Worth downloading Part J of the building regs, if the general design is within the regs I would not worry, there are thousands of chimneys with bends in them, it can improve the draught as a straight flue pulls the heat up the flue without restriction.
Thanks Peter C, I checked up Part J of the building regs and it states that
"Flues should be vertical wherever possible and where a bend is necessary, it should not make an angle of more than 37.5° with the vertical." This worries me as the design my architect has done is a 2.8m section of flue running at 45-degrees to the vertical. On the architectural detail, it it just looks suspect.
The real question for me is why you aren't simply; -
a) running it straight up abd using a built in wardrobe panel to hide it, or
b) projecting it to the outside of the wall and making an architectural feature out of the chimney. quote]
Initially, the chimney was designed to go directly up through the room above. While we did not like the fact that it would rise up through the middle of the room above, we were prepared to accept it to ensure we had a chimney that worked properly! But if we were to do this, it would spoil the symmetry of the house and just does not look right on the elevation...looks terrible actually. From the front elevation, there are 2 stone-built chimneys strategically located protruding through the rooftop.
I had thought about projecting it to the outside wall but (1) we don't believe it would suit the style of the house and (2) it would mean moving the fireplace within the room which does not suit our desired room layout. I have raised my concerns to my architect but would be grateful if anyone can actually verify that this works in practice.
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