Steve X16XE
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Well the story began back in July 2006 when my mate bought this terrace house. It was a shit tip. The last people who live there never took their crap with them. So after clearing the house out he wasn't happy (he never is).
Many Many years ago there was a pit under where he lives + the 40 tonne lorrys driving up and down the road 50 times a day, 365 days a year, 80+ years, the house has subsided a little..... well a lot. But it hasn't move in the last 40 or 50 years so it should be ok for the next 10.
So that meant that the walls and the floors weren't level. So everything had to be removed. And i mean everything!!!!
Living room looking to the basement.....
Loft to the 1st floor.....
Top of the stairs to the kitchen.....
Small bedroom looking into the bathroom.....
Kitchen From.......
To......
Me taking the pic up in the loft after i've just kicked the ceiling down and that's my mate sweeping it down to the kitchen, and yes i could have fallen from the loft to the kitchen.
Again but this is the other side. From the loft to the 1st bedroom to the living room to the bacement. That'd hurt in the morning if i fell 
Brickwork in the loft......
He wanted more room in the kitchen so the chimney breast had to come out........
More tomorrow........ 
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AndyKent
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I take it he has had a structural survey and permission to take the chimney out?
Not being funny like, just asking....
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Colin
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Is he a builder or a have a go hero??
Either way....fuck that, way too much work id have tarted it up & flogged it I think
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Steve X16XE
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quote:
Originally posted by aPk
I take it he has had a structural survey and permission to take the chimney out?
Not being funny like, just asking....
The guy who removed it, thats his job. We've fitted an RSJ, pics later of that. 
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Steve X16XE
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Is he a builder or a have a go hero??
Either way....fuck that, way too much work id have tarted it up & flogged it I think
It's me and a couple of mates doing most of the work. It's not that hard. The chimney breast is the only time we got someone in who knows what they are doing. Even then i said that i'd attack that myself.
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Colin
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Fair doo's looks a headache at the minute!!
Any pic's of outside??
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AndyKent
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve X16XE
quote:
Originally posted by aPk
I take it he has had a structural survey and permission to take the chimney out?
Not being funny like, just asking....
The guy who removed it, thats his job. We've fitted an RSJ, pics later of that.
Fair enough. I've been in so many lofts where the chimney has been removed and the top is just supported with a lump of chipboard. And the owners wonder why the stack is leaning
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Steve X16XE
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Just inside. I'll take some of the outside the next time i'm up.
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Steve X16XE
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Chimney breast down..........
The loft now has a step in it. Yes that's how much the floors were out....
Now we had to take a 7 meter RSJ up to the Loft. Here is it in.....
I was sat on the edge lifting the RSJ while 3 people were on the other side to reduce the weight i had to lift. I wrapped the blue rope round my right hand so if i fell i wouldn't land in the kitchen, i'd just be hanging there. So i use my left hand and the tow rope to lift and position the RSJ ready for them to push it into the wall. It was fun
Because the RSJ is so heavey the floor need some strength to take it.....
Here's how we got it in........
Out came the kitchen window and up went the RSJ to the 1st floor.
Then out went the bathroom window so we had enough room to angle it to get it up to the loft.
Now it was time to put in the kitchen floor. In came the load lugger.....
Then in came the cement. Shovel after shovel......
This is how we leveled it all.....
And to get out was fun. Thats my mate who's house it is.
Then patching up the holes in the floor. It still doesn't feel right. Not having to jump over holes where you'll fall a floor or two.
Here's the RSJ fitted into the chimney.......
More on the house later. I need to take the pics but i've been fitting plaster boards.
[Edited on 15-10-2007 by Steve X16XE]
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MikeE
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looks like some of the jobs ive worked on (im a carpenter) looking good tho. oh and yes rsj's are all fun and games lol
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Steve X16XE
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I'm up there tomorrow (if i can fit it in). So i'll be taking more pics.
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Mark Petty
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fcuk that for a laugh, seems like far to much work for my liking
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Gregor
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Put a 5.3m long RSJ in last week at work.
Cunt of a job !
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Steve X16XE
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This thing is 7m. Is there any way of working out how heavy it is?
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Gregor
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Just how many people it paralyzes during lifting tbh 
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MikeE
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quote:
Originally posted by Gregor
Put a 5.3m long RSJ in last week at work.
Cunt of a job !
done that a few times, bloody hard work had to hilti a 4x2 cls to the underside of them and the sides of two collums to take a door frame 
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Gregor
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Are you qualified MikeE
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MikeE
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i got my nvq2 in carpentery and joinery and done a 4year apprentership. or do u mean to use a hilti 
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neoquip
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeE
i got my nvq2 in carpentery and joinery and done a 4year apprentership. or do u mean to use a hilti
why don't you do the NVQ level 3?
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MikeE
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been out of college 2 1/2 years now tbh i didnt really want to go through with it as my ferm said they would train me on site for the same as nvq3. i will probally regret it one day, but i can fit bay windows, cut roofs, etc which is what they done at bedford college on the nvq3.
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neoquip
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its so they don't have to pay you as much as someone with fully qualification, so be careful!
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MISSION!
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MikeE
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quote:
Originally posted by neoquip
its so they don't have to pay you as much as someone with fully qualification, so be careful!
in the real world tho its about who can do the job in hand tho sorry if you'r in the trade tho and know the score
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Whittie
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Looks like you've got some work cut out ahead of you
Great project though.
Keeping that after plastering?
Could look so
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Steve X16XE
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I think that he's wanting to leave the bricks exposed. I think that he'll fill in the hole if he does.
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