The world would be a better place if we had more competent tradesmen like you. I'm dying to find an honest mason to repair our 13 year old chimney. I wish I could get you to come to Connecticut. Because of you, I have been able to have an intelligent conversation with a couple of masons, but my BS meter went off and I'm still on the hunt for an honest guy like yourself. If we could only clone you....
getting set up to work comfortable makes a worl of diffrence. i have worked off ladders all my life most of the time in not ideal conditions your set ups are great.
A quality job is all about the setup, isn't it? Always nice to see a professional who knows what they are doing, but more importantly, WHY they are doing it!
Hi Chad, thanks for the video, always interesting (longtime viewer, first time commenter...). I was trying to upload a photo as I thought you would be interested. We just had the kitchen demo'd in my 1939 cape outside Boston. The back and side of the chimney are now exposed. All the brickwork is parged very thoroughly--except for the one and a half bricks that were somehow pulled out leading to the sooty grapefruit size hole in the exposed flu liner (hot water heater flu). It looks like it's been that way since 1939 or maybe since some work was done in the 90's. Very strange--I'd love to know how something like that would happen...? Cheers, Raphael
Hey Chad thanks for the info! I am building an exterior chimney for a wood stove thats in a basement. Using clay liners and concrete block. WIll put fieldstone over block. The last one I built was 30 years ago. Can you do a film on that. Specifically is there an airgap between the plywood wall and external masonry. If so can i fill that with truck wool. Ties into plywood how often ? How to go through basement wall?
The world would be a better place if we had more competent tradesmen like you. I'm dying to find an honest mason to repair our 13 year old chimney. I wish I could get you to come to Connecticut. Because of you, I have been able to have an intelligent conversation with a couple of masons, but my BS meter went off and I'm still on the hunt for an honest guy like yourself. If we could only clone you....
getting set up to work comfortable makes a worl of diffrence. i have worked off ladders all my life most of the time in not ideal conditions your set ups are great.
A quality job is all about the setup, isn't it? Always nice to see a professional who knows what they are doing, but more importantly, WHY they are doing it!
Thanks, buddy!
Hi Chad, thanks for the video, always interesting (longtime viewer, first time commenter...). I was trying to upload a photo as I thought you would be interested. We just had the kitchen demo'd in my 1939 cape outside Boston. The back and side of the chimney are now exposed. All the brickwork is parged very thoroughly--except for the one and a half bricks that were somehow pulled out leading to the sooty grapefruit size hole in the exposed flu liner (hot water heater flu). It looks like it's been that way since 1939 or maybe since some work was done in the 90's. Very strange--I'd love to know how something like that would happen...? Cheers, Raphael
That does sound strange. If you can post a pic to r/chimneyrepair, on reddit, I'll take a look later tonight.
Hey Chad thanks for the info! I am building an exterior chimney for a wood stove thats in a basement. Using clay liners and concrete block. WIll put fieldstone over block. The last one I built was 30 years ago. Can you do a film on that. Specifically is there an airgap between the plywood wall and external masonry. If so can i fill that with truck wool. Ties into plywood how often ? How to go through basement wall?
Man that's going to be a good lead flashing video, not alot of cleaning to get started, if you do a video?
Now all you need is a Beta Hoist for moving your material up.
One nail can hold 500 pounds.
I heard one nail can hold 800 lbs.