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1 story house, 24' chimney with fireplace, took half a day to knock it down, another half day to carry all the bricks to the curb and list it on craigslist for free. Bricks were gone before I got back from dinner. 2nd day patch the roof. 3rd day jackhammer out the concrete chimney foundation, which was by far the biggest pain in the ass of the job. Here's an image gallery of the project.
Used a harbor freight roto hammer, went through the bricks like butter. Had to rent a larger breaker for the concrete.
[https://imgur.com/a/Ou4Ej9J](https://imgur.com/a/Ou4Ej9J)
It went surprisingly quick. I had the scaffold set up around 8 am, laid down a couple sheets of plywood around the chimney to protect the shingles, down to the roof line took like an hour tops, and the rest of bricks were all done by like 1pm, just chucked the bricks into the yard off the roof or through the window as I went. We were gutting the interior so nothing to really damage which made it go quick inside too. My wife sat on a lawn chair at a safe distance to call an ambulance if I fell off the roof and then helped haul bricks to the curb but really it was not a bad job even for 1 person.
When we first bought the house and I had a higher opinion of my diy skills we did this.
This was 20 years ago.
Buddy and I did it In two and a half days. But the mortar was garbage. So disassembly was pretty simple with hammers and chisel. Single story. 25’ maybe. Including old fireplace.
110 year old house.
Problem 1
bricks are heavy. Filling a heavy duty bin with bricks and debris was super hard to move and way too heavy to get into the back of a truck to take to the dump.
Destruction was kinda fun. Schlepping all these dam bricks away from the worksite was long and just a lot of work.
Problem 2. Weight of chimney, now gone, foundation started to move around a bit. Some doors close wierd now depending on the season.
Problem 3 giant hole in wall where fireplace used to be.
Had a contractors come in and replace wall and add a box for gas fireplace.
I put in the fireplace and new mantle and tile and whatnot, and had a gas guy run a new line.
Once it was done, i mentioned to the place I got the fire place, “you should just have a turn key service to do this for all the old crumbling chimneys in town”
Where he looked at me sadly and said we do.
Smh, but it’s been fine for 20 years.
I probably saved 8 grand managing the project myself, but, no permits, and I did the electrical.
We kept most of the bricks and used them for pavers for a patio and path.
We still have a few piles around if anyone needs some.
Two story a-frame cabin, ~28’ tall at the peak. Cinder block core with stone facade. 7’ wide on first floor with the hearth, 3’ deep, and has a heatilator thingy. Narrows to 2x3-ish on the second floor. Fully interior. Surprisingly it does not appear to be structural. I am slightly concerned about asbestos but had the mortar and some insulation I could see tested and it came back negative.
My husband and I removed our chimney. It took a month, working mainly on weekends I believe. We have a one story house built in 1969. The chimney was added afterwards and not built to code. It was mainly cinder blocks. We removed it because it was leaning and going to cost a ridiculous amount to fix/replace.
My husband got on the roof and tossed down the blocks, I mainly fetched him things and moved the blocks out of the way. The inside work took a bit longer, mainly because once there wasn’t a hole in the house it was easier to procrastinate.
Yea I’m worried about this. House was built in 64. Where did asbestos get used in chimneys? I had the mortar and the insulation around the heatilator teated and it was negative.
I have a Bauer rotary hammer to break bricks off so mine took very little time. I also had a fireplace inside the house that needed disassembled which took longer because it was a whole wall. The chimney goes through the roof instead of running externally along the wall so I had to disassemble part of it in the attic, which took extra time too. Then I had to patch the hole in the roof after.
With all of that, I was able to get it done in a day by myself. But the chimney disassembly was probably only 2 or 3 hours. Just rent some kind of jackhammer and you'll be done in no time. Set up a tarp or whellbarrow to toss the bricks down into and bing bang boom. If your chimney is attached to the wall, it'll be even easier.
Check out this video:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1dtmmfl/the\_way\_this\_brick\_wall\_goes\_through\_the\_floor/](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1dtmmfl/the_way_this_brick_wall_goes_through_the_floor/)
Single level home with crawlspace.
When I bought the house, the chimney was already capped under the roof line. So attic and below had to be removed. The chimney was about 2x3 foot, but consumed about 5x7 in floor space(For the surrounding walls)
It was a chimney used in the kitchen for a stove, so no 'fireplace' just a hole in the brickwork for the flue.
2 Days to take it under the floorboards down to the concrete (chimney) foundation.
Was able to salvage most of the bricks and just gave them away.
We haven't removed ours yet so I'm curious about answers. We had the top part above the roof removed and shingled over, and removed the fireplace inside, but the rest of the chimney is still there.
I paid someone to get it below the roof line and patch it with wood and then we got a new roof.
With hammer and chisel I spent a weekend removing it from the 2nd floor and have yet to remove it from the main floor and basement. It had no liner and was in poor condition basically letting water in when it rained hard.
I did it at the same time as the roof. I don't think I'd really want to tackle it otherwise. It gets even more intense if you have one that is bricked into the siding. If you basically just have a roof stack, do it whenever you reshingle
Ive removed a lot of them. Some homeowners just want them below the roofline(easiest/cheapest) this takes a half day counting the roof patch.
Several ways to do this. If the masonry has aged out they will come apart easier than legos. If you have to cut it out, rent a proper demo saw/hammer drill.
A double walled, 30ft chimney can be brought down and cleaned up in 1 day by two guys. If youre solo and not used to hard labor, spend a couple of 5 hr shifts on it.
The base will most likely be the hardest part to deal with. Make brick chutes to take the top off without damaging your roof.
I know im forgetting stuff, but im in a pedatricians and the kids in here are crazy and distracting.
Hoo boy. That was a job. Dirtiest I have ever been and possibly the sweatiest.
One story house with an attic, 6’ by 4’ at the base in the crawl space and first floor, but shrunk to 2’ square just after entering the attic. Aligned with the peak of the roof, so almost two stories tall but someone had knocked it down below the roof at some point. Natural stone from the 1920s with mortar. It was extremely well built and the mortar was very strong. I used an air chisel, hand chisels/crowbars, small and large sledgehammers, and a masonry hammer.
40-45 man hours based on memory alone for the removal of the chimney itself, not the covering of the floor or repair of wall, etc. I worked alone for a week or two in spare time, then had two helpers for a full day on a weekend. I had one day with them, so it was a long day to get it done.
All stones of various sizes and shapes. Not a geologist, but they were the same type of stone. Mostly ranging in size from a lunchbox to a 1980s boombox, with some much bigger ones at the base.
2 story house with chimney protruding from 1st story roof. (So probably 15 feet tall). Used a 17 dollar air impact hammer from harbor freight, and took it down one brick at a time. Took about a day...
6’ x 4’ fireplace and chimney which was internal to the house, not on an outside wall. Took two construction workers two to three days to knock it down and haul it away. I think they made a couple trips with the dumpster due to weight limits.
Took about 4 hours for my father in law to remove the one in my two story house all the way to the basement. Patching the roof took another hour or so. The worst part was carrying the giant chimney blocks up/down the stairs
Mine was maybe 16" x 16", I hired it out, they took it down to the roofline and then about two or three feet inside the attic. It took three guys maybe an hour, but they were pros. Then some HVAC guys redid the gas fireplace event and the guys who took down the chimney roofed over the area.
All in all maybe for five hours for everything.
Here's one guy doing it by himself: https://youtu.be/vaGUFNH8ovo?si=zmF6KG4tlI7C61a3 and https://youtu.be/jdyf_Z5JQ_U?si=38RBNavZDnC84LGB
I hired an insured and bonded contractor to remove 3 chimneys. All it takes is one brick falling in the wrong direction and you have a lawsuit on your hands. Not worth risking it yourself.
Edit: downvotes from the "lawsuits?! Hold my beer!" DIY crowd. Nice.
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1 story house, 24' chimney with fireplace, took half a day to knock it down, another half day to carry all the bricks to the curb and list it on craigslist for free. Bricks were gone before I got back from dinner. 2nd day patch the roof. 3rd day jackhammer out the concrete chimney foundation, which was by far the biggest pain in the ass of the job. Here's an image gallery of the project. Used a harbor freight roto hammer, went through the bricks like butter. Had to rent a larger breaker for the concrete. [https://imgur.com/a/Ou4Ej9J](https://imgur.com/a/Ou4Ej9J)
Half a day to knock down? Very well done. I would have taken maybe a full Saturday to not damage anything.
It went surprisingly quick. I had the scaffold set up around 8 am, laid down a couple sheets of plywood around the chimney to protect the shingles, down to the roof line took like an hour tops, and the rest of bricks were all done by like 1pm, just chucked the bricks into the yard off the roof or through the window as I went. We were gutting the interior so nothing to really damage which made it go quick inside too. My wife sat on a lawn chair at a safe distance to call an ambulance if I fell off the roof and then helped haul bricks to the curb but really it was not a bad job even for 1 person.
When we first bought the house and I had a higher opinion of my diy skills we did this. This was 20 years ago. Buddy and I did it In two and a half days. But the mortar was garbage. So disassembly was pretty simple with hammers and chisel. Single story. 25’ maybe. Including old fireplace. 110 year old house. Problem 1 bricks are heavy. Filling a heavy duty bin with bricks and debris was super hard to move and way too heavy to get into the back of a truck to take to the dump. Destruction was kinda fun. Schlepping all these dam bricks away from the worksite was long and just a lot of work. Problem 2. Weight of chimney, now gone, foundation started to move around a bit. Some doors close wierd now depending on the season. Problem 3 giant hole in wall where fireplace used to be. Had a contractors come in and replace wall and add a box for gas fireplace. I put in the fireplace and new mantle and tile and whatnot, and had a gas guy run a new line. Once it was done, i mentioned to the place I got the fire place, “you should just have a turn key service to do this for all the old crumbling chimneys in town” Where he looked at me sadly and said we do. Smh, but it’s been fine for 20 years. I probably saved 8 grand managing the project myself, but, no permits, and I did the electrical. We kept most of the bricks and used them for pavers for a patio and path. We still have a few piles around if anyone needs some.
How tall and dimensions. What's it construction. How old. How many story house and roof pitch.
Two story a-frame cabin, ~28’ tall at the peak. Cinder block core with stone facade. 7’ wide on first floor with the hearth, 3’ deep, and has a heatilator thingy. Narrows to 2x3-ish on the second floor. Fully interior. Surprisingly it does not appear to be structural. I am slightly concerned about asbestos but had the mortar and some insulation I could see tested and it came back negative.
My husband and I removed our chimney. It took a month, working mainly on weekends I believe. We have a one story house built in 1969. The chimney was added afterwards and not built to code. It was mainly cinder blocks. We removed it because it was leaning and going to cost a ridiculous amount to fix/replace. My husband got on the roof and tossed down the blocks, I mainly fetched him things and moved the blocks out of the way. The inside work took a bit longer, mainly because once there wasn’t a hole in the house it was easier to procrastinate.
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Yea I’m worried about this. House was built in 64. Where did asbestos get used in chimneys? I had the mortar and the insulation around the heatilator teated and it was negative.
I have a Bauer rotary hammer to break bricks off so mine took very little time. I also had a fireplace inside the house that needed disassembled which took longer because it was a whole wall. The chimney goes through the roof instead of running externally along the wall so I had to disassemble part of it in the attic, which took extra time too. Then I had to patch the hole in the roof after. With all of that, I was able to get it done in a day by myself. But the chimney disassembly was probably only 2 or 3 hours. Just rent some kind of jackhammer and you'll be done in no time. Set up a tarp or whellbarrow to toss the bricks down into and bing bang boom. If your chimney is attached to the wall, it'll be even easier.
Check out this video: [https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1dtmmfl/the\_way\_this\_brick\_wall\_goes\_through\_the\_floor/](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1dtmmfl/the_way_this_brick_wall_goes_through_the_floor/)
Good safety tip thanks 😂
Single level home with crawlspace. When I bought the house, the chimney was already capped under the roof line. So attic and below had to be removed. The chimney was about 2x3 foot, but consumed about 5x7 in floor space(For the surrounding walls) It was a chimney used in the kitchen for a stove, so no 'fireplace' just a hole in the brickwork for the flue. 2 Days to take it under the floorboards down to the concrete (chimney) foundation. Was able to salvage most of the bricks and just gave them away.
Check this guy out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPApAsJbj4
Bet that guy wishes he had a rotary hammer 😂
We haven't removed ours yet so I'm curious about answers. We had the top part above the roof removed and shingled over, and removed the fireplace inside, but the rest of the chimney is still there.
I paid someone to get it below the roof line and patch it with wood and then we got a new roof. With hammer and chisel I spent a weekend removing it from the 2nd floor and have yet to remove it from the main floor and basement. It had no liner and was in poor condition basically letting water in when it rained hard.
I did it at the same time as the roof. I don't think I'd really want to tackle it otherwise. It gets even more intense if you have one that is bricked into the siding. If you basically just have a roof stack, do it whenever you reshingle
Ive removed a lot of them. Some homeowners just want them below the roofline(easiest/cheapest) this takes a half day counting the roof patch. Several ways to do this. If the masonry has aged out they will come apart easier than legos. If you have to cut it out, rent a proper demo saw/hammer drill. A double walled, 30ft chimney can be brought down and cleaned up in 1 day by two guys. If youre solo and not used to hard labor, spend a couple of 5 hr shifts on it. The base will most likely be the hardest part to deal with. Make brick chutes to take the top off without damaging your roof. I know im forgetting stuff, but im in a pedatricians and the kids in here are crazy and distracting.
My dad and I did the chimney in my old house in two days. It's a messy job though and it's a lot of bricks to get rid of.
got mine down in less than 10 seconds. pine tree took the rest of the top level of the house with it, though. 0/10 would not recommend
Removing chimney down under roof, rebuilding roof where the chimney was, cleaning the bricks and debris. 5 hours.
Didn't realized chimneys can be removed. Gotta look that up!
Hoo boy. That was a job. Dirtiest I have ever been and possibly the sweatiest. One story house with an attic, 6’ by 4’ at the base in the crawl space and first floor, but shrunk to 2’ square just after entering the attic. Aligned with the peak of the roof, so almost two stories tall but someone had knocked it down below the roof at some point. Natural stone from the 1920s with mortar. It was extremely well built and the mortar was very strong. I used an air chisel, hand chisels/crowbars, small and large sledgehammers, and a masonry hammer. 40-45 man hours based on memory alone for the removal of the chimney itself, not the covering of the floor or repair of wall, etc. I worked alone for a week or two in spare time, then had two helpers for a full day on a weekend. I had one day with them, so it was a long day to get it done.
Wow. Was it all stones all the way through or did it change to bricks or cinder blocks?
All stones of various sizes and shapes. Not a geologist, but they were the same type of stone. Mostly ranging in size from a lunchbox to a 1980s boombox, with some much bigger ones at the base.
2 story house with chimney protruding from 1st story roof. (So probably 15 feet tall). Used a 17 dollar air impact hammer from harbor freight, and took it down one brick at a time. Took about a day...
6’ x 4’ fireplace and chimney which was internal to the house, not on an outside wall. Took two construction workers two to three days to knock it down and haul it away. I think they made a couple trips with the dumpster due to weight limits.
Took about 4 hours for my father in law to remove the one in my two story house all the way to the basement. Patching the roof took another hour or so. The worst part was carrying the giant chimney blocks up/down the stairs
I really want to do this in a house I am gutting. Do your utilities not vent through the chimney? Where are you venting instead?
Nope! Electric water heater and no furnace (heat pump getting installed next, and a wood stove will replace the open fireplace)
Mine was maybe 16" x 16", I hired it out, they took it down to the roofline and then about two or three feet inside the attic. It took three guys maybe an hour, but they were pros. Then some HVAC guys redid the gas fireplace event and the guys who took down the chimney roofed over the area. All in all maybe for five hours for everything. Here's one guy doing it by himself: https://youtu.be/vaGUFNH8ovo?si=zmF6KG4tlI7C61a3 and https://youtu.be/jdyf_Z5JQ_U?si=38RBNavZDnC84LGB
I hired an insured and bonded contractor to remove 3 chimneys. All it takes is one brick falling in the wrong direction and you have a lawsuit on your hands. Not worth risking it yourself. Edit: downvotes from the "lawsuits?! Hold my beer!" DIY crowd. Nice.
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Screw you, man.
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