Chimney Repairs & Repointing in Wokingham
Roof repairs, re-roofs and flat roof specialists across Wokingham. Free surveys, fixed written quotes, tidy workmanship.
Wokingham Roofing Company repairs chimneys across Wokingham — repointing eroded mortar joints, renewing cracked flaunching, replacing failed lead flashing and taking down stacks that no longer earn their keep. The chimney is the most exposed brickwork on the house: it takes weather from every direction, gets soaked and frozen more than any wall, and most Wokingham stacks are now 90 to 140 years old.
Chimney faults are also the great impersonators — a huge share of 'roof leaks' around a chimney breast are actually failed pointing or flashing on the stack itself.
Stack repairs we carry out
Repointing
Eroded joints raked out to sound depth and repointed. On Victorian brickwork that means a lime-rich mortar that moves with the stack — hard cement pointing on soft old brick causes spalling and makes things worse.
Flaunching renewal
The mortar crown holding the pots cracks with age, letting water straight into the stack's core. We cut back and re-form it, re-bedding or capping pots while we're there.
Lead flashing
Step flashing, aprons, soakers and back gutters renewed in code 4 lead — code 5 for wider back gutters — dressed into raked-out joints and pointed, per BS EN 12588 lead specifications.
Stack reduction and removal
Redundant stacks taken down below the roofline, the opening tiled through to match, and the roof left with one less thing to maintain.
Chimney repair prices in Wokingham
| Work | Guide price | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Repoint a full stack | £500 – £1,300 | Scaffold or tower usually needed |
| Flaunching renewal and pot re-bed | £200 – £550 | Often combined with repointing |
| Full lead flashing renewal around stack | £400 – £950 | Code 4 lead, stepped and dressed |
| Chimney capping / bird guard | £120 – £300 | Per pot |
| Stack removal below roofline | £1,300 – £2,800 | Includes tiling through and waste |
2026 guide figures including access equipment where stated. Free survey with photos of the stack, then a fixed written quote.
Why chimneys fail before roofs do
A chimney stack is a masonry tower standing in the wind with no coping, no cavity and no damp course, saturated by every storm and frozen dozens of times a winter. Mortar joints fail decades before the bricks do, and once open joints let water into the core, frost does the demolition from the inside. Caught early, repointing and flaunching are modest jobs; left, the top courses loosen and the repair becomes a partial rebuild at several times the cost.
If your stack hasn't been looked at in twenty years, the cheapest thing you can do is have it photographed from roof level. Ours come back with every survey — and if the leadwork below the stack is the real culprit, the roof repair gets priced instead.
Leak near the chimney breast?
How we trace water entry before pricing anything.
Frequently asked questions
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