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Fireplace Cracked

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  • 14-11-2009 12:25am
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    cyning
    Registered Users Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭


    We've just moved into new house there for one month and the fireplace is cracked: in 3 places! Its since we started lighting fires: anyway we bought from developer BUT the houses were built two years ago. I'm just wondering does anyone know if we can get him to replace it or who do we go to... like if it was a year later it would be okay, but a month is a bit ridiculous!


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    GER12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭GER12


    Have you tried getting in touch with the developer (if they are still in business and havent gone bankrupt yet) - or looking into whether you have homebond gaurantee.

    I am not an expert but to be entirely safe I wouldnt use the fire till you get a survey of the chimney.


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    boggerboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭boggerboy


    cyning,
    where there any heat gaps in the hearth?


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    cyning
    Registered Users Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭cyning


    God I'm going to sound stupid but I have no idea: how would I know?


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    dilallio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Is the crack easily spotted?
    If so did you get an Engineer / Surveyor to check out the place before you bought it?


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    vHOST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭vHOST


    just curious, would that be covered by homebond insurance???? coz i have same problem, and i thin builders are out of business.


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    cyning
    Registered Users Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭cyning


    The crack only appeared after we lit a few fires. The guy who installed the fireplaces is coming out this evening so fingers crossed. I did have an engineer check it out before we bught


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    Joey the lips
    Registered Users Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Fireplaces usually crack because they were not suitable for fires :eek:

    If its a one pce heart it should have not had a fire lit in.

    If its a 2 pce it will be suitable.

    Easy way to tell. There will be a vertical line in the middle


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    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    vHOST wrote: »
    just curious, would that be covered by homebond insurance???? coz i have same problem, and i thin builders are out of business.

    No. Homebond is for major structural defects only.


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