Over a beer or two in in the (partial) sun in Portugal this morning SWMBO and I were discussing future house decorating plans i our early 70s Taylor Wimpey house.
One room this year is likely to be the lounge. It has a chimney breast which rather narrows it and if the price and collateral damage was manageable I'd quite like to get rid of it.
I'm not back for 6 weeks to start inviting builders to quote so in the meantime I just wondered what people here think it might involve and, roughly, cost.
It's a shared chimney with next door but I think he's already taken out his downstairs side at least.
The chimney went years ago when we both had solar panels installed.
I still have the upstairs breast and the bit n the loft. I'd probably sooner neither of these went but it depend how it might affect the job.
My own guesstimate if it were just the downstairs chimney is about 5 days work and less than £500 "parts". So given the inflated prices we have in our area I'd put the total around £3k tops, including all the making good.
I have no idea how the costs might rise if the upper breast and loft bits had to be removed.
Any thoughts?
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