Fordham sits between Newmarket and Ely, and its mix of Victorian cottages and older farmsteads means we regularly deal with chimney stacks here that have outlasted the fireplaces they once served.
The village has a settled, slightly rural character with a number of brick-and-pantile properties that are typical of this corner of Cambridgeshire. Redundant chimneys on these houses often show the same pattern: capping slabs that have cracked, flaunching that's crumbled away, and lead flashings that have worked loose — all of which lets water into the roof structure. A straightforward cap-and-cover won't fix that long term.
Taking the stack down below the roofline and making good with matching reclaimed pantiles or plain tiles is almost always the better investment. Chimney take-downs in Fordham typically take one to two days depending on stack height and roof access, and we include scaffold hire and all waste removal in our quotation.
No obligation · We usually respond within 2 hours
Storm damage, active leak, damaged ridge — we aim to be on-site within 24 hours.
