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Chimney survey in Silver Street, Kent
Chimney surveys in Silver Street, backed by more than 20 years’ experience. Every survey ends with a written report and photos.
- Damp on a chimney breast inside
- Flashings pulling away from the stack
- Loose, cracked or missing pots
Chimney surveys for homes and businesses in Silver Street
A chimney survey is about the outside of the stack and the roof around it. It is not a flue inspection, a chimney sweep or a gas safety inspection. For the flue itself, you’ll need a sweep or, for gas appliances, a Gas Safe registered engineer. If something we see points to the flue, we will say so. We survey chimney pots and cowls, shared and party-wall stacks and chimney breasts, and people most frequently book us about unused flues sealed without airflow and bricks with flaking faces.
Some older homes in villages like Silver Street are listed or in a conservation area. If yours is, re-roofing in different materials may need consent, so the council is the place to check. Knowing the roof’s condition helps you plan ahead with that in mind. Where a building is listed, matching the existing roof materials is often expected.
The Standard Survey adds moisture detection, a structural check and a follow-up consultation. The Premium Survey goes further, with thermal imaging, drone inspection where it applies, structural analysis and an in-person consultation.
- Place
- Silver Street (ME9)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Cost
- From £150 inc. VAT
- Your report
- Emailed report with photos and recommendations
- Appointments
- Weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays
- Insured
- PI and public liability insurance
- Call
- 07833 053749
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
What a chimney survey looks like in Silver Street
The coast is about 5 miles or less from Silver Street, where sea air brings more salt and stronger wind than inland. Metal fixings and flashings corrode faster in salt air, while gales work at loose ridges, slates and tiles. Handmade clay tiles, including Kent peg tiles hung on pegs through two holes, are typical of older Kent buildings. You will also find oast houses and timber-framed Wealden hall houses among the county’s older buildings. On roofs like these, good slates or tiles can outlast the nails, battens, lead and mortar around them.
Anyone responsible for a site like Bredgar Church of England Primary School will know that a written record of a large roof helps plan work for the holidays rather than in term time. Landlords with a home close to Sittingbourne station may find that a dated record of the roof is useful when planning maintenance across a let.
Silver Street is about 3 miles south-west of Sittingbourne, in Kent. We carry out chimney surveys in Silver Street for houses, flats, blocks and commercial buildings, with a written report and photographs every time. Across Kent, we cover Silver Street and the places around it. You can also see our page for Maidstone.
All of ME9 is within our area for chimney surveys, from the main roads to the quietest streets. If you’re just outside Silver Street, we cover Bredgar (1 mile east), Oad Street (1 mile north-west), South Green (2 miles west), Danaway (2 miles north-west) and Chestnut Street (2 miles north). We also work in nearby towns like Maidstone (8 miles south-west), Ashford (14 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (3 miles north-east), Whitstable (15 miles east), Faversham (8 miles east) and Minster (9 miles north-east).
Around Silver Street
Locally, jobs take us to homes and businesses close to Westlands School and Cromers Wood. The closest station to Silver Street is Sittingbourne station, roughly 2.8 miles north-east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Sittingbourne Heritage Museum (2.9 miles north-east) and Bayford Court (3.1 miles north-east). Not far away are Detling Hill.
Tips from our surveys
Getting the most from a chimney survey starts before we arrive and carries on afterwards. Some tips:
- Leave close inspection to people with safe access
- Book a sweep for flues that are in use
- Keep the report to compare against at the next survey
- Look at the chimneys with binoculars after a storm
If the stack is shared, you can pass the report to your neighbour. It shows what we found and where from the viewpoints we used.
Check redundant flues are capped with ventilation. Ventilation helps keep the stack dry.
What this survey can’t tell you
To be straight with you, there are limits to any roof survey:
- Whether a gas appliance or its flue is safe
- Flue inspections or sweeping
- Hidden sides of a shared stack
If in doubt, ring 07833 053749 or send us an email and we’ll point you to the right survey before you book. What a survey covers and doesn’t.
Roofs we survey in Silver Street
- Shared and party-wall stacks
- Lead flashings
- Flaunching
- Chimney pots and cowls
- Chimney breasts
- Brick chimney stacks
Common questions in Silver Street
Do roofs near the sea, like those around Silver Street, take more of a battering?
Places near the sea get more wind and more salt in the air than inland, and both are hard on roofs. Salt corrodes metal fixings and flashings, and wind lifts loose slates, tiles and ridge pieces.
Is Silver Street within the area you cover?
Yes, we do. We survey roofs across London and South East England, and smaller places are part of that. Longer journeys are simply planned ahead of time.
What causes damp on a chimney breast?
Usually it is water getting in from outside, or condensation in a sealed stack. We check the stack, the flashings and how unused flues are capped and records the likely cause.
What’s the best way to book?
The quickest way is to ring 07833 053749 or drop us an email. Give us the address and some details about the roof. We survey on any day of the week.
How many surveys have you done?
We have more than 20 years’ experience and have completed over 5,000 surveys across London and South East England.
What do I do with the report?
You receive the written report by email, with photographs and recommendations. You can use it to talk to a seller, an insurer, a roofer or a managing agent, whichever applies.
How much does a chimney survey cost in Silver Street?
Chimney survey starts from £150, including VAT. Our three packages are Basic from £150, Standard from £250 and Premium from £400, inc. VAT.
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What happens on the day
Once we have finished looking, we write up our findings as a written report with photos, emailed to you. As for time on site, most surveys take roughly 1–2 hours for most houses; commercial roofs usually need 3–4 hours. Older rural homes like those around Silver Street can have a main roof, lower lean-to roofs and outbuildings all joined together. Each part is looked at from wherever it can be seen safely, and anything we cannot see is noted.
- We go through the chimneys, any damp and any work done on them.
- We check every stack from wherever it can be seen safely.
- Pots, cowls, flaunching, pointing and flashings are checked and photographed.
- We look for damp on chimney breasts and in the loft space.
- The report, with photographs and recommendations, is emailed to you.
Preparing for the visit
- Unlock side gates and any roof access doors
- Tell us about parking before the day
- Make a note of anything you’d like us to look at
How to book
Buyers should book once an offer has been accepted, so you have the findings in time to act on them before you exchange. Otherwise, simply ring 07833 053749 or drop us an email whenever suits you.
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When to book a survey in Silver Street
Many chimneys are no longer used. A stack sealed without ventilation can trap damp. Damp patches can appear on chimney breasts even when nothing is leaking.
We are often asked to look at:
- Spalled or crumbling bricks
- Worn or missing pointing
- Lifted or split lead flashings
- A chimney out of line
Take an older house close to Church of St John the Baptist: its roof may have old fixings, lead flashings and chimneys that need a closer look.
Before you book any roof surveyor
- If they fly a drone, whether they hold a CAA Flyer ID and Operator ID
- Whether the loft space is looked at, where there is one
- Which limits apply to the survey
- What the report includes, and whether it has photographs
DIY checks: what’s safe
You can learn a lot from ground level. Binoculars help you spot slipped slates or tiles, gaps along the ridge and a leaning stack. Please do not climb up for a closer look.
If you have a loft with safe access, take a look inside. Use a torch and stay on the joists or boards, and look for staining, damp timber or daylight coming through.
Leave it or get it looked at?
Cracked flaunching and worn pointing are often modest repairs when they’re caught early. Leave it, and frost can work the stack loose and the job gets bigger. For an older or listed building in a place like Silver Street, repairs may need matching materials and consent, so a defect found early gives time to plan the work properly.
We offer three survey packages: the Basic Survey from £150, the Standard Survey from £250 and the Premium Survey from £400, all inc. VAT. What your roof costs depends on its size, access and what you want to find out.
Why book us in Silver Street
- Package prices that include VAT
- Satisfaction rate of 98%
- 5,000+ surveys completed
- Surveys seven days a week
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