So you think your chimney leans.

**Garry Sorrells** · 02-28-2013, 08:14 AM

The Leaning Tower of Pizza, Italy has a 3.9 deg list and has survived for hundreds of years.
What do you think the life of this chimney has instore for it?

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**Gunnar Alquist** · 02-28-2013, 09:50 AM

Are you sure the chimney is leaning? Maybe it's the house.

**John Kogel** · 02-28-2013, 12:16 PM

I think Italian engineers have been all over the Tower of Pisa, and it has been reinforced somehow, Google it, somebody.

That chimney has also been blessed from above for many years, but when the inner corner of the top approaches the line of the outer corner at the base, gravity will win the struggle. I would pull it down without any hesitation.

**Bob Burke** · 03-01-2013, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Garry Sorrells

The Leaning Tower of Pizza, Italy has a 3.9 deg list and has survived for hundreds of years.
What do you think the life of this chimney has instore for it?

Are you sure that's a chimney? Could be a lean-to facing the wrong way...

**Lon Henderson** · 03-02-2013, 08:53 AM

Turn your head to the side and there is no problem at all.....

But on a slightly more serious note, the Tower of Pisa would be the crumbled horizontal tunnel of Pisa if it wasn't being stabilized.

Dennis Webber · 03-05-2013, 02:45 PM

I wouldn't worry about it ..... the power line will keep it from falling over.

**Michael Chambers** · 03-11-2013, 11:29 PM

The Leaning Tower of Pisa was stabilized, and even straighten up by a couple of degrees, by a combination of putting 800 tons of lead in the high side of the base, and also removing some soil from under the high side.