Starting to take some walls out (Self Build Extension Part 5)
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2022
- It’s week 3 for our brickie on our self build extension - let’s see how things are going! Started demolishing some walls in preparation for the knock-through.
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They put us the shame don't they Andy, the speed at which some of the trades go>>>>>>>so fast!
Tell me about it! I can lay bricks (badly) but it takes me forever! 🙄😂
I was forever bashing my head until 1, I stopped wearing a cap and 2, had upper blepharoplasty (eye lid lift due to droopy eye lids). My upper peripheral vision improved massively and my poor hurting forehead is damage free
I'm glad you let us all know the bits that don't go as smoothly, great learning curve for us!
Cheers - glad you're enjoying it!
Use the nook for bog roll storage
I continue to be amazed at all the work and pre planning this demo requires. Can't help but think of the men who did the original work all those years ago. Be well :)
Yup! It's quite a complicated one. No wonder no builder wanted to touch it. 😂
Get a long 8mm drill bit and drill from outside 3 holes in each brick on your line down then when you remove the top internal bricks (not bonded) just use a booster or brick named to tap tops of each brick as you go down and they will break off we have had to do this plenty on abutments , you can then clean it up with eyes with but of mortar if needed💪💪
Fred Dibnah would be proud of you the way you work that hammer and chisel!!!!!
Fred was awesome! 👍😁
@@GosforthHandyman He was indeed I still watch his dvd's.
A reminder of why hard hats are required for visitors and workers at most construction sites!
Too right! 👍
@@GosforthHandyman I once crossed some tape in an open area of grass and was screamed at for not wearing a hard hat. No building, materials or machinery of any kind. It seems these people were there to measure the ground. They put up tapes and then started yelling at people. Wonderful for a jobsworth bully. It seems red and white stripy tape makes the grass a building site regardless of whether signs are up or not.
Get yourself a bump cap. Cheap as chips and saves your noggin.
I've got one! Looks like I'm off horse riding so I never wear it. Mrs Mac shouts at me about this quite a lot. 😂
Puts me in mind of Fred Dibnah dropping that chimney one brick at a time, lobbing the bricks down into a skip, sitting on the very wall he was breaking up. But then I don't think he ever saw a Health and Safety manual in his life - unless it was on a bit of string, hanging in the outside privvy!
Too right Keith! He was a hero. 👍👍
Just make your nook taller, frame it out, add some cabinet doors and you've got a fantastic storage cabinet for extra toiletries, paper products, etc. I would love extra storage like that in my bathroom!
Unfortunately there's a huge concrete lintel at the top of the nook. Taking it out would destroy the internal wall. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman could always just hang se floating shelves or piece of art over it when you're done and just have a lower storage cabinet maybe?
@@GosforthHandyman Would it be possible to cut the concrete lintel? If you took out the outer wall above it you could then drill through it in a series of holes and break off the outer part. Probably be more work than it's worth but might help make the nook usable space. (feel free to tell me I'm being stupid, I'm a stage spark so don't deal with concrete and brickwork much except for punching holes in it when needed)
Think it would be worth renting a ladder hoist to get those blocks up onto the first lift. Cheap to hire and compact enough to get into the back garden.
I agree with Nick about the bump cap. Hard hats are cheap as well, but 'stick up' a lot making it MORE likely you'd whack your head. The hat would protect your head, but, speaking from experience, it does nothing to protect your neck from the sudden unexpected shock.
Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing. :)
Never heard of them! Can't stand hard hats, like you say with the neck twisting. I will have to get myself one.
Struggled to find anywhere locally with a ladder hoist or anything similar! Did try. 👍
Brilliant patience and brilliant filming. Legend. Haway man.
Cheers bud!
Bumblee type bees, is that the technical wording for them? Keep the videos coming, it's getting exciting now...
Wow, that is looking good and progress is moving on. Well done.
Cheers Tahir - ploughing on!
Brilliant work and thanks for sharing this with us take care
Cheers bud!
A lot done since the last update!
You could use that nook for the toilet reservoir?
To knock the inner wall out where you cannot get in with the grinder you could use a long drill bit and drill a row of holes right against the cut, so the holes do line up with that wall on the inside.
Then it's easier to knock the wall out without knocking everything loose.
It's in the wrong place for a toilet reservoir unfortunately, did think that though! 👍
Good lad you're really getting through it. Keep on, keeping on!
Ploughing on!
Thats some undertaking Andy. You seem cool about it so look forward to the next vid. 👍👍
Cheers Doug - ploughing on!
Diamond blade is good for tricky bricks. Neat finish.
Another Great "Real World" video! Just knowin what to expect when you chop bits of wall out is a great help! Thanks!
Cheers! They're amazingly solid these houses.
That's a proper beast that cutter isn't it..! I like the fact it offers dust suppression too!
It's mostly great... really need the dust suppression with those bricks! 😁
@@GosforthHandyman what don't you like about it?
Aren't they heavy though the cutters and to move the pole loosen the the horizontal part of the clip only and tap it left or right using my 2lb universal spanner less likely that the scaffold will drop then
Enjoying the videos
Terrific work
Cheers!
wow - you are a pro. I wish to get to this level one day! I am in the 2nd year of our renovation. Maybe with the next house. Mabe a two houses later !
Fantastic stuff - best of luck with yours!
Enjoyed that - some head scratching there, nice progress. Must be all done now😉. Best Regards.👍
Cheers! Waiting on windows! 👍😁
great love seeing how your doing, your Brickie is spoiled having you. On the deck off the deck move the deck on the deck brings back humping block memories. glad it's memories lol
Cheers bud! Yeah, moving those blocks kept us fit for a few weeks! 😁
Now's the time to cause damage if you're going to! Better to have to re-plaster at the same time as all the new plastering than think "I should have …" If it was for me I'd have it down and get the extra 200 mils. But it's your house, your call. Good luck & best wishes, Jeroen.
Cheers bud! Internal plastering was done well before this - so for 200mm it's not really worth the hassle / disruption. 👍
1:00 thats why we dont throw away foam packaging in boxes ,cut to size and pop over bolts with some ties
Defo!
I’d definitely have used that one pole as an excuse to buy myself a podger 😆
Quite a testament to that old brickwork, that it's so hard to remove.
Too right! It's not until you try to remove a single brick from an old wall like this that you realise how solid these houses are. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman Removing a single brick is almost always hard, even if the mortar is just plain mud (clay mortar). That stuff has zero tensile strength but in a joint with plenty of weight on top it can't go anywhere.
I did a complete lounge floor, it’s not difficult if you look at others work and check the requirements. I spent about £900 instead of £4,500, it just took me a while to check as I went along. Your extension is looking great so far, Alan looks to be a good brickie!
Cheers! Allan knows his stuff! 😁
Marching on!
Getting there! 👍
Small plastering job on the inside. just take the bricks out to make life easy.
When you step it through it actually turns in to a huge and very expensive job. 👍
Thanks for taking me on this journey with you, Andy and I would hardly call what you are doing ‘fumbling around’. How do you know a drummer is knocking on your door? The raps get faster 😂🌞
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Don't know if its been mentioned already, but you can get a brick cutting blade for a reciprocating saw. Might be worth looking into for the corner of that inner wall.
Cheers Andrew! I've got a diamond blade for it but these bricks are just too hard - doesn't make a dent unfortunately. 🙄
I think it would be easier to take out the rest of the brick on the exterior, your already taking down like 70% of the wall. It would make it easier to set one long sill plate down to set the floor joists on. Less bolting to a vertical wall, let gravity be your friend. Not only that a little bit bigger bathroom is never bad in my book.
Keep up the good work mate!👍
And just accept you may have to replaster the other side??
Cheers bud! There would need to be a pillar for the steel. 👍
Your nook could turn into a faux fireplace, since it's floor level. Also since you're starting with a blank canvas, have u thought about adding a "secret room"? Hidden behind a bookcase or something? Cool to make, cool to have!🐧💕
Screwfix sell a bump cap which is a baseball cap with a light plastic insert great for working in confined spaces. Scaffolds in public places have armadillos on the scaffold clips to stop you catching them and getting a scabby noggin!.
Ah look at that! That's what we needed! Cheers, didn't know what they were called. www.scaffoldingsales.co.uk/product/scaffolding-armadillo/ 👍
Never noticed that arch over the (kitchen?) door, nice that.
Yeah, it was partially covered up. Uncovered and repaired it. 👍
Nooice!
Instead of trying to fit a ledger board where the old window was , cut pockets out at 400 centres and pigeon hole the joist, that way you aren't trying to get a fixing into an uneven surface and where the pockets land chain drill the brick far enough back to get a good bearing for the joist and hopefully that way you won't disturb the plaster on the inside. When the joists are at the right centres pack them level with slate then stap them with a baton.
Any gaps in the pockets can be packed with slate tight to the side of the joist and pointed up.
Did consider this but the ledger was absolutely fine in the end. 👍
Definitely keep the nook
If it was above basin level I would have been tempted! 👍
Andy save a few decent bricks from the knock throw to repair the cement patches around the pipe opening, anyway coming along nicely 👍👍👍
I've saved ALL the decent bricks. 😁👍
@@GosforthHandyman thought you would 👍🎯
A nook in the bathroom sounds like a good idea. Maybe put up some glass shelves and you’ve got a great place for shampoo and shower gel bottles etc. If it’s too low couldn’t you just continue it upward and make it taller?
There's a giant concrete lintel at the top of that window so you couldn't really make it any higher unfortunately. 👍
I got a great tip from a friend after I walked onto the back of his truck and whacked my head on the hoist gantry he has in the back for loading/unloading skip sacks of firewood. He simply told me to turn my cap around so that the peak is pointing backwards when on-site or doing any work where there are things to bash your head on but wouldn't have a hard hat on. It has made a big difference, the peak obscures just enough vision that we don't see obstructions until it's too late..
It's a very good point! I bash my head mostly since I have reduced field of vision above my eyes. 👍👍
Happens all the time with hard hats, you think you've ducked enough but no, many a cut head and the the bell ringing
Hard hat for sure but more important something without a brim limiting your upper visual range. Radiator in the nook? Recessed cabinet for toilet paper storage? Looking good!
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Hello Andy you have come such a long way since i started watching you about a year ago. I note that your 1920s house has a wall cavity, whereas mine doesn't which is very interesting.
i think they only became common in 20/30s
This is a 1920's house which making it even more surprising to me. Seems like most houses around my way (Liverpool) are solid walls well into 1930's. My house was built 1934 with solid walls and was bombed during the war but was rebuilt with solid walls again.
@@Game0verFool yes the same in Derby, mine was built in 1936 without a cavity or a dpc. Also built on the piss, but that's another story.
Yup - was very pleasantly surprised to find the cavity walls in a 1920's house! Would have been state of the art at the time. 👍😁
@@GosforthHandyman must be a posh area 🤣 mines a 1930s also no cavity about to tackle the final room at the end of the month. The lounge. Finally get rid of the polystyrene tiles on the ceiling
Interesting to see how much the cavity wall insulation had settled. How bad was it?
if that nook is low down can use it as a semi integrated cupboard storage or something ( i know this video was recorded months ago )
Yeah, was thinking that... but it's exactly where the basin needs to go. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman can be under/behind the basin for easy access plumbing hide the valve behind some hatch doors and still make a small nook cupboard from it ? just speculation for fun :)
Yep.! Scaffolding nuts are a right pain.! I insist they are covered with plastic caps.! Scaffolder moans about it but tuff.!!!
I reckon that cutter will take a neat notch out of those bricks
It's just too big to get in and the dust is incredible without water suppression. 👍😁
your baseball cap is obstructing your peripheral vision, hence the headbumps...ask me how i know..
Can we see some live work. Great job so far
Live work as in current? Or just me working? A bit more up to date on Instagram! 👍
Concrete and Masonry chainsaw would be handy for the outside walls
Never seen one on hire around here! Yes, that would have done it! Not sure it would get through those old bricks mind. 👍
Awesome clips .. keep it up. I have a question, do they accept creating an overhead sit area above an extension when building an extension in UK?
Cheers! Yes, like a balcony on top of the rear extension roof? Potentially but it would depend on privacy for neighbours, so would need approval through planning permission. 👍
I must admit, I really wouldn’t be worried about the plaster on the inside for the amount of work you are creating for the outside work….
I think it'd be less hassle and a better overall job to take the whole wall down. Rebuild the pillar for the steel in block and do some replastering if needed
Not really that simple and you have to work out a) would it add any value to the property (no) and would it add any value to us (no) so off the table.
👍 hadn’t realised there was a lintel that spanned the two skins. That’d be a ball ache to sort
Looks like it was a Tree Bee nest, they often nest high up in some form of medium such as birds nests and insulation. No bees in England are protected.
Could be! They look like bumble bees... but not quite as big. Appear around spring and swarm around the entrance - only 20 or so.
Sounds like carpenter bees. They can drill holes in wood soffits and fascia at an alarming rate.
Nobody cares if they die and you would be doing the world a favor by getting rid of them!
@@freetolook3727 Very unlikely to be carpenter bees in Gosforth. There are a couple of European species, but only the violet carpenter bee Xylocopa violacea (the largest!) occurs in the UK, and it's only started to arrive from France in the last few years due to climate change. In any case, carpenter bees are solitary - they may occur in colonies where there is suitable habitat like dead wood to bore into, but they don't form nests like social bees (honey bees & bumble bees). From the size, this looks like a bumblebee nest - they never have more than about 200 workers, usually fewer.
Honey bees form typical honeycomb, and their nests can be much larger and sometimes are reused over years. My family had an old house in Kent where honey bees nested in a disused chimney. After many years, so much honey accumulated that it began to ooze through the walls, a horrible sticky goo mixed with soot!
Bombus hypnorum, aka Tree bee 🐝👍
Cut the inside brick with lots of 8-10mm drill holes then the bricks will cut easy that’s how we do it
exactly
Some lucky hammer hits also sorts this. 😁👍
That nook could hold the tank and frame for a wall hung toilet
It's in the wrong place for the toilet unfortunately. 👍
If you don't need a full safety helmet, then tool-station has bump caps at not much money item 14074 . also other places, I guess
Would love to have seen Mrs Mac carting heavy blocks around
Ha I bet 😜
You talk about avoiding thermal bridging by opening the cavity at the corners, but doesn't your bricked up window reveal bridge the cavity?
Yes, but that's an internal wall. 👍
@27:10 Plaster work is cheap and easy to repair. It's strictly cosmetic and in construction, anything cosmetic can be fixed a lot easier than anything structural.
It's half way up a staircase and very difficult to access from the inside.
Hi sir it’s going at a pace now , I did wonder at the proposed root for the boiler flue and has it been accepted? . Best wishes and kind regards 😀👍
Yup - all good and signed off! 👍😁
28:28 You could cut horizontal parallel grooves at the depth you need and then chisel out the soldier course and tiles to the required depth. So cut into the bricks from the front, left to right, start from the top and then every 2 cm or so cut another groove, it doesn't have to be precise as long as you go deep enough and make plenty of cuts to hog away most of the material. Cut a centerline into the front edge of the tiles, so you can easily chisel the front ridge off without risking too much unwanted damage. The result may be somewhat rough. Then render the area where the plate has to go to the right thickness, that also keeps the brickwork (the inside half of the soldier course etc) together nicely and fills any cavities.
In the end it was only a couple of bricks and managed to smash them in half with the lump hammer, so wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. 👍😁
@@GosforthHandyman Nice going!
it's looks like you took a lot but will be worth it and how long you reckon is going to take to complete the full project.
We always reckoned this would be a 2 year project. 6 months for the renovation, 6 months for the extension and 12 months to tidy everything up, get the garden vaguely in order etc. So half way there! 👍😁
Tired just thinking about moving those blocks!
It kept us fit... for a few weeks at least. 😂
Where you are continuing the cavity at the corner, I'd imagine the old cavity is less that current building regs. Will you continue the same cavity dimension or build out to current dimension?
Build out to current regs but since imperial bricks are bigger the overall wall width ends up roughly the same.
@@GosforthHandyman Since i'm no brickie or builder, that's quite interesting. So I guess when we went over to metric, one advantage, for the same wall width, we ended up with a deeper cavity and therefore more space for insulation.
Are those chainsaw pants you wear when you are using the saw? Thanks
Yeah, more to keep my legs dry!
If it was me I wouldn't worry about the new internal plaster. Do the brick work right and just get it replastered.
Do the brickwork right? No right and wrong here - just personal preference. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman I mean remove what you need to remove to make the most of your new rooms. Don’t compromise just to save damaging a bit of plaster. You’ll be kicking yourself when it’s all finished and you realise that extra 100-200mm of space taken up by the outer leaf would have made the room perfect.
When we got scaffolding in they put end caps on the poles, etc. Seems like yours haven't done any of that which probably isn't helping with head hitting & blocks knocking off
Should be wearing hard hat.
Yeah, I just need to wear my proper hat. 👍
I am just curious.. Are you still working your handyman gig, or are you full-time on this remodel?
No, haven't done client work for several years now. Have other businesses though. 👍
Are the new lintels split/insulated ones ?
Yup! 👍
8:23; less yak yak, more whack whack. :D
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@27:46 Why is the wall not two separate walls with a space like the other part of the wall?
It was the window sill 👍
What is meant by a "lift" of blocks/scaffolding?
It's just each level basically. So once the brickie builds to as high as he can reach it's time for the next level of scaffolding to be built. 👍
Why in the UK is 2 Walls
Drink coffee, watch Andy make stuff
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old tennis balls
Didn't have any but good tip! Plenty golf balls around here... 😂
There's nothing to wake you up more than making a precision cut, then going oops...
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You should always wear a hard hat ...plus you forgot the dpc behind the wall starter.
less chat more smashin stuff. that would make a great t shirt or mug .
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Andy, noticed the blown insulation. Looked a bit sh1t💩 any thoughts?
Nah, it's fine. Quite impressed I haven't found any gaps yet! TBH there's not many 'original' external walls left now. 👍
You may invest in a hard hat lol
Lol I have one!
sounds like someone needs to invent a new kind of cutter, that can flush cut, and/or cut perpendicular to the body of the machine...
Defo! Wish they did a cutter where the blade was closer to the edge, like a circular saw... but I guess it would knacker the balance. 👍
@11:28 "Prevents thermal bridging": Dead air space is your best insulator. When I bought an old Sears Craftsman kit house, I thought that my heat bill was going to be astronomical as there was no insulation in the walls.
To my pleasant surprise, my heat bill was relatively cheap as the house was built air tight and did not need insulation.
Insulation would have created condensation build-up in the walls which would lead to mold and mildew.
In the UK you defo need insulation too - massive difference if the cavity is insulated. 👍
My current house got blown-in insulation put in by the weatherization program.
It made about a 15% difference in the heat bill.
"Nook".
Nook.
WHERES YOUR HARD HAT !!!!!!!!!
My favourite basement jaxx song
Mrs Mac was about to throw it at me. 😂
Garage? You're going to park your car in a three foot wide space?
Closer to 7ft, but in the UK it's very rare to see a car in a garage - too small!
You did say that they where bumble bees didn't you and I'm sure that when the nest was removed the bees had already left. You did say that didn't you I'm sure you did leave it till the nest was finished with because you know it's illegal to destroy a bees nest whilst it's occupied as far as I'm aware. Coming on great mate.
Lol where does it say it's illegal to destroy bees?
Just checked, completely legal, carry on.
Cheers bud! Defo wasn't occupied so all good. They all vanish in the winter. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman yes bumble bees leave the nest each year unlike honey bees and wasps. May be an idea to cover your back on the next video to state the bees nest was empty cos you know what some of these tree huggers are like. 😏😏😏
@@TheFool2cool Ask your local council and pest removal to kill or relocate bumble bee nests and they will refuse as they cause no issues unlike wasps. Bumble bees tend not to act aggressively and naturally move on at the end of their cycle so pest control will not tend to relocate them unless they cause a stinging issue. Honey bees are also protected however they can be relocated as they will inhabit and create hives.
An elderly couple had bumble bees in their soffit and they where informed that the pest removal where not allowed to touch them due to them being protected due to bee declines. You may wish to check it out before telling others to plod on with killing or removing them.
@@BillsAllotmentDiary there is no protection in law for bees.
😣 P r o m o s m.
Stop messing nock em out ,causing more work than you should.
please dont copy this. its not a good idea
Wear a hard hat when under the scaffold. It’s protocol on building sites. Set an example in your videos instead of moaning how often you’ve banged your head on it.