Tearing Down a Chimney
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2014
- Here's my way of removing a chimney from a house. It was pretty simple, all it required was a bug up my butt and a sledge hammer. A little light tapping breaks the mortar joints and then you can remove block from the top down. This chimney runs through the house, so it is supported while demolition. With a a chimney build on the side of the house you would need to take appropriate precautions to avoid an accident. Once I was through the roof, I went to the attic, then the main floor. The roof framing was repaired and the hole patched, the ceiling joist replaced in the kitchen and the hole in the kitchen floor also repaired. In the next video I'll show the repairs and the demolition of the chimney in the basement. In the end this project was pretty simple and did not take that long. Hope this is a little help to those out there looking to do the same but need a little inspiration to get started. I've never done it before now and it worked out perfectly.
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Nice controlled clean up.
Thanks from Lakeview Oregon
An old kitchen stove side of the house chimney. Doing a tar paper Tin-Roof and it was in the way and had never dealt with one, your video helped.
Done my first chimney Wednesday just gone , simple enough , just had to be careful where we was if pedestrians underneath us. Was satisfied with it after it was all roofed in and riled up , wouldn’t even know it was there.
Thank you. Such a positive attitude. I have a similar job upcoming at my home. You make it look so easy! Thank you for the smiles and energy. Hope things go as smoothly here.
I like your positive attitude to hard work. Keep it up.
hasdrubal121 Thanks
You're the spitting image of a young Willie Nelson. Enjoyed the video, nice work.
Your a worker. Hard work never hurts anyone.
Awesome, thanks for the upload! Super helpful.
Thanks for the video, about to start this same project myself , home it is as easy as you made it look.
Thanks again!
Jeremiah Tutstone Technically it's not difficult, physically it is. The worst part is hauling away all the brick. Good luck.
Nice work and nice" workout" (somebody is going to be sore in couple days)! Patch in roof looks good. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. Very helpful. Thanks
Awesome video! Thanks for taking the time to film something like this , mine in the same spot but cuts right in behind the main bathroom door making it small and really tight ... with it gone would be a game changer , but need to look into another way to vent my furnace and hot water tank lol .. they both have the yellow energy star stickers so not too old but still not sure if I can vent with pvc I'll have to look into it more . Great video! 👍
Looks like the beginning of an interesting series :)
Wow, looks a lot like my house! Neat video.
John Heisz Thanks John, it's a big project.
nice job. men love tearing down things. and me too!!!
René Dümichen How many times have you been torn down by men?
Matt de Oliveira 1
Cool. Looks like you have a lot of work to do
Well explained
That's a hard days work brother
+matt284fun I had to do another one on the other side of the roof.....it was a lot of bricks.
Great video! Just bought a house with a large chimney in the middle and I'm not excited for this. Did you have alot of full bricks? If so did you end up doing anything with the bricks?
How many hours did it take to take it down and patch the roof?
Well, if it only takes about 4 minutes, guess I'll do mine- be right back.
In your opinion, is it possible to do it while saving the material?
I have a big exterior chimney with cement blocks. My biggest concern isnt to take it down but to haul away hundreds of blocks. I could easily reallocate the material to build walls on my yard, that only if i do not sledge hammer them all.
If you had the time and patience you could always use a grinder to grind out the mortar joints and remove blocks one by one. Really though I think you would be better off finding a way to use the broken stone for the time Involved. At the very least I would say knock it down until you can close the roof ASAP to prevent water issues. Then when you are inside in the comfort of the AC take your time! Haha.
Looks like an ambitious project. Should be fun to watch. How's the "Square Inch" house coming? I'm really missing updates on the work for that house.
Bill Hantzopoulos Hey, Thanks. As you can see from this video and others, I'm a busy person, and that's just the stuff I make videos on, there's more going on behind the scenes than on camera. I'll be doing another video this week on how the house is attached to the trailer and starting some on designing a house and the different things I've thought of and learned along the way, it's a big topic so it will be a series.
What is the mask protecting from indoors? Just regular dust or a specific chemical/toxin?
Zsolt Beres It's just dusty, it's a organic vapor mask so it's good for just about anything you'd encounter in a house. I prefer to where a respirator over dust masks, they are much more comfortable to wear for long periods of time.
How much does a job like this usually cost sir?
I don't know, this is my own house. My guess is to have a grown man doing everything right in the world show up with a truck with logos on the side and employed helpers......thousands. $2k-4k is my guess....who knows It involved tearing down the chimney, fixing roof, the wall, ceiling and floor as well as patching the concrete in the basement. And hauling away the brick and other mess. It might cost more than my guess, it's expensive when you start your projects in the phone book.
The Homestead Craftsman thanks for the info man!