Is chimney flashing usually like this? Just wondering.

[Gone West]

I've only taken down one chimney stack before and that was conventional double brick with a square hole and flashing let into the brickwork about 40mm. I've now been taking down a 2m high stack on this bungalow. It's built centrally above the 600mm thick stone wall with the hole going down through the wall. I'm pretty sure the stack was rebuilt in the 1970s and it now has a ceramic liner which has been concreted around tying it to the surrounding brickwork. The flashing has gone under the bricks and has been dressed up around the liner. The concrete had stuck really well to the lead flashing and I had to tear the lead to get the concrete off. Any idea if this is normal?

 

 

 

[George]

Not typically historically where it's essentially just a stack of bricks with an internal parge coat. But modern chimney construction do have trays at the roof line and at the top of the chimney. 

 

Wouldn't worry about it. They just went belt and braces to make it watertight. 

[Gone West]

38 minutes ago, George said:

Wouldn't worry about it. They just went belt and braces to make it watertight. 

Thanks for the reply.