Selling Home, sagging chimney due to insufficient truss support

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by Electrician4you

You would need a farmer to reinforce the weak area.

Looks like someone needs to review their replies before posting them.

[Ed Ferris]

Think about removing the fake chimney and just bringing the four-inch stainless steel flue up through the roof. That will get rid of the problem forever.

[Phildred]

[quote=MikeJaquish;55461549]

Originally Posted by Phildred

It is up to you and your buyer to arrive at an agreeable fix.
This could be complicated and expensive. It also could be fairly straightforward and simple. The precise framing details and access to the attic matter.
I can imagine it easy, and also very difficult.

Access is super easy...like ideal I would say. I can pretty much walk to it lol. So that is good. I've got a friend who has a structural engineer that works in his building so he is going to show him the pics and see how much it would run us to have him come out to evaluate it and we will go from there I guess.

Thank you for your replies.

[Phildred]

Originally Posted by Ed Ferris

Think about removing the fake chimney and just bringing the four-inch stainless steel flue up through the roof. That will get rid of the problem forever.

I honestly think that would be more expensive than what will need to be done (guessing though).

[Phildred]

Your thought of just jacking it up is not really a an easy option. You would be jacking against the ceiling framing which does not have a huge amount of strength, so you would likely just push the ceiling down and break the bottom chords of the trusses.

You need a structural engineer.[/quote]

Yeah...I figured I was wishful thinking lol

[gemstone1]

[quote=Phildred;55461030]

Originally Posted by gemstone1

Are you sure the leaning chimney is not due to a foundation/footing problem ? A standard brick weighs about 4.5 lbs....multiply that by the approximate number of bricks, and that's a lot of weight per square foot...


This is not a brick chimney running down the side of the house, it's just a framed one on top of the roof.

Sorry for the wrong assumption.

Regards
Gemstone1