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[Unhinged]

"Housebuilders are being forced to install £1,200 fake chimneys on new homes to meet local planning rules.
One major housebuilder estimated that it had spent half a million pounds installing hundreds of fake chimneys on new homes in the last year alone"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/13/housebuilders-install-plastic-chimneys-new-homes/

 

[Hugo Magnus]

That eco friendly, not.

 

[Gimlet]

Those stupid things have been around for nearly 30 years. A sure sign of shit build quality on new-build houses is a fake fibreglass chimney stack. You can guarantee every corner's been cut and every penny pinched.

 

[wroughtironron]