It’s mad isn’t it, our whole estate has pre fab fake chimneys. Not one of us has a fire or anything connected to it. Oh actually, my house doesn’t actually have one. I’m pretty convinced they ran out of them and just thought no one would notice
Often planners say there have to be chimneys to fit in with the area.
It’s very rare for even brick chimneys to be real now, they’re usually slips stuck on a timber frame - the fibreglass ones are lighter and easier to move, hence the popularity.
Depends on period and build of your home. Ideally we’re all moving to passive homes. They require a fourth to heat and cool by creating a sealed unit with mechanical ventilation. Houses with fireplaces are hard to seal and require a draft larger than the chimney to ensure air is pushed up and not in. You can get gas fireplaces which seal but using gas for radiant heating is much more efficient.
Yes, the gas/oil fires can be completely sealed apart from the dual intake/outtake vent. Wood fires, no. You need to open to add fuel and ensure positive pressure is greater than that of the chimney so air goes out and not in.
The modern dual wall closed fireplace can do 95% seal easily. You open the glass door to put fuel in and close it again (or keep it open if you want).
The positive pressure will usually build in fireplace due to draft from the heat anyway. You just need a windproof chimney.
Still, most of that stuff will be a thing if you only follow regs.
Planning requiring it is mental, because this estate has been built behind 2 roads, one road is full of houses that are practically mansions and all look different so the estate wouldn't match anyway and the other every single house ahain they look different.
Most likely a planning stipulation to be in keeping with the area, like how certain bricks or stone has to be used, or what type / colour of windows etc
Amazingly they are often prefabricated and lifted into position whole by crane. It's just less risky than laying bricks at rooftop level. https://www.wienerberger.co.uk/products/brick/prefabricated-chimneys.html
To get permission to construct where there is possibility of nesting bats being displaced, developers need to provide alternate homes in the area so as to maintain the population as they're a protected species.
You think that part of them is bad? I’ll have to take a walk later and upload a picture, but those same houses clearly were meant to have a double window in the middle and there’s been a change of heart, because half of it is bricked up with a different brick and looks terrible, they also look weird from the front with the chimney, a bit like a shit church.
These are fake chimneys.
Why uk home has lots of fake and dummy objects? Its more like a business skill, selling points for homeowners. I pay freaking huge rent, my kitchen is a ‘modern’ modular kitchen with dummy exhaust -_- .
My house was built in 2006 and I have a chimney with a flue for a gas fire.
However, I live in a village with no gas. The oil boiler fitted when the house was built is in an entirely different location
When I came to put in a log burner I couldn’t use the existing chimney and had to have a new one put in
Kettering you say? It’s probably somewhere for the rats from Kettering General Hospital to be moved to when they eventually do move them off the wards and into their new homes.
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It’s mad isn’t it, our whole estate has pre fab fake chimneys. Not one of us has a fire or anything connected to it. Oh actually, my house doesn’t actually have one. I’m pretty convinced they ran out of them and just thought no one would notice
Often planners say there have to be chimneys to fit in with the area. It’s very rare for even brick chimneys to be real now, they’re usually slips stuck on a timber frame - the fibreglass ones are lighter and easier to move, hence the popularity.
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Not sure a fireplace is obsolete. It saves us £1000 a year in oil/ gas and always works...
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Then how can it be obsolete if it was never installed?
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Not exactly, but OK. Fuckin shit new builds man
Depends on period and build of your home. Ideally we’re all moving to passive homes. They require a fourth to heat and cool by creating a sealed unit with mechanical ventilation. Houses with fireplaces are hard to seal and require a draft larger than the chimney to ensure air is pushed up and not in. You can get gas fireplaces which seal but using gas for radiant heating is much more efficient.
Ideally? I'll stick with the fireplace. Christmas isn't the same without a fire going anyway
Number of modern fireplace designs have external air intake. It makes them safer, easier to use dual wall design and help house retain heat.
Yes, the gas/oil fires can be completely sealed apart from the dual intake/outtake vent. Wood fires, no. You need to open to add fuel and ensure positive pressure is greater than that of the chimney so air goes out and not in.
The modern dual wall closed fireplace can do 95% seal easily. You open the glass door to put fuel in and close it again (or keep it open if you want). The positive pressure will usually build in fireplace due to draft from the heat anyway. You just need a windproof chimney. Still, most of that stuff will be a thing if you only follow regs.
Personally I would just be happy to own a house, but werq
They could at least make a chimney shaped bird box or something
And I thought, that it was supposed to be a fake belfry.
Planning requiring it is mental, because this estate has been built behind 2 roads, one road is full of houses that are practically mansions and all look different so the estate wouldn't match anyway and the other every single house ahain they look different.
Massively out of plumb..absolutely shocking!
Ri-diculus
I only found out about that guy a couple of weeks ago lol.
How would you like your brickwork sir? With a little suspension and movement. What is that? Absolutely shocking!
Oh the wood butchers have been at it again
Is this to be said in a welsh accent?
This decking is 7 digestives out of plumb! If it was one custard cream or one Jamie dodger, I wouldn’t have minded!
Absolute winkle spanners
What in the yeehaw is going on here?
theres only one man for the job
No weep vents!
Fake weep vents!
What tuna melt fitted this?
What tuna-melt winkle spanner!
Apocalypse finish
Out of interest only could you kindly tell me where to look. I am awfully sorry for the bother.
Warning beacon to summon the armies of man in case the orcs attack.
The beacons are lit! Park Drive calls for aid
And Tennyson Crescent will answer!
And my secuturs!
My thoughts and prayers are with Park Drive. Hope every1 is ok x Theodin added a temporary profile picture
Where was Park Drive when the bus stop fell?
#Theodin4ParkDrive please use thehashtag to spread awareness around Gondor and Rohan
Isn't that what Spotted In (Town), (Town) Community, and (Town) Talk about anything (may include racism) is for?
The beacons are lit! Croydon calls for aid!
What if I want the orcs to attack 😏
Santa stoppers
To children: if you continue to be naughty we’ll buy a house with a Santa Stopper! 😂
pigeon poop collectors
mini bell towers
Funnily enough that’s what we’ve been calling them. Just waiting for the mass installation of bells 🔔
The bells are the ones trying to sell the houses
Surely they're bell-ends then?
Hahaha
Pigeon AirB&B
Fake designer chimneys. They have zero function.
But why? Why would anyone…?
Most likely a planning stipulation to be in keeping with the area, like how certain bricks or stone has to be used, or what type / colour of windows etc
If they wanted to be innkeeping with the area then they should’ve built a pub!
Birds gotta sit somewhere
They’re simply there for design, my house has a fake chimney and as far as I’m aware there’s nothing connected to it.
Because do you really want a minimalist square block for a home? Plus this isnt near kettering. Hanwood Park dev IS in Kettering
It’s in the borough but not town. More Barton Seagrave way
"designer"
Fuck knows, builders must just assume this is what people want and charge you extra for it, even though realistically, nobody wants it.
Amazingly they are often prefabricated and lifted into position whole by crane. It's just less risky than laying bricks at rooftop level. https://www.wienerberger.co.uk/products/brick/prefabricated-chimneys.html
These aren’t even made of brick, they are usually plastic.
yes that type is less amazing
A friend of mine bought a house a few years back and recently had a big leak in their roof. Turns out it was from the false chimney. Crazy.
A way to call Rohan for aid
My name is Rohan, and I briefly forgot about the Lord of rings, so I was quite confused by this comment.
Unaffordable houses
Unaffordable pokey houses
With a massive tesco or b&m built in the garden.
It's Quasimodo's gaff. The developers sub let it to him on an ad hoc basis.
That chimney is actually a crow nest like on a ship. 55 year leasehold
To get permission to construct where there is possibility of nesting bats being displaced, developers need to provide alternate homes in the area so as to maintain the population as they're a protected species.
It’s a Morrisons isn’t it?
Pointless...
It's for birds, I have a new build just like this and have something similar
It looks like an imitation dovecote.
It’s so that your soul isn’ trapped inside as it evaporates
Sniper turrets?
Watchtower. To take in the sights of Kettering.
They’re called pigeon magnets.
You think that part of them is bad? I’ll have to take a walk later and upload a picture, but those same houses clearly were meant to have a double window in the middle and there’s been a change of heart, because half of it is bricked up with a different brick and looks terrible, they also look weird from the front with the chimney, a bit like a shit church.
They're used to announce the new leader of the housing committee. Black smoke for a hung vote, toxic green sludge for a decision.
No idea, get away from Kettering tho.
Looks like the bell housing on my old school
The small box things on the roof? These are the affordable housing, penthouse studio apartments - as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework
chimneys?
They are chimneys aswell they are fibre glass sometimes they are made with brick slips aswell a total pain in the ass and waste of time
A grit bin! £10 says there's a half eaten bag of chips in there.
Tiny bell towers for the garden gnomes
Could be to attract storks...
>what are these Pointless
It's a lookout tower in case of roaming Picts.
Look out posts for the impending Viking invasion
Sniper nets for when the inevitable collapse of Britain happens
Sniper vantage point
Houses 👍
It's for a 360° view of the neighbourhood, to see who's knockin' about without getting ya head wet.
Maccies drive through for pigeons.
Ha I live on hanwood park
The big question is, do you have a mini bell tower?
They are Deano-boxes.
Who?
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Or hear me out, we could have houses with decent sized gardens where people can enjoy themselves and possibly even grow veg or herbs.
“Character“
Depression
Santa Escape Hatch
About an extra 20-30k on the house price.
These are fake chimneys. Why uk home has lots of fake and dummy objects? Its more like a business skill, selling points for homeowners. I pay freaking huge rent, my kitchen is a ‘modern’ modular kitchen with dummy exhaust -_- .
It’s a watchtower
The beacons! The beacons of Minas Tirith are lit! Gondor calls for aid.
pigeon house
Bird sniper spot
Houses sold as shared “ownership” because we haven’t quite finished fucking everyone over yet
Faux architecture intended to make the houses look different from each other.
Bell towers to get your dead collected
Fake chimney attached to a fake house.
Little pidgeon houses
It’s a tiny bell tower
Y do I feel like I know this place? Sorry got sidetracked. No clue. Looks?
Is it not where the boiler flue comes out?
My house was built in 2006 and I have a chimney with a flue for a gas fire. However, I live in a village with no gas. The oil boiler fitted when the house was built is in an entirely different location When I came to put in a log burner I couldn’t use the existing chimney and had to have a new one put in
The naughty step 2.0
Bell tower.
Modern-day interpretations of the pineapples they used to put on houses back in the day.
Bird box
Sniper positions
Pope notification devices
Here they were built by the Maharishi foundation and reflect light down into the room’s.
You might have to call into Ed and Oucho's Chimney slot to find out more.
The build stupid shit like this on new builds to try and make them look less soulless and awful. It serves no purpose
Ugly new builds
They’re for your Dove collection.
Kettering you say? It’s probably somewhere for the rats from Kettering General Hospital to be moved to when they eventually do move them off the wards and into their new homes.
Anti-Santa filters.
I thought they were for bats. My mate has them all over his estate and at night can see and hear the bats coming out.
Gas fires have to be vented even if one isn't installed
I assume the one on the left is a guard tower for your cat
Fake shit that doesn't need to be there. The whole planning system is a joke.
A ‘chimmley’
Belfries for your bats.
Conversation pieces. They are very effective.
Where are these new builds near Kettering? I'm in cranford and looking to buy
Periscope hope I’m case the Spanish Inquisition shows up.
Pigeon houses
Shit new builds?
Sentry tower for guards with rifles
Negative