Great work! Im having my steels fitted at present. I need that same 15mm plate but my builder said you can only get a 350mm wide plate. The rsj is 200mm and the chimney stack is 300mm. Can you get a 500mm plate? Thanks.
@Red viking that was the structural design by the engineer. So we just follow the design. I too think the back plate was over engineered. But I agree. Gallows brackets are a waste of time, the party walls in the chimney area are way too brittle
@Red viking all correct. 100 years of fire heat make the brick brittle so you don’t have good fixings for the gallows brackets. Safer with the steels and a 15mm thick steel plate
Best chimney breast removal video I’ve seen so far, there’s to many “experts” using blue tac and chewy and recon it’ll never come down.
heavy iron required to keep them up these days
How did you get the beeam with plate attached under the chimney stack without the props getting in the way?
Nice work!!!
Great job- what was the size of the rsj used ? Thanks
Great work! Im having my steels fitted at present. I need that same 15mm plate but my builder said you can only get a 350mm wide plate. The rsj is 200mm and the chimney stack is 300mm. Can you get a 500mm plate? Thanks.
Were the brackets insufficient to support the chimney?
Correct
@Red viking that was the structural design by the engineer. So we just follow the design. I too think the back plate was over engineered. But I agree. Gallows brackets are a waste of time, the party walls in the chimney area are way too brittle
@Red viking all correct. 100 years of fire heat make the brick brittle so you don’t have good fixings for the gallows brackets. Safer with the steels and a 15mm thick steel plate
Why not just remove the chimney?
We could not remove the stack as this was a ground floor flat in a split house conversion.
@@DiligentdevelopmentsUk Gotcha,thx
Looks ugly
Once plastered it'll look fine.
There is literally nothing else you could do and this is a very well done job.