box is) - I did NOT paint the walls vomit green btw! The second shows the framework of the corner and the third shows the finished kitchen.
The corner cupboard, oven and fridge don’t go all the way back to the wall, the builders had to put a false wall up because of the angle of the corner wall.

Can you increase the size of the fireplace part of the chimney and support it and make it a decorative feature in the kitchen?
Would your kitchen be large enough to accommodate a small stove?

Diagram please!

Thanks @Soontobe60 this is really helpful! I feel a bit better now that we can have something nice. Your kitchen is lovely😀