How To Remove A Chimney
Dec/06/07 11:28 PM
It looks like good Ol’ St. Nick won’t be visiting us this year. Apparently I have to have our chimney ripped out by this weekend. Randy Johnson of Johnson Bros. Foundation Specialists, called and said he was ready to get started on Monday morning and that I have to have the chimney out by then. So last night I took a hammer and a masonry chisel and I managed to chisel out ONE brick! Needless to say it took me about 30 minutes and on top of all that my arm was sore this morning from doing so. Realizing this is not the way to do it, I did what anyone else would do... I looked it up on the internet. This is how it is supposed to go down.
1.) Rent a hammer drill with masonry bit
2.) Work from the top down
3.) Hire some chump to haul out the bricks
4.) Sweet-talk wife into sweeping up the mess
5.) Patch the roof
Piece of cake, right? I’ll let you know how it goes...