North Walsham's older terraced and Victorian semi-detached housing puts plenty of ageing chimney stacks above the roofline — and when the pointing fails, water finds its way in fast.
The town centre streets around Vicar Street and Grammar School Road are lined with late-Victorian and Edwardian properties, most of which retain their original chimney stacks. Years of Norfolk weather — driving easterly rain, hard frosts and the occasional coastal gust — erodes lime mortar joints and spalls the softer brick, leaving stacks that look sound from the pavement but are letting water into the roof space and down into bedroom ceilings.
We rebuild North Walsham chimneys from the lead flashing line upwards or in full where the stack has deteriorated beyond repointing alone, replacing spalled bricks, re-bedding pots and finishing the flaunching properly so rain sheds clear of the stack. As a Cromer-based team working across the Broadland and North Norfolk area daily, we can usually get a survey booked within the week — call us to arrange a free chimney inspection.
No obligation · We usually respond within 2 hours
Storm damage, active leak, damaged ridge — we aim to be on-site within 24 hours.
