Chimney or desk. One or the other.

@arkeiris77 Can I clarify a couple of things? Did you use MOO when placing the desk or other items? Do you have mods or cc? Also are you using MOO to place the chimney and has the chimney been enlarged with [ ] keys?? Are you trying to place the chimney in an area (or at a size) or height it would not usually snap to? (Like onto a wall, on the ground, etc.) Thank you!

I don't know what MOO is tbh so I couldn't say. I don't have any mods or cc. I have used Mods in the past but I find they make the game unreliable so I removed them and returned to a pre-mod save. The house itself iss an upgraded The Old Salt House that came with one of the expansion packs after City Living. All the furniture is from an earlier home the Sims lived in though. The chimney was meant to be built using the wall tool. I think there's only one item that's ever been enlarged and that was a sculpture. On the picture, you can see how I was going to place the chimney and, on the other side of the house, you can see the desk that would have been affected.

@arkeiris77  I apologize, but could you please re-read my first reply... I had edited it a couple of times that overlapped with your response, so there are a few more questions. Thanks!

Hi. Yeah. I modified my answer as well. lol.

@arkeiris77 MOO is a cheat, "Move Objects On". Similarly there can be potential issues when you haven't used MOO but you have dragged the item closer than where it snapped to by default.. Could any of that be involved in placement(s) of these objects?

I don't think I've ever used any cheats other than the occasional ResetSim cheat. As for objects snapping, I've never known any other way of moving an object outside of a snap, although I have noticed very small items that can be placed on counters, diner plates, for example, can snap on several points of one counter. The concept of moving items outside of a snap point is unfamiliar to me though. Sorry.

@arkeiris77 The chimney isn't placed with the wall tool so I am not sure I am following what you mean... are you building a wall area and placing the chimney in or on top of it? If the build does not want you placing in that location/manner, you may need to give up that idea (which is a cool idea, btw) and just place the chimney on the roof, as this is where it is designed to be accepted. I am a builder and I have 'gotten creative' with  chimneys myself, but sometimes I need to give up a creative use idea if it is just not playing well with build mode, placement, or testing in the live game. 

Sorry, I didn't mean to be vague. So...when I say chimney, I'm referring to the entire stack from the fireplace up to the rooftop, which as far as I know, means a three or four by one tile room immediately behind the fireplace, another on top and another on top of them until you're one above the roof and then a chimney object on the top of that. At the point in that picture, the chimney has only got as far as trying to build the first room on the ground floor.

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Edit... I have been looking at your screenshot and I think I understand that you are basically adding a small 'room' that will look like a chimney from the outside? I suppose a couple of things thing you could try are:

• See if it will accept you adding it with the room tool rather than the wall tool. 
• Try moving the fireplace and all objects in that area of the house and draw/add the new room with the room tool. Maybe make the rectangle inside adjacent to the wall then drag the one side of the small room outward then move the other side toward it. Kind of sneak up on it and not cause the jar that seems to be triggering the deletion?

I could definitely try some of it. I can't try all but some. With the wall tool, the picture shows me using the wall/room tool. I find that if I just use the wall/wall tool, there's another deletion as well in a different place, namely the back door at the top of the picture, although there is a difference in that the back door can be put back there once the room is complete whereas once the desk has been removed, the place where the desk was becomes unavailable for anything and everything. That said, I can try building in advance nearby and then sneaking it into place after. Thank you. 🙂