Removing A Chimney From The Middle Of A House | THE HANDYMAN |

[@TheHandyman1]

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[@gideonkroll5573]

My brother, I always love the way you end your videos😂 it means like people to have some conclusion or blooper but no. Not the handyman, straight to the point and I love it.

[@dosadoodle]

That's just like what I did with my chimney on our new old house. Except my chimney was in such terrible shape that I could see through it from the side and could just pick bricks right off it. And the internal clay channels had cracked into smaller pieces. I'm looking forward to taking it all the way down to the basement this winter!

[@Mydailydadlife]

Did the same thing to my house in Florida. But the roof was redone, so I had them remove down below the roof deck, I took care of the rest and gained a bigger closet space.

[@markarita3]

Underside of that roof looks identical to mine! Boards used for foundation forms. Didn't waste anything back then! House was built in '78 btw.

[@yogoombah2356]

Good time to install an attic exhaust fan?

[@rebeccaberg6677]

What tool are you using to break up the mortar?

[@scottfiresign953]

What is the tool you're using. Is it a mini jack hammer? Works great.

[@inscrutianaII]

I went with a steel roof a few years back and it just always seems either too hot or too cold to hang out inside my attic and then inside my walls deconstructing an old chimney to the foundation slab. Somehow there is always something else to do!

[@Reese_Young]

Yup attic has to be the worst part of it. I did the same thing I. My house and ya glad the attic didn’t take to long lol. Great video once again handyman!

[@kmilli0313]

Considering doing this in my house. The basement fireplace was deemed unsafe to use and the main floor they said we probably shouldn’t but they also quoted liked $15k for relining and fixing the brick around the cap. Would much rather take it out and gain some floor space as well as not have to deal with heating/cooling loss from both dampeners being rusted out and missing UPDATE: currently in process. Got it down to the main floor living room and roof closed up. Really hasn’t been bad. Unfortunately still need to take out the main floor fireplace and the basement fireplace so plenty more brick to go!

[@buffydog21]

My chimney has become obsolete, because I have 96% efficiency furnace and I have a tankless water heater. I wished, I would've got it years ago. Normally, I would be using 15+ CCF and I'm using less than 10 CCF. My chimney is only being used to attach the tankless water heater to in basement.

[@HomeRapidRepair]

Job well done Handyman 👍🏼👍🏼

[@mariap.7907]

that was great - I have a chimney in my attic also and I have to remove it - its a really old one like from the 1950s - so it should come out easy. did you put a skyview in your chimney from that hole? that's what I would have done to get some ventilation in there. is that possible if I do this to mine? to get natural light into my attic area, in the event I ever need to access that area again?

[@tachyonpulses625]

Thanks for this video! We have a larger fireplace (about 2x the size) in the middle of the house I'd like to remove. Our's goes through the cathedral ceiling directly through the roof which I imagine would make it easier to remove. At the peak is a beam running the length of the cathedral ceiling. However, the non-roof side angles down to our 8ft flat ceiling height so I imagine this is not load bearing which would be my main concern. Are all 'middle of the house' chimney's non-bearing? Thanks for any advice.

[@streetgainer]

Those clay liners were just sitting on top of each other and not sealed together?

[@terencemerritt]

I have that same Dewalt hammer drill. It’s a nice tool

[@anthonyb8405]

i had to do almost the same thing at my house. Definitely sucked hauling all the bricks out bucket by bucket.

[@JesterStrike]

That chimney came out easy. I did one a couple years ago and it was built like a tank. I needed a lot bigger demo hammer drill to bust the bricks loose. I also kept running into pockets of dumped mortar and concrete. Oh, another thing, spiders love brick walls, especially Brown Recluse.

[@dommyboysmith]

We find alot of mice skeletons too. If there's any gap at all they WILL find it (and die in it 😁)

[@dustinderolph3542]

The flue liner section came out super easy. Are they not mortared in by adhering to the brick? Also the sections aren't mortared together?

[@JesterStrike]

@@dustinderolph3542 I was talking with a bricklayer friend and he said they should be mortared together, but there are a lot of lazy bricklayers out there that shortcut whenever they can.

[@islaCMacLeod]

We have one to do that is built with concrete to withstand a nuclear blast lol not looking forward to it!!

[@John52416]

Brown Recluse are only in certain areas they are established in 16 states, and bites are rare. A family in Kansas captured over 2000 in their house, and no one ever got bite.

[@KableGuyCGY]

Nice caulk gun Handy!

[@JoelRieger87]

What type of bit were you using? Nice video.

[@brandonjensen5292]

Handyman da 🐐 no 🧢

[@shanewarren7567]

Oh masonry demolition is where the submariner comes off! I was wondering where you draw the line

[@TheHandyman1]

LOL.

[@Natural-Causes]

Heat billowing out, I guess you need to have them pay you to install end vents now.

[@TheHandyman1]

On the list. It has some small end vents. It doesn't have soffits.

[@doctorwork]

That part where you were reaching through the hole to take the bricks off of the attic section reminded me of the scene in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, in which he takes the log from the Whos' fireplace after taking everything else, including their last can of Who Hash. You went a step further and took the whole darn chimney!

[@TheOriginalMrB]

I need a magic bucket that never gets full just like The Handyman! *Typed that in my chipmunk voice…

[@robertlowe7431]

Any update on when the last live stream will be up on Patreon?

[@mib20000]

a quick and dirty slide made of plywood and 2x4's would have made quick work of the bricks off the roof into the trailer

[@АгронДепартье]

What was the reason for removing nice chimney ?

[@TheHandyman1]

make room for a furnace and to get the chimney out of the kitchen.

[@Jack_of_1_Trade]

Love your foot action with the flu

[@DWIL2307]

You need a half wit helper My uncle always had one as a full time handyman himself. Really nice hard working fellas.

[@bobbybobbo2359]

Why not a whole wit helper?

[@lorenforkgen8339]

@@bobbybobbo2359 probably cause his nephew was cheaper

[@spacewolfjr]

My parents did this too when I realized the truth about Santa Claus!

[@thomasholland7981]

I’ve heard that dropping the bricks down the chimney as you go is the preferred method. Any cons to that technique?

[@james6794]

seems fine for slab on grade but this house in the video has a basement and the chimney goes to it so youd have to haul all the bricks back up to ground level

[@TheHandyman1]

I plan to use this method some when I get to the kitchen.

[@robertcypress1699]

Thank you for sharing

[@mattcasoni]

Thank you handy

[@bradsturm1130]

Is that a recip saw with a masonry chisel?!?! Where can I find that chisel blade?

[@cliffpalermo]

SDS tool

[@spacemonkey2915]

That's a Chisel hammer

[@bradsturm1130]

@@cliffpalermo Thank you!

[@bradsturm1130]

@@spacemonkey2915 Thank you!

[@JK-Handyman]

At 12:10 minutes you pulled the last metal chimney stack out and dust went everywhere, you started sneezing and I pulled my shirt over my face lol.

[@johnsonjay60]

I have to do this next week. All the way from roof to crawl

[@michaelplays2449]

Great video !!!

[@mickfaragher7897]

Awesome work.

[@billybm0]

This seems like a monster job to take on. Hope it was worth it for ya.

[@josephfra2456]

What is the Dewalt tool you are using, an air hammer? Good video. Thanks

[@TheHandyman1]

Dewalt ssd.

[@josephfra2456]

@@TheHandyman1 thanks

[@josephfra2456]

On the Dewalt website, ssd doesn’t pull anything up. What does ssd stand for?

[@akaredcrossbow]

With today’s codes they want an air gap between the flue tiles and the brick. That allows too much expansion and contraction, so the flue tiles fail much faster. The chimney you’re working on has the flue tiles against the brick, and the flue tiles didn’t fail, just the mortar that connects the tile joints because of the age. Goes to show you the old timers knew what they were doing. The exterior brick might’ve need to be repointed more often from the expansion and contraction, but I’d rather have to do that instead of replacing the liner.

[@smarro71]

Thats exactly what I did couple of weeks ago on my 100 year old house here in NJ. And only because it ran in the middle of a bedroom 😂. Great video

[@michaelsparks6084]

So my wife and I decided to demo the fireplace in our little retirement home on a Portuguese island we recently bought. Little did we know the Portuguese mix kryptonite with their mortar! Long story short, we subbed that out! 😅

[@mariap.7907]

do you have their recipe? it would be good to have kryptonite when needed.

[@michaelsparks6084]

@@mariap.7907 lol😂

[@BamaBreeze]

Great show Handy. BTW had a new granddaughter on Friday. Can’t wait for her and I to watch Handyman shows together. HandyOn

[@TheHandyman1]

Congratulations.

[@robertlivingstone3947]

Good job

[@timothywielebski7945]

Serious question. Why bother to remove the chimney? I know when customers have requests you oblige but was chimney leaking or... ??

[@Fivemonthslater1]

I’m wondering the same thing!

[@TheHandyman1]

For a modern fix and flip or full house renovation Its necessary. The old chimney that use to service the old boiler system goes through the middle of the house and takes up a lot of space. It has to be removed. A new furnace needs to go in its place. This chimney goes right down through the kitchen. A huge pantry cabinet will go in its place. This is not a fire place chimney. There are 2 other chimneys that service the fire places. This customer will make close to $600,000 profit on the flip.

[@HaroldRutila]

I have this same situation going on in a 1940s house I am renovating. A couple of contractors acted like this was an impossible feat! (I never hired them.) Looks like a great project for next spring before we do a full gut on the inside. But yes, to clarify for the naysayers…it’s next to impossible to update the floor plan when you have a 4’ x 4’ chimney stack protruding straight through the middle of the floor. It prevents wall relocations and would require the kitchen to continue to be a small 1940s kitchen, which is not ideal today. If you can remove the chimney, you can reconfigure the floor plan however you like.

[@sunshinebuildersfl]

Good job bro

[@brentnearhood8874]

Hay Handyman! You should be wearing gloves!!!🔨

[@JereimiahJohnson]

At least you have your safety shirt on lacking all the rest 😂 kidding great job handyman

[@DarinMcGrew]

First, congratulations on NOT reenacting the story told in "The Bricklayer's Song" (The Corries). I'm sure you can find it on KZbin... Second, it was interesting watching this happen intentionally. Back in 1989, after the Loma Prieta earthquake, our neighbors' chimney just vanished above the roofline. All the bricks had collapsed into the chimney and fallen into the firebox. (In retrospect, I wonder what happened to the flue, but maybe it broke apart and was at the bottom of the pile of bricks.) Third, when you reached the roof and started removing shingles, flashing, etc., I had a gut reaction of, "Oh no, don't do that!" Then I realized that I've watched you repair roof leaks and worse before, and that you've certainly got everything under control.

[@golfclash2035]

Handyman get a helper. Your back will thank you.I know you won’t and the reasons but still.

[@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure]

We never do. Until we need to.

[@mst3kfan13]

I love my caulk gun sweatshirt.

[@denismanace]

That's crazy.

[@raya7]

I want to remove my unused chimmney stack to make more room for solar eventually. Anout how much would having this done cost?

[@TheHandyman1]

I will reveal the cost at the end of the video series.

[@nick_the_greek77]

The real question is what was the handyman looking for? (last 10 seconds of the video)

[@lifewithphoenix7972]

How much does this cost?

[@tachyonpulses625]

I can't speak for Handy but we had a quote for $8-10K which is why I'm looking at doing it myself. I have lots of 'handyman' experience just not doing this kind of work. Guess, I should mention it was for a fireplace.

[@chrisryu4742]

im gonna hide in the chimney if a tornado approaches my house

[@malbo4273]

Your best video 😂ever

[@cantgetright742]

Least you got a hole to stick your head out of and “cool down”

[@MyDIYAdventures]

Bee there, done that, made a vdeo! LOL

[@JW77]

I can't do these without gloves.

[@thomasholland7981]

No gloves???

[@TheHandyman1]

No need for gloves.

[@darylmiller8911]

But...... Whhhhhhhhyyyyyyyy Handyman

[@Aepek]

Hey handyman, how much asbestos think been breathing and touching 😉 ¹ Also big hole, no biggy, slap so,e foam or glue and put ¼ ply over it😉¹ ✌🏻 for being in article crawl space in summer heat, there w/ ya feeling the burn👊🏻 ¹ (fyi…..running handyman joke for all the new ppl out there)

[@tvue2322]

Why not wear gloves and a mask?

[@pipingcalifornia3476]

You are doing that completely wrong! Chemicals are known to the state of California to cause cancer!