With a lot of work and a good deal of time you should be able to safely take the chimney down and reclaim the inside of your house.
Tear down chimney to roof liner.
Leaks and structural damage are the most common reasons for wanting to remove a chimney stack and in such cases you will have the option of simply covering over the rest of an unused chimney when you extend the roof over the gap left by the stack.
Here s what it looks like when sped up like crazy.
Rent an electric demolition hammer.
Now lower the flex liner assembly down through chimney it is recommended to use two people when installing the liner through the chimney.
Take your time act.
This video shows the chimney removal of a small single skin chimney stack below roof level and then tiled over to make good.
The method shown is a slow del.
Even if all this is true in your case we recommend hiring a professional to remove your chimney to ensure it.
This old chimney had to go.
We removed a fireplace from a house we have been working on.
If you re thinking about tearing a chimney down below the roof line the chimney must be located in the middle of the house.
Before lowering the flex liner and tee body down the chimney insert the tee snout pipe coming off the tee that goes through the wall into the opening in your masonry chimney.