Chimney Repairs St Ives

A chimney is the most exposed masonry on any house, and once the mortar goes the water goes straight down into the bedrooms below. In St Ives that matters more than most places: the TR26 area is dominated by tightly packed granite cottages with slate roofs, and Atlantic gales, near-constant salt spray and driving horizontal rain make Cornish roofs some of the hardest worked in Britain. Our roofers know the steep slate roofs of the harbour cottages and the streets around them, so we arrive with the right materials and the right access plan first time.

Old cottage chimneys around St Ives are often built of soft brick or stone; we repair them with compatible mortars and cap unused flues to stop damp and nesting birds.

We rake out and repoint in a suitable mortar mix, renew the flaunching, re-bed pots and dress fresh code-4 lead into the brick courses so the stack sheds water cleanly. Every chimney repairs job we carry out in St Ives is quoted in writing after a free inspection — you see photographs of what is actually wrong before you spend a penny. Most stacks are repointed and re-flashed in one to two days, with scaffold or tower access arranged as part of the quote.

Homeowners in TR26 choose us because we answer the phone, turn up when we say and tidy up after ourselves. Our family-run, fully insured team also covers Carbis Bay, Lelant, Halsetown and the rest of Cornwall for chimney repairs and all general roofing work. St Ives sits right in the middle of our regular rounds, with Penzance (about 7 miles away), Camborne (about 8 miles away) and Redruth (about 11 miles away) all close by, so chimney repairs visits in TR26 fit easily into our schedule.