Chimney & Fireplace

How to best vent your chimney breast........

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.13 PM

Hello I need some advice please - and possible work done to my chimneys. I have 3 chimneys in my house. None are in use from a fireplace point of view. They were all sealed up like in picture no. 1. 2 in the through-lounge on ground floor, and they run up to the 2 respective bedrooms upstairs. And 1 in my dining room and runs up to the 3rd and final bedroom upstairs. Last year I wall mounted my TV to my living room chimney and as you can see in pic 2 I have housed my SKY box etc in a compartment in the chimney, using battons and plasterboard. Anyway my question is around the vents - as I want to make sure my chimneys can "breathe" as they say.... I have none of these anywhere in the house http://www.screwfix.com/p/map-vent-gas-louvre-vent-white-76-x-229mm/4548d I have seen no discoulouring of the walls or anything but looking at pic 3 i.e. the top of my house you can see they have all been capped off differently I can't remember what work I had done about 10 years ago but I'm sure all were swept and capped off - but why they dont all have that cowl protection i don't know. Also there are 4 pots which is weird...... The only thing I can thing of is there is a very very small column in my kitchen - could this be another stack? weird as its only 30x30cm in the corner. but no hob or anything goes to it, i actually thing its for covering central heating pipes..... Please can you advise how i can best vent my chimneys. Kind regards PIC 1 Imagine a closed off chimney opening with plasterboard and skirting board at the front base as I cannot find the link to the pic. PIC 2 http://media.diynot.com/213000_212714_86006_77178076_thumb.jpg PIC 3 http://media.diynot.com/213000_212714_86185_69878631_thumb.jpg