Mariah
that's awesome I've got mine I know we're exactly where it is got Bruce here this morning
and Bruce is helping me sit up this wall because we're doing the second half of the
chimney demolition so the first half was Missy we had the concrete saw with the water attached
to the concrete sawer and that kept the dust down a little bit we can only do that down to the roof
level as soon as we got to the roof level we had to take the roofing off and then the house was
exposed so we couldn't use the water anymore but now we're inside so there's nowhere for
the dust to go so we have to create a tent now this tint is going to be filled with dust very
very quickly so we've got to come up with a way to keep the dust in the house but also get the
dust out of the house while we can still work in the tent and get concrete out of the house
does that make sense outside the duck only attacks the duck's got the index got to come
from where you're working yeah through that and then you blow it out to wherever you
want to blow it that's right and then all this stuff in here is our wall okay yeah yeah just
like a giant vacuum cleaner pretty much we're going to be working within the vacuum cleaner
anything come out no what old knees need covering I think that's good advice for young needs as
well yeah it's actually quite good in winter too because you keep wearing shorts and your knees
don't get cold so new South Islanders shorts in the winter well I grew up in Auckland I remember
going to school yeah there's a young kid so that's in the 60s yeah I was pretty sure I
wore sandals all year round I don't think I wore shoes just I don't know I just grew up that way
that's the name of this product zipper
all right we've got a proper assassination room now
for the other side
I'm going to be removing some of the framing around this fireplace and that
framing is also supporting the ceiling so this hoarding has to do dust and ceiling support
oh there we go all sealed up this here is why they call zip wall zip wall
it's basically a sticker that happens to be a zip you apply it to the plastic and then you cut
plastic after it and they just adhere and then you cut down the middle once you've opened it
there's your door and this is how you get in so there we have it we have the tent there so we
can access that side when we need to but what I'm hoping for hoping that by cutting this other side
first we can break into this living room area I don't want to smash both sides at the same time
look at that
that's what we've been cutting all the way up okay but down here it looks cast yeah oh dear
it's gonna be tricky have you ever watched stranger things Bruce stranger things on
Netflix Oh no I've seen the shorts of it I think if you'd ever do watch it look at the interior
Linings okay that's pretty much this it's Masonite pretend wood we've got it everywhere foreign
foreign
it's delicious by the way just oh well it looks fantastic big hungry man yeah definitely oh you
like it oh good I'm glad the fireplace has been better than we thought Bruce so far
you don't speak too soon what do you reckon Jess from your perspective how did it go I
just really think I've contributed so much to this demo of the chimney yeah yeah supervising
cheering us on everybody every job needs a supervisor supervising from the plant
section of miter 10. that's what I was doing is this mine is it yeah so what do you call those
and twice straight delicious toasted sandwiches thank you Jess I'm nice complimenting myself yeah
they're really nice now there's one more Factor there's one more thing that we've got to figure
out is what is the foundation of this chimney because we're going to build this laundry on top
of here that's the whole reason for getting rid of the thing well most of the reason so we need
to know what we're building on top of so we've got the last little bit to clear we'll figure it out
foreign
see
everything
just about folded up this was the crazy thing this is all still reinforced and it's not the
fireplace it's just the front of the fire and it was like the probably the hardest
part because there's a pull out and big slabs that's what's left of my chimney
well that went well solid concrete that's what we got which is awesome because we need to put
the laundry right here and I'm gonna design it so the washing machine is on the concrete and
then the vibration of the washing machine won't transfer to the rest of the Timber structure so
yeah we've got no fireplace now a lot of people in the previous episode were asking why on Earth
would you get rid of a fireplace you're crazy what if the world goes upside down and you would
no longer have heading I don't know what to say to that if the world goes upside down and I don't
want it and I no longer have power because that's what our heading source is powered by
then I've probably got other problems right I'll show you what my heating source is now
so this is our heat pump unit and it attaches to all these ducts now the big duct here on the right
is the intake and these smaller ducts over on the other side they go into each room and provide the
hot air and the hot air goes throughout the house and then it comes back in this big pipe and Tech
thing and it goes back through the machine and goes all over again now there is also a
refrigerant outside big fat Fan basically that controls the temperature using uh I'm not even
going to pretend to understand how that works but I definitely uses power but the power the
power that it uses it uses it very efficiently and our Powerball has gone up though since we
used it but what you have to understand is we went from a little oil heater on wheels that would have
in the living room during the evening and then we'll wheel it into the bedroom before we went
to sleep each of those rooms would be warm when the oil heater was in it and it would be freezing
every other time we went from that to heating the entire house with this efficient ducting system
so it went up like a hundred dollars a month so it was like two to three hundred dollars a month
and the other factor is we've renovating this place we've already insulated and double glazed
one room we've double glazed another room and in the next month or so all those bedrooms will
be double glazed and slowly we'll be insulating our way around the house so the goal is to make
the house more efficient so it holds the heat that we've generated with this heat pump and
because it's not a client's job I can tell you exactly how much we we pay for the heat pump
system but I'm probably going to do that after the add read which helps pay for the heat pump
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would you pay that much for a ducted heat pump system and if you live in New Zealand did I
get ripped off did you pay less and um yeah how would you knock down a chimney foreign
once the camera adjusts you'll see that it is 17.5 and I guess it was 19 degrees that's the
target temperature so let's see how long it takes to get to 19 degrees
and while I'm editing oh my God it's 19.5 degrees in here now and it has been 20
minutes and the house is at 19.5 degrees so that is why we love it we just turn it on
just as talking to friends through there I'm editing a video and the house is warming up