Mountcharles, Co. Donegal

Chimney repair and repointing in Mountcharles, Co. Donegal

Repointing, flaunching, cowls and flashing around a chimney stack. Post your task free and professionals working in Mountcharles reply with their own price. You choose, and pay them directly.

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County Donegal: 32.6% of households here are in dwellings built before 1981.

Chimney repair and repointing near Mountcharles

Chimney repair and repointing: what the job involves

Repairing the chimney stack above the roof: repointing or rebuilding loose brickwork and render, re-flaunching the pots, replacing lead flashing, and fitting cowls or capping a chimney no longer used. A chimney is the most exposed part of an Irish roof and a common source of leaks.

How long it takes: Usually a day or two of work, plus the scaffold time; rebuilding the stack or a wet spell for lime mortar to cure adds days.

The full guide to chimney repair and repointing — the steps, what is included, the Irish rules, paperwork and questions to ask.

What chimney repair and repointing in Mountcharles costs, and why

What jobs on Talqero came to

Not enough comparable jobs yet to publish a range here. Talqero shows a price range only once at least five comparable jobs, agreed prices or offers exist — a range from fewer would describe a handful of jobs, not the market. Post your job and compare the offers you get.

What affects the price

Access: scaffolding to reach the stack, especially on a two-storey house or a shared stack
Repointing compared with rebuilding part or all of the stack
Lead flashing and back gutter replacement
Number of pots, caps and cowls
A shared stack on a semi-detached house, which needs the neighbour’s agreement
VAT: building work on a home is charged at the reduced 13.5% rate by a VAT-registered roofer, unless materials are more than two-thirds of the price (Revenue’s two-thirds rule)
VAT: building work on a home is charged at the reduced rate of 13.5% by a VAT-registered business — unless the materials come to more than two-thirds of the price, when Revenue’s two-thirds rule applies the goods rate to the whole job. Ask whether a quote includes VAT.

County Donegal: what the figures say

32.6% of households in County Donegal live in homes built before 1981 — below the national figure of 40.7%, and the 22nd highest share of the 26 counties.
Roofs on houses of that age were usually laid on bitumen felt rather than a breathable membrane and many are on their original covering, so one repair often turns up others — ask for photographs.
Central Statistics Office, 2022

What to ask before you choose

Will you send photographs of what you find and what you fixed?
Is scaffolding included, and for how long?
What guarantee is there on the work and on the materials?
Do you carry public liability insurance?
Is VAT included?

What the work usually involves

Replacing slipped or broken slates and tiles
Flat roof repairs and replacement
Gutters, fascia and soffit
Chimney flashing and roof windows

What to put in your task

Where the water comes in, and when — every rain or only in wind
The type of roof: slate, tile or flat
Photos from the ground, if you can take them safely
Whether there is access at the side and back

County Donegal in figures

Active construction enterprises: 3,164; Central Statistics Office, 2023
Homes built before 1981: 32.6%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Homes heated by natural gas: 1.1%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Homes heated by oil: 67.2%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Households: 61,575; Central Statistics Office, 2022

Construction as a whole. The CSO does not publish enterprise counts per trade at county level, so this figure is not a count of any one trade.

Chimney repair and repointing · Mountcharles

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