Pinnacle Projects
Flaunching Repairs
Lead Flashing
Pot and Cowel replacement
Lime or Cement pointing
Chimney Removals and Roof over
At Pinnacle Fireplaces we have many years experience working with chimneys. We can rebuild them and repair them, we have seen them in every conceivable condition. One inspection by us will be enough for us to quickly diagnose exactly what your chimney needs.
We can provide access to your chimney via our own tower scaffolding, our professional scaffold contractor or by cherry picker.
HIGH ACCESS MAINTENANCE SOLUTIONS
With our own in house cherry picker we can solve your high access maintenance issues. From a roof repair to a stove install we can handle the access requirements for most jobs. We also have our own tower scaffold and our own chimney scaffold.
In the rare event that we can't provide our own access solutions we can arrange scaffold or a larger cherry picker contractor.
TRADITIONAL LIME MORTAR POINTING
If your building was built prior to the second world war it is highly likely that it was built in lime mortar. This mortar was the mortar of choice for thousands of years until our modern cement became the dominant material in building.
But lime mortar is actually superior in many ways. It breaths, it can take movement and it protects against brick spalling by sacrificing itself rather than the brick. It soaks up water inside the brick into itself because it is very porous, unlike cement, which reduces the chances of frost damage in the winter. This is especially useful on chimneys.
Many historic buildings have had pointing repairs done in cement. This will eventually fail because the cement will seal moisture behind it in the lime bed joints. We can rectify this and replace it with lime mortar just as we have done with thousands upon thousands of linear metres of pointing on historic buildings across the East.
We use natural hydraulic lime 3.5 as advised by Conservation Officers.
