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Start from the top down! Who needs a fireplace and Chimney in Houston?
In comes skylight
It was a nice day at least
Frame it
Close it
Waterproof
We're ready for rain!
The offending structure. Seriously, who thought it was a genius idea building a 5x5 ft solid brick fireplace in the middle of the room??
Girlfriend hard at work. Calm down you thirsy bastards
Dat ass
"Welcome to my house, this is our fireplace!" - every owner since 1978
Yep, it's solid
My man Popeye came to help, Good friend! I'm pretty sure he didn't know what he was getting into (no one did)
Getting there
Found a 12pack of beer mortared into the thing lol. Pillows we're to catch bricks as we knocked them out of the attic and dropped them down the chute
Hulk smash
Bam
Cut out gas line (it was shut off and plugged before we started- important!)
Not seen: massive amounts of dust
My hole.
Frame it
Sheetrock
GF looking busy, but I ended up mudding
Kitchen to come in a month or so!
I'm guessing 5-10 cu. yards of brick total. Should have got dumpster here before...ugh
meencontreconunarusaquesabiaquenataliaoreiroerauruguaya
"Back away you thirsty bastard.." *proceeds to show ass
MisterWho
I hope you didn't miss the opportunity to sing "She's a brick... hoouuse!"
kholli
Post an ad on craigslist for free bricks. People on craigslist love free shit.
SciFiGuy2018
Build a barbecue with the excess bricks! This is in Texas, right?! Man up!
Ac1dBurn72
But... It really tied the room togetherd
ATribeofAfricanNatives
we've got a rug, no worries
Theinternetwasinventedforveryimportantscience
Did you check with an engineer? Because that might be load-bearing...
TempusFugitive
not likely if it was built in 78. modern brickwork (basically post-war) is pretty much exclusively facade.
icecreamlorry
Cubic yards?!?! Y'all americans are wild.
somnif
Yard is roughly our version of meter. 1 yard = ~.92 meters (so 1 cubic yard ~= 0.76 cubic meter)
trigirl48
Sad you didn't put in an actual skylight. Would have looked great.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
too damn hot in Texas
friggenjeebus
Where will you make your sacrifices now?
yacko69
you should have sealed off the area and used an exhaust fan to control dust.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Hindsight is 20/20
ddriscoll3
Well if woman don’t find you handsome...they should at least find you handy...
ddriscoll3
*women
fuzznubbin
I would have left the stripper pole!
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Damn... You have a point
TooFewGuitars
I had to do that same thing to my parents house. Sooooooo much more brick than I ever thought possible
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Man, where did it come from?
TooFewGuitars
I have no idea but I overloaded an 18' dump trailer with it all of it. Huge mess too. But it's way better now
ATribeofAfricanNatives
We got the dumpster and loaded today and it's a bit over 10 cubic yards. Insane
Daddygivesthebestmassages
That was dumb of the architect to put a fucking fireplace six feet from the front door
PenguinFury
It created a foyer while placing an essential heating element to the central of the house. It made sense.
AlwaysLateToComment
That would have been my motivation to rip it out. You have to walk around it to get inside???
SociallyAwkwardCanadianMoose
Chimney fire right next to the exit, not good
TheOnlyOriginalScreenNameLeft
As a person without a fireplace or chimney I find this project offensive.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Totally would have welcome you over to pick it up =D
RenegadeSci
How come everyone in south Texas, or south Houston, has a friend called Popeye? I'm no different, but when did it become law?
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Everyone needs a Popeye in their life
RenegadeSci
I've had a Popeye, but never in the central cast. We also have Chewy, Bubba, Slimer, and La-lo.
yodadude
If I remember right, the pink wood is treated to resist fire
ATribeofAfricanNatives
No idea, i thought it was just a marketing gimmick for "locally sourced"
DrTaylerMD
shit well who doesn't want a huge monolith in front of their door, middle of the room, really opens up possibilities.
MissSpelledTattoo
Slows down the SWAT when they do a raid. Now you've lost precious seconds!
xj4low
Gives a solid brace with an added 2x4 between the door and fireplace for swat, raptors, or zombies.
Spiralhaze
News Report: Waether experts predict record winter for Texas.
Impossibrew
it's Houston that may mean a whole week below 40 degrees.
RubberChickenTenders
I'm guessing new carpet in the living room?
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Yup, wood floors at least.
slipmagt
"Back away you thirsty bastards" but before you go, check out dat ass.
griffonsgalore
She got a dusty booty too! I love seeing my wife dirty from construction/gardening. We've got a little homestead and damn we get dirty.
MVPHingleMcCringleBerry
So is she single?
shiyal
pontiacgirl75
As a straight married lady, damn she has a nice booty @op
dingdongtittytwinkle
Great job but what moron put a fireplace there in the first place?!
yacko69
was a design feature i'm guessing... there putting them in new houses these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJEmM5biJ1w
sammyismycat
Make sense if it's another room on the other side, not the freaking front door. lol
malikcarr
It's a good central heat source, for the bitter Texas winters. Srsly though this design is good for heating and bad for everything else.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
We couldn't figure that out either. The thing was massive, the living room is only 15x12 and the chimney was 6ftx5ft in the middle of it!
OdinYggd
Its likely that the house interior had been redone at some point, leaving the fireplace orphaned in the middle of the room.
OdinYggd
Normally a massive fireplace like that would have been part of a wall, but later addons and rearrangements left it where it was.
Sphinxycat
What about Santa ?
Sphinxycat
And you don’t even need that now. Whooops
Rubyredslippers33
He's got a magic key that can open any homes door. DUH
ATribeofAfricanNatives
That guy only brought me coal, what gives?
khensu83
Cause you knocked down his fireplace, duh.
MrFnortner
Pressure's off. No need to be nice now.
PulpyOJ
He has to use the front door like everyone else.
excellentsamuraid
As heating goes that was the best place to have had it.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
I feel like the 2ft thick brick wall surrounding the chute would insulate the fire from actually radiating heat into the house lol
Kahedhros
The opposite. All that bricks holds heat
PenguinFury
Also creates a foyer while sectioning the front door from the living room. It is a legit design but "open" concepts are the new thing.
igobeder
We don't want to see your hole, TMI. +1
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Don't lie, I know what you really want
Fatboy333
No dumpster: stack them at the end of your drive way for at least a day or two. Contractors passing by might take them away.
Yaysh
It's amazing what kinda junk people will take from the end of driveway just because it's free, although that much brick could come in handy.
griffonsgalore
For real. They take anything, especially if it has even the smallest amount of metal.
TimTruck
That ughh wasn't structural? Because it looks like it was structural.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Nope, fireplaces we're not allowed to be structural in 1978
TimTruck
Hahaha I wouldn't count on that preventing anyone from making one structural in 1978. Where's Mike Holmes when you need him.
ministryofpeace
Given the beer that was in there, hopefully it was a diy afterthought than an original builders construction
thebestimgurian
on a side note , just because something was not allowed doesn't mean they didn't do it ... specialy in the 70s :)))
iguessihaveto
Especially in Texas.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
From what I can tell, the fireplace did not bear any weight at all. What makes you think it was structural?
TempusFugitive
I doubt it was intended to be structural (modern brickwork basically never is) but your roofline does appear to dip where the chimney was...
ATribeofAfricanNatives
Good eye! it does dip a little, shouldn't affect waterproofing but ill check it out next time it rains
DownVoteVerifier
Just jump in the roof an wedge in a few support beams on the angle to push it up and one across to spread the load.
nero4ty2
just curious, what was the pole?
sheebalasvegas
gas main
Alconium
Gas line
TimTruck
It looks like the joists go left to right, they interrupted 3 possibly 4 of them. The interrupted ones load the adjacent joists, which need
TimTruck
To be doubled, spacing looks like 24"centers which reduces the capacity. No second floor so maybe it's fine. Wouldn't pass where I live
ATribeofAfricanNatives
This is good insight, thanks!
pauli133
If you'd left the gas line on, you could have sped up the demolition process immensely.
sc363
Was it gas? I missed that, looked like wood burning.
sheebalasvegas
#lifehack
Yaysh
OneNameHere
Who cares about fireballs? Texas loves those wildfires.
ministryofpeace
charlietrundlethegreat
Hooch is crazy
CyanideSynn1221
Mr mosely???
horseman05
MichaelIronsidesDismemberedLimbs
ATribeofAfricanNatives
I feel like everything else but that fireplace would have been removed
PaulyParker
behind7proxies
But your spider infestation would have also been taken care of.
TheOneAndOnlyButtStabber
As someone whos only job as a kid was shingling, you did a dam good job.
cancerriddenlung
Don't forget to sell the bricks
hardhart
Good job supervising and documenting the manual labor of your buddy and gf
fbutt09
Like all good partners. Sacrifices needed to be made.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
You're damn right
ImLukeSkywalkerImHereToRescueYou
Sorry friend, but you pointed it out, so I enjoyed that ass, and that transformation.
CongratsYouAreHereNow
i thought you were going to make a skylight
Petedoit
"in comes skylight" okay cool... "close it" seems counterproductive, but alright.
CongratsYouAreHereNow
Only if you assume they’ll always want it closed
CongratsYouAreHereNow
But alright
Alanslays
U got work cucked