Gateshead covers more ground than people expect. Dense Victorian terracing at the town end, substantial villas around Low Fell and Whickham, and older property out towards Ryton and Crawcrook. Each needs a different answer.
Jobs from the town end out to Ryton and Crawcrook. All handled in house from survey to certificate.
Thirty years of working here means we usually know what a property needs before we arrive. The survey confirms it.
The town end of Gateshead is largely Victorian terracing, tight streets and shared stacks. Shared stacks matter more than people realise, because what your neighbour has done with their flue can affect how yours draws. It is worth a proper survey rather than an assumption.
Low Fell and Whickham have a lot of larger interwar and Edwardian property with generous chimney breasts. These are usually straightforward lining jobs, but the chambers are often big enough to do something more interesting with the finish, which is where a brick slip or tiled chamber earns its money.
Out towards Ryton, Crawcrook and Rowlands Gill the property gets older and more spread out. Stone cottages with substantial breasts, and barn conversions and extensions with no stack at all. That is twin wall territory, and the route needs designing rather than guessing.
The same services wherever you are, all carried out by our own HETAS registered engineers with no subcontractors involved.
One workshop, one team, and one place you can come and see the stoves before you decide anything.
Unit 8J, Victoria Road Industrial Estate, Hebburn NE31 1UB
Free parking on site. Bring the width and depth of your chimney breast and a rough idea of the room size, and we can tell you there and then what will suit it.
The things people in Gateshead ask us most often before booking a survey.
Not necessarily, but it is worth surveying properly. On shared stacks what happens in the neighbouring flue can affect how yours draws, and an unlined flue alongside a lined one behaves differently. We check it rather than assuming.
Yes, and we do a fair amount of it. Converted property usually has no usable stack, so it is a twin wall insulated system. On a conversion the route matters a great deal for how it looks as well as how it performs, so we design it around the building.
It gives you options. A generous chamber means you can do something more interesting with the finish, whether that is a brick slip chamber or a tiled one, rather than just a plain background. It usually still needs lining, though.
Yes. Birtley, Blaydon, Dunston, Crawcrook and Rowlands Gill are all regular work, along with the rest of the borough. We are about twenty minutes away in Hebburn.
Sometimes, particularly on taller or awkward roofs. If access needs anything beyond a standard ladder we tell you at the survey and it goes in the written price, so it is never a surprise afterwards.
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Tell us a little about the room and the chimney and we will give you a fixed price in writing. We can survey in person, or remotely from photos and Google Maps. No charge and no obligation.
