THE ANATOMY OF A CHIMNEY.... CHIMNEY DEMOLITION PART 3

Well, it never ever goes I expect it to with it, I thought. So, I'll have to call this video the anatomy of a chimney. Wonder how long that's been stuck in that cavity and who used it last and what they were doing. Happy [bell] Tuesday, I think. I tell you what, 10 half an hour ago it was bouncing down here. Absolutely bouncing down. So, we've had a bit of a hectic morning running around picking stuff up, collecting stuff, I suppose, materials, sand cement, etc. Alex has rung up and swapped that for a full tunner. Do it outside, but it's too windy. and then come in to see this this damp patch on the on the dust sheet just on that corner, but it's it's damp where the walls have been damp and it's um it's a weird one. I thought it was leaking from above cuz we took it all out, but obviously the roof's on over the top. So, that is wicked up out the wall. So, that chimney breast is soaking wet somehow. Definitely a failed damp course. This thing that's an that's an epic fail at that thing plugged into the mains and then drilled into every three bricks. See where the curl is? That's where it's drilled into the bricks and resin in if you like. What a waste of time that is. So today we got our acros. Now we've got this brick work down probably down to about here. But the joyister sat on the chimney breast, we think. So, better safe than sorry, we've brought the acros in. So, we're going to prop off the put a plate down here. Let me think which way the choice is going. Joyce are going. Yeah, choice to go in that way cuz the floorboards are going that way. So, the joist going that way. So, we're going to put a plank down. Spread the weight. Got a piece of 3v2 to put up there to take the weight of these joists here. Once that's propped, we can take this down. And also, once that's propped, we can put we've got an extra long acro to go from the hearth up to the ping. So everything's held basically until we get all these walls, all this block work back up cuz once this is out. We've got to reinstate the cavity wall, the internal skin. So um is that the long one? >> Yeah. >> Just leave it split in half. Thanks. It's got to go upstairs. I leave it in two halves. Super long. We got that just in just in case ours don't reach to the ping. So then get this done first and then wire it % [music] >> [music] [music] >> So, we've propped up to here. Now, we're going to prop this half where the joist is, which is there. There's no to come across a bit. I've got a piece of 32 put in there. So, I'm going to put put the PV2 in and then up to the ping up there. And then we'll just check if that piece of timber is still loose and see if anything settled. Here's the cavity ties been put in. So, because none of this is tied in anymore, this whole section we're tying into the walls and we're tying into that. So, we need to get some long blueird screws for that. Bluebird ties for that. Um, still looking for them. They're hard to get hold of now, but we'll sort it out. And then we've got all this all this to take out yet, which is currently got the plling sat on it. So once the plling's propped, we can take take this skin out. Yeah, we'll just take it out from up there. >> You'll have you have to take the top bit out from up there, obviously. Just drop it down into the chimney. >> Just drop it straight down here. >> What? >> All that skin there. >> Yeah, it can't stay in, can it? It's in the way. It's We left it in cuz they're pearly, but now it's got to come out. And we'll have to snap these off as we go. These headers, but we'll leave them in for now. Yeah. Quite a bit of work. Yeah. Is that piece of timber still loose? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So, nothing's moved. That's good news. Right. Let's get this a film. Time's not then. Just switch the camera on. So anyway, Alex is up in the loft. He's just started the uh took the top of those bricks out. You see there's overheaders underneath the ping, but the ping is propped onto this cut down through that anyway. So he's tucked down as far as he can reach down. So now I'm going to reach up and prize this skin out. And while the skip's still here, which chucking her in the top, that's the first bit. The second bit I'd missed fall out the skip. So yeah, we'll just keep um pulling them out and chucking them in. We're due for a swap any minute. So, well, hopefully in a minute, but let's crack on. Get this locked down. Hey. [music] Heat. Hey, Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Hey, [music] hey, hey. Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Right. That's it. Down. Trying to head down. Have light. So, we're going to the living room now. Um, well, let's go and make some more mess. Need to skip now. So, we're going to stop putting stuff in it. So, we're just going to pile the rubble downstairs in the room below and then move it from there. And then this lock rust to the hole, I think. Let's see. Might get the the bulk of just throw the dust down the hole. Yeah, there's no level here. So, quite a bit of work left in this yet. The blocks have arrived. Always great service from Stu and the lads at Fwood John the driver. I say it's like Amazon like within the hour. Always handy. So, yeah, let's uh clear off, head downstairs, and crack on. Oh, yeah. Christine popped out with a sausage buty and a coffee. So, we both had sausage buty. Don't worry, that's that's lunch getting skipped. Boy, I enjoyed that nice little snack and um and a cheeky monkey. That's my second one today. Right, see you downstairs. We're down. And in a quite a handy turn for events, skit wagons here. So we are ready to crack on with this and we'll have a we'll have a nice empty skip as you can see that we've got worth out of that one. So there's in that 8 ton skip is that wall all the inside of that chimney breast up to there and everything for two stories all up after that I'll put clips in. Oh, that is a that's some good stacking that if I don't say if I don't say so myself. There you go. The rubble's piling up but not too high. Oh my sweeping brush is in there buried. Might just be able to see the handle and my shovel. Forgot about them. But as you can see, the uh the board has been pushed out. So, and the rubble's spilling out to the bottom. So, it's done its job. Any bit of surface dust down here. So, we get all the windows and doors open now. And we'll get Blitz in this top bit straight into the skip. And it's a it's a 4 toner, so it's going to be lower than that. So, we still throw stuff out the window if it gets in the same place. >> Yeah. >> There's our screw ties, plugs. Got another bag to pick up from main entry. Probably have to get more bugs cuz I want to put them in every two courses. And there's going to be about 20 odd courses up there. Two and a half block wide roughly tied into the the two cheeks and tied into the external skin. Two ties every course, but we haven't picked them up yet or we haven't found any yet. Um yeah, there's loads of them sticking out. They're medium cavity ties. Loads of them sticking out. So, um, yeah, we basically just got to get this down and restabilize everything. That's that's coming out. That's got to come out all the way through. I've explained that already, but I need I need a measurement off the um log burning technician guy to say what what um dimensions the hole need to be. Uh he's just um because it's a 4 toner, he's got to drop it there, pick the eight ton up, put that back down somewhere else, pick the for up and move it over there. >> Yeah. >> If it was eight, you'd be able to lift it up into the empty, drop the both back down, and then lift the full one out of the empty and leave it as it is. But because they're different sizes, you can't do that. They got to be same size skips or bigger. But yeah, um while that's gets sorted, I'll get camera set up and get cracking on this. >> How long do we want to protect child for? How long do you get kids to be able to be kids to be able to be, you know, free devices? And so, um, you know, we have advocated for, you know, 14 is the minimum age that kids should be getting smartones and social media, but it's always about holding out as long as you possibly can. Trump has demanded that Israel and Iran immediately start shooting after the two countries began attacking each other since April social media post shortly after explosions. Iran's allies in Yemen and the others in Iran itself to the very south people are woken up to the sound of sirens for the first time in 2 months. series. Wonderful. >> [laughter] >> What? Oh, heat. That's it. You might just catch the corner of that. So, it's just got the four up. I just pulled it so it's tight against the other skip. Stop it flapping about in the wind. That's clever. Never seen that done before. Straight back down and scoosh done. Shut that window. Alex in charge as much stuff as possible. Getting used to talking to people and conversing with them and getting to know how stuff works. more great service and we've had quite a few jobs from upskirt skips as well. >> I know. Thank goodness. >> Oh yeah, >> there people who watch us on YouTube and see us on Instagram aren't sure where we're from because we don't tell everyone we're from. We don't tell anyone. So they see HomeKit skips think if they use HomeKit skips they must be local. So we've had must been half at least half a dozen jobs have noticed the skips and contacted us because of the skips >> cuz skips pretty much cover the same areas as we do. >> Yeah. Which is the quickest way from here? >> Um that was that 15 minutes turn around. Fantastic. No double landing today. [music] Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey, hey. >> [music] [music] >> rental. >> Yeah. Heat. >> [snorts] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Hey. Hey. Hey. >> [music] >> This is changing. >> [music] [music] >> Feels so sweet. >> [music] [music] >> Well, it never ever goes I expected, would it? I thought I'd be down in half a day. And even we can't even blame the skips. Skipped tire. It was impeccable timing. It's a full on halfway full now, but it's down. Oh, it's that gray stuff there. That's um part of the cavity. And we've cut the clip brick work back. So, the cavity's open as we always do. So, we're going to tie into that and tie into that as soon we get the tower sorted out. Um, yeah, all the basically we're ready to go to to chamber height. But we need nail hook. I think he's going to have to put a trimmer on that joist to carry the 1 2 3 4 five to carry these five ones that used to sit in the on the chimney rest. They sat on the outside skin. This front of the chimney was a 9 in wall. So, um, and as we go, we're going to knock all this off. All those see if I'm put in the right place. Yeah, we knock all these returns off. So, the cavity is open all the way through. We've got insulation, but we'll speak to the customer, see if they want that bit insulating cuz the rest of the cavity isn't. So, I've got that big pile out from there. I always whenever I can get at the cavity, I always clean it as much as I can, as far as I can, as far as I can reach. We've got all the remedial tires. You've got the original tires down there which see in good condition. This wall feels absolutely solid, but it is rendered. So once we've plugged this hole again, which this wasn't down on the price, this this is extra cuz we didn't know the chimney press went back to the outside skin. We just assume it went into the cavity wall. So same as the other job in old skirt, chimney went back to the outside skin. So I should imagine it loses a lot of heat like that. But anyway, you can see how it used to go. fireplace here up over there and then you've got another fireplace from there up there and then they meet at the top up in the loft. So this one go was a hell of a journey. So I'll have to call this video the anatomy of a chimney. That was hard. So um all the stuff is for us to start building it back again. And then we need to find out what size this opening needs to be for this. So, we got two 1200 concrete lintils for opening up lintils in in one, two, might need another one. That's three skins there. We'll see. Anyway, uh yeah, right. Put you back on town. That's what we get tidied up and then we can bog off and come back tomorrow. We're coming straight here tomorrow. No messing picking stuff up. So, we'll be at half 7 tomorrow ready to crack on. We also have the mix of others, right? [music] >> [music] >> Right, we found a chisel. Cold chisel. Don't know what that bit was stuck in, but it's preserved that bit. The rest of it is rusty to hell. Little bit of mushroom on the top. Wonder how long that's been stuck in that cavity and who used it last and what they were doing. Lot of history in that thing. And I I've got a pluging chisel that I found in the cavity well over 20 years ago. And it's still it's still my favorite pluging chisel. There it is. Sure. was homemade, but that came out the cavity in pretty much the same shape. That is I've had that I've probably had that longer than Alex. [sighs] Great. That that's definitely homemade by the look of it. Never know what you're going to find in them cavities. So, Alex did this side. Don't know what that is in there, but it's solid solid brick work like it's been built like that. And then the other stuff, it's just not budging. So, we got everything we can out. And that was that was a damp spot there. But the dust that came out wasn't damp. So, and this damp corner was the pipe leaking off the radiator. So, that's mystery solved. All right. We're all locked up. We're all [snorts] windows are all shut. So, up and get going. Catch you tomorrow. >> [music]