Bees in a chimney Leicestershire LE9 - Can anyone on here take them away?

[The Riviera Kid]

I have had a call about a colony of bees that have set up home in a chimney in LE9 Leicestershire. Is there anyone on here who is interested in trying to get them out?

The lady seems ok with them there and has sealed up the open chimney in the room at the bottom to stop the bees coming in the house but obviously wants them out.

she says that the chimney has been capped, but clearly they have got in some how. I suspect that the pointing has gone cos she was saying that rain comes in down the chimney sometimes and makes a puddle. I have two open chimneys in my house and that doesn't happen here.


Any offers or other suggestions???

Cheers,

Simon

 

[Midland Beek]

I'm busy turning water into wine.

 

[MuswellMetro]

I have had a call about a colony of bees that have set up home in a chimney in LE9 Leicestershire.

Cheers,

Simon

anyone want the same in london NW7, just refused to collect in a capped chimney


access to flat roof by stairs to rear at eves heightr

 

[Gardenbees]

Perhaps the owner of the house should put this on their wish-list to Santa...

 

[victor meldrew]

The chimneys don't look capped to me ?
I'd say they have ventilation cowls fitted, which gives easy access to bees !

VM

 

[tonybloke]

The chimneys don't look capped to me ?
I'd say they have ventilation cowls fitted, which gives easy access to bees !

VM

they appear to have a 'mushroom top' fitted, which should be fitted and secured with either cement of some sort of sealant. so no, not easy to remove.

 

[victor meldrew]

they appear to have a 'mushroom top' fitted, which should be fitted and secured with either cement of some sort of sealant. so no, not easy to remove.

Not usually .
They are manufactured from earthen ware and are quite heavy, they sit inside the chimney pot and there's more of the bulk of them out of sight
I've only every experienced one of these things dislodged and that was during a particularly severe Gale !

VM

 

[tonybloke]

Hi Victor ( John)
My Father worked as a technical rep for 'Parkray', and then the Coal Board as a solid fuel specialist and as a chimney inspector for most of the councils in east anglia.
I have helped him inspect well over 1000 flues / chimneys ( usually me up on the roof )
the mushroom tops should be secured.

 

[victor meldrew]

Hi Victor ( John)
My Father worked as a technical rep for 'Parkray', and then the Coal Board as a solid fuel specialist and as a chimney inspector for most of the councils in east anglia.
I have helped him inspect well over 1000 flues / chimneys ( usually me up on the roof )
the mushroom tops should be secured.

Mh!,
I'm an electrical engineer and one time coal miner

I wouldn't deign argue with such talent but the cappings in the picture, feature throughout my part of the world , the majority obviously out of spec' , as would a close up of the ones in question appear to be

VM

 

[victor meldrew]

On further investigation, the four flues involved are capped against the weather rather than being 'active flues !
I have 4 such flues , 2 capped as per the picture plus 2 capped with gas cowls ,
The vented ones could be exchanged to accommodate active ones with relative ease ( as ,has been done recently to one of mine .

I don't think (getting back on thread ) that too much in the way of building work would be required to gain access to the chimney swarm?.

VM

 

[tonybloke]

yes John, back on target,
the cappings probably contain a lot of the comb, My best advise would be to remove the complete chimney pot, bees an'all !

 

[hedgerow pete]

firstly to one and all, unless you have a lot of gear , ie scaffolding and the like doing any thing with chimney pots on ladders is very near to suicide.

most chimney pots are bedded on to the top of the chimney brick flue with 50mm of motor or concrete and will easily weigh up to 50 kg , secondly if you manage to get it of being that roofs slope there is no where to put it down unless you climb all the way down to the ground, in which case it has to go all the way back up

bees in chimneys are not worth the hassel even if you have a scaffolding to hand,

how do i know , because i have done 18 of them over the years.

if you realy must its safer to go in through the loft and up the stack rather than down from the top

 

[victor meldrew]

how do i know , because i have done 18 of them over the years.

Slow learner Pete?

VM

 

[MuswellMetro]

well i declined, too high

if they had been lower because they are only newly arrived : less than 48hrs i would have used FABI spray to get them off their new comb in the chimney and attrack them to a Nuc with some brood in it

They are in the darker chinmey and the cowls are cemented in and chimneys blocked at high level as the stack has been cut back

i would think a nice bit of wet weather and they will die as all the stores will be in the wax now

charges,

they offered me £120 but i now know that over the phone a beekeeper offered to remove at £40 per hour minimum 3 hours plus £50 call out IF they arranged the scaffold they said ok, until they got the scaffold quote!!!!!! when the came to me saying it can be accessed from our flat roof.....i declined when i saw it

 

[sherwood]

This called a sailors hat. It should not be sealed the chimney requires ventilation. If you with to make it bee proof line the inside of the sailors bonnet with some mesh to stop them getting in but still allow a flow of air.

Alan

 

[sherwood]

"they appear to have a 'mushroom top' fitted, which should be fitted and secured with either cement of some sort of sealant. so no, not easy to remove"

This called a sailors hat. It should not be sealed the chimney requires ventilation. If you with to make it bee proof line the inside of the sailors bonnet with some mesh to stop them getting in but still allow a flow of air.

Alan

 

[MuswellMetro]

does this help, i took the cement stains to mean they were fixed

 

[victor meldrew]

Bird sh*t

VM

 

[hedgerow pete]

most chimneys are not seal properly it is common for me to see a paving slab on top of the chimney sealing it with the pots reinstated on the top to keep the apperences up