My chimmney has been damaged

[danieldwilliam]

I learn in a telephone conversation with My Lovely Wife that the chimney stack of our block of flats has been damaged in the recent gales. Our upstairs neighbours have been collecting quotes for emergency repairs and longer term work.

I’d hoped we’d escaped significant damage.

I was, in fact, a little surprised that we had. When we bought the flat about five years ago the survey reported that the roof was not in great condition and the vendor reduced the price by a few thousand pounds as a result.

I have to phone our insurance company tonight to inform them of the situation.

This is less than awesome.

Comments

[andrewducker]

My sympathy. Repair costs are the worst bit about owning rather than renting.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

It’s less than ideal – I think our insurance will almost certainly cover the repairs and they’ll be split between the nine flats in the blocks but it’s a royal pain in the backside.

On the positive side if the roof itself is damaged repairs to that might be rolled up in the same insurance claim.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

The chimney over my bedroom slopes rather alarmingly and I spent quite a lot of time during the gales praying that it wouldn't topple over and come through my ceiling :( The one over my lounge got hit by lightning last year and it was very scary indeed!

Hello BTW, I've friended you because you posted on Andrew's friending frenzy and we always seem to be agreeing in his comments section :)

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Scary biscuits all round.

One of my colleagues had his chimmney fall into his drying green. Big noise, big cloud of dust.

I'm ashamed to say I've no idea what my chimmney looks like. I keep meaning to go up onto the roof to have a look (and see if there might be a suitable sight for a beehive) but keep not quite getting round to it.

I liked the friending frenzy. I'm glad I've found at least one more friend from it.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Not knowing what your chimney looks like isn't so bad when you're not on the top floor. My guttering needs fixing too but we don't have a factor and nearly all the other flats in the building are rented so I keep putting off trying to organise anything :( I'm never buying a tenement flat again!

The thunder after the lightning strike was the loudest thing I've ever heard and I've stood next to cannon being fired at a reenactment event.