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I have a problem with water ingress in my chimney. I have a woodturning stove and a stainless steel liner in the flue. The house is a bungalow built in 1953 but the chimney has been re-built at some point. The stack is on the edge of the house and does not come through the roof so it is very high -about 8 feet and only 2 bricks wide x 7 bricks long. There is no lead tray. A builder has told me i need the stack taken down and rebuilt with a lead tray . I would like to know if fitting a tray will make the stack weaker and wonder if that was why there isn't one. Is there any other way I can waterproof the stack without re-building it?
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How would you finish the render on these chimneys where the lead trays are. I can see the point of the folded lead but it doesnt exactly leave it easy or neat to render to. Could the fold be trimmed off and the lead meshed and rendered over? Advice welcome