scott brown here in today's exciting episode we remove this chimney
okay our main focus this morning is propping everything up so the
chimney can come out see it's quite a mess up here
oh so the next stage of this chimney removal is to take away all the
roof framing that's in and around the chimney prop it and support it elsewhere
we've done most of the propping here there's one bedroom there's another and this wall is
a wall we're taking out this brace here is sitting on the wall but we want it to sit
on a beam and that beam can't go in until this chimney's gone so we've braced all the way down
all the way down the middle here just off the wall line and then if you look on the other side of the
chimney there's also another brace going all the way down this is similar to form work when
you're doing concrete you sit back and you look at everything you go okay how can it fail where
can the concrete push this out so we're doing the same sort of thing with the roof structure
once that chimney's gone how can this framing fall on us so pato and i are gonna do that and as soon
as i drop my camera and catch it it'll be tomorrow all right started taking stuff out polythene here
hypo dropping off the scaffolding and that scaffolding is for the inside of
this chimney removal but today the sun is shining and we're focusing on the outside
i'm not helping you with it
so
so the weather's good in some respects it's very sunny no rain it's a little bit windy
so the roof below the chimney is getting replaced but we still don't want to you know chuck bricks
down on it because it's likely to bounce so we've got this flat sheet of ply here and we hope this
flat sheet of play will be enough to hold the bricks at least until parker can grab them from
the scaffold that he'll be standing on right here and we've got the camera cable tied to the roof
so
doing away with these overalls putter no yeah no they're just ripped shreds already so far
so good we did well with the we did well with the s-wing hammer thankfully a lot of
it was quite loose and actually some of the top pieces some of the top pieces were wet
even you know the water gets into those top layers of brick and it made it easier
um some of them were a bit more stubborn and we had to get the sledgehammer out
it's literally safe yeah
so
that's the roof part done now we've got a skylight we're not going to knock down
the rest of the chimney just here we need to get this place weather tight
so that has been stitched onto the rest of the rafter we've got the longest piece that
we could fit in so we've got a good lap we're pre-cutting some stuff for the purlin on the top
and then we're hoping these clouds don't continue
so that's the cloud coming out direction probably tell by the wind you can tell by
the water hitting us that that cloud is gonna you can tell by the rain vertical so we're gonna out
of desperation using these overlap sheets we're gonna try and poke it under and then
see here we go those clouds don't look good and on a entirely separate note it's my birthday today
temporary roof
are you feeling rich all right are you in i feel good yeah feel ready to knock down
the chimney feeling safe i'm working above you guys so that's all good yeah you like looking
down on people i just feel safe you know you guys should be a little bit concerned
oh
you can see the lentil here made up of bricks going that way you take one out
and three four oh there's like a steel thing here
okay
but there we go guys chimney gone it was right right it was right here before
right there so below the floor line here we are still deciding we've got to check the condition
of the subfloor frame and see whether we can just put a leveling compound on top of the concrete and
leave it at that i might talk to the owner and see if he wants to put some floorboards across there
um we'll see what happens there it's not holding up the rest of the job so we can leave it for now
and the roof we've been waiting for sunshine to actually finish the roof properly we just put
a temporary thing as you just saw we'll sort that out very soon just before you go i just wanted to
shout out fred dibner that's a dude on youtube he lived in bolton and when i was researching
you know how to demo a chimney his videos came up and they're from like the late 70s early 80s he's
passed away now but if you want a good watch and you haven't seen it before if you're in the uk you
probably know exactly who i'm talking about but if you haven't check it out i'll put some links
at the end of this video he's quite a character and um he knocks over chimneys at a 100 meters in
the air it's crazy so yeah check that out and um thanks for watching catch you guys on the next one
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