What I'd do for ONE MORE Kitchen Cabinet

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8 ай бұрын

The lengths I'll go to to get one more cabinet in this house! This week I'm removing an old chimney so we can put in a kitchen cabinet and a sliding pocket door.
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@rattlejake0422 8 ай бұрын

The level of Ship of Theseus to this house remodel is pretty epic....

@sebastienboisvert8561 7 ай бұрын

I love the subtle sponsor mention of the Rockler tool, it is not distracting from the flow of the video.

@glenlongstreet7 8 ай бұрын

I was removing a chimney from an old meeting house, circa 1860. The chimney was resting on the ceiling joists and had warped the entire building. Starting from the attic a young neighbor and I started removing the bricks. After a bit I noticed that he was going around the chimney rather than down the side. I asked him to stop and look at what he had done. He quickly backed away about 10 feet and I removed the remaining two bricks and ran. Watching a 15-foot brick chimney slide 12 feet down to the floor below is not something that either of us will forget. My wife was not impressed.

@tmaltez 8 ай бұрын

You were the cool-aid man. Great to see the progress.

@knotchtactical5257 8 ай бұрын

Some of those liners are made with asbestos in older homes. Too late now but usually want to get that stuff tested before demo.

@domswoodshop2692 8 ай бұрын

Love the work so far! Can't wait to see that pocket door with a pattern plywood inlay! 😉

@nates2526 8 ай бұрын

We tore down the old coal furnace chimney from the center of out 1920a house a few years ago. Added two new cabinets and more counter space. It made a HUGE difference!

@markhaynes6410 8 ай бұрын

Absolute rule with any remodeling work, you will find so etching that changes your plans and no matter how much effort it takes once found, it is worth it. Loving the mix up of demo, re -fit and woodwork all done in your thoroughly watchable style ☺️

@ShadowoftheDude 8 ай бұрын

Obviously you were more concerned about safety, but I can't help but think of all the pitch black ink that could be made with that wonderful vintage soot. XD

@biedawo 8 ай бұрын

Good work. Warbly grooves is one of the banes of my routing; always have to remind myself to never skimp on the jigging.

@alans1816 8 ай бұрын

When you rout the real door, keep in mind that routers go left. If cutting holds the fence to the work, it's easy to control. If cutting pushes the fence away from the work, it's much harder to control as you found.

@craighanus 8 ай бұрын

Those terracotta liners are great for garden planters. 😊

@dannyoktim9628 6 ай бұрын

Nice work, that sliding door frame is worth every $$$. I built a sliding barn pantry door for my daughter, the upper part of the door is a chalk board and the lower is ship-lap on a 45. The kids love to draw on it also super for Holiday Gratings and pantry list. Just saying friend. Side note, like that you share your mishaps . . .we all do them . . .

@slimcharles85 8 ай бұрын

Pattern plywood pocket door!?

@HLR4th 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for showing the “cutting the hole, not the board” trick- I had not seen it before! Outstanding job!

@PikkaBird 8 ай бұрын

It was amazing that the sections of mortared bricks you tossed off the roof didn't even break up when they hit the ground. I too am baffled as to what the heck that mortar is made of.

@JasonPeltier 8 ай бұрын

That's a really cool pocket door upgrade!

@CupcakeElliott 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely worth it: great decision!! We had something similar and my builders were not impressed that I asked them to take out two chimneys in our house but when they saw the result which was greater space in the stairwell and on the landing, they had to admit it was worth the effort. Seemingly small removals can be big work, but the reward is definitely worth it.

@robertm348 8 ай бұрын

Gee, I always wanted to tear down a chimney (not really) and the extra space will be worth the effort. Good job, Michael!

@DanielRichards644 8 ай бұрын

Part of me would have just knocked out the wall between the mudroom and kitchen to absorb the long wall of the mudroom where the HVAC used to be into the kitchen, then maybe a smaller mudroom just to isolate the washer/dryer area.

@morsecodereviews1553 8 ай бұрын

Your star trek door needs star trek sounds 😏

@MichaelAlm 8 ай бұрын

Hahaha! Yes. It. Does.

@TheVillainInThisGame 8 ай бұрын

10:35 I appreciate you making the note *fireproof because inflammable means it ***will catch fire***

@DownWithit 8 ай бұрын

I enjoyed watching someone else do brick demo😅

@chrisbmurphy 8 ай бұрын

Michael, this video, in particular, feels ready for network television. Solid shooting, writing, all of it was great. You even did some new shots that were a little reminiscent of Good Eats/Alton Brown with the popping out of the ceiling, etc. Project looks great by the way.

@jonathinrichards10 8 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was reminded of as well!

@andreasleitner4652 8 ай бұрын

I´m from austria and most of our houses are built with bricks. It was kind of funny to see, how you tried to knock down that chimney in the first place. Nobody from europa would have even thought about knocking it down without a powertool :-)

@balzacq 8 ай бұрын

I have a similar gas flue chimney that I can't wait to get rid of as soon as I put in radiant heat.

@JacobAldridge 8 ай бұрын

I was waiting for a Kool-Aid "Oh yeah!" When you knocked that wall down. 12:00

@sawdustadikt979 8 ай бұрын

I had a tree hit my house, it hit the chimney squarely before it went into my living room. The chimney was poured concrete, never saw that before. It broke into 4 large pieces. Like 3ft to 6ft long pieces that looked like a Jenna pile about to fall when I opened the walls up. I had to frame up supports onto the chimney before I chipped it up into small pieces that wouldn’t break through the floor. Did it solo so it took about a week, walking buckets in and out of the house. Place looks great, I tried filming every thing and then putting it here on KZfaq, it was to overwhelming, good on you. You make it all look so easy.

@LewHarriman 8 ай бұрын

Lotta work and looks great! (But next time... for roof work I'll bet your wonderful wife would be a bit less tense if you tied-off securely with an OSHA-compliant harness like the solar installers use.)

@susan_halla 8 ай бұрын

I totally appreciate the scope creep of taking out the chimney. In our renovation endeavors, it’s always, “Well, if we’re going to do this, might as well do it right” followed by a sigh knowing you just signed on for more work. Love the giant demo hammer drill, so much so that I ended up buying one. My shop is in the garage which is all concrete (floors, walls, AND ceiling) and that thing has already paid for itself. Looking great!

@balzacq 8 ай бұрын

I bought a Milwaukee roto hammer (smaller than the rental) when I was bolting down a canopy to my patio so the wind wouldn't carry it off. It drilled 3/16" holes in 2" thick concrete in about 30 seconds each, compared to about 10 minutes each for my standard hammer drill.

@TrapperWorks 8 ай бұрын

Such a good edit!! Great video - love watching the progress

@briancz1 8 ай бұрын

I've never taken down a chimney, but I really wanted to for the same reason you took yours out. We had a 1920s house and it posed the same issue with limiting space in the kitchen and we didn't need it to vent the furnace or hot water on demand unit. If I did take it out I had planned on popping a hole in the base of it in the basement and once getting the top off just sending the bricks down the chimney and having someone else empty them out from there

@dwwoodbuilds 8 ай бұрын

Really enjoying the series! There's something about demolition that's just fun to watch! That cavity slider system seems very nice!! Glad to see continued progress and glad your assistant could still help out!

@AndrewChambersDesign 8 ай бұрын

Super enjoying the series, love seeing reno work by someone who knows what they’re doing.

@ajmarlow8533 8 ай бұрын

Michael kicking down that brick wall like the Kool-Aid Man...OH YEAHHHH!! Lol

@markkaes3144 8 ай бұрын

Love it. We lived in a 1946 three bedroom one bathroom 1100 sq’ home… every decision should be about maximizing the useable square footage. You’re doing things right! Would love to be a part of this project… but until I can win the lottery I’m just gonna have to keep my day job 😂

@GopherWoodshop 8 ай бұрын

Excellent series.👍

@sol_in.victus 8 ай бұрын

I'm so obsessed with this series i will religiously watch every video, lol. I was wondering, with all the precautions you had to go through for the lead painted walls on the first demo, shouldn't similar precautions be taken when you took down the brick wall? or was that wall put up after the asbestos/lead paint ones?

@gabrielarrhenius6252 8 ай бұрын

I'de like to think that they took a small sample and took it for lead testing (pretty common to do) and it came back negative or so low that a simple high grit respirator was enough.

@chris_hertford 8 ай бұрын

Framing hammer and pry bar? Glad to see you get some better tools!

@harryshaw2288 8 ай бұрын

these videos honestly bring me so much happiness it’s actually insane. thank u.

@S_R231 8 ай бұрын

Hey Steve, Just found and subbed by the end of part one. Now to get myself a TIG. They were some fine wields. Cheers

@c.a.g.1977 8 ай бұрын

Love the series, Michael, I learn something every time! Awesome!

@mattwoodard5535 8 ай бұрын

Loving this series! Can’t wait to see all the cool detail work I’m sure you’ll eventually do

@taylorstein3402 8 ай бұрын

Love the series!

@nothingtoseehere93 8 ай бұрын

I love this series

@E4mj 8 ай бұрын

If you wanted to have soft close too you might be able to get some retro-fit cabinet door softclose clips, and line them up the back of the door, so they soft close against the back of the cavity -- not sure if that would work, as we didn't see a close-up of the cavity, but it might work?

@fiercegirldesign1 8 ай бұрын

I am LOVING this series!

@holdemNE1 8 ай бұрын

Enjoyable video. Thanks for posting.

@yuGtahT 8 ай бұрын

Man! I'm really enjoying this series!

@ellieboa 8 ай бұрын

Loving this series!

@noconz0727 7 ай бұрын

I've taken a chimney down before we decided to drop the bricks down the chimney and have the guys below. Take care of them. It was kind of fun

@jimrosson6702 8 ай бұрын

Looks amazing great job. Can’t wait to see it finished

@westhighlandsshop 8 ай бұрын

I really enjoy your channel and the diversity of what you do is great. The house remodel reminds me of some of my old projects, so many changes and going way deeper that intended. I'm glad to see you are pushing through and doing everything the right way. Great work, please keep it coming.

@cashkruz319 8 ай бұрын

Please tell me that your going to make a super sweet, patterned plywood door for that pocket door. That would be so awesome!! Thank you for another great video!

@alanlane3869 4 ай бұрын

Channeling a little Fred Dibna when you were breaking down the chimney.

@jordanremy2015 8 ай бұрын

Great walkthrough - considering this in my own home. Chimneys are so overrated!

@MCsCreations 8 ай бұрын

Really fantastic work, Michael! 😃 Looking forward to the next steps! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

@MCsCreations 8 ай бұрын

What a lost opportunity, Michael! When you throw the first piece down you should have put some sond efforts! 😂 Like some screams and such! 😂

@sportsman1824 8 ай бұрын

That pocket door is fantastic. Builder grade pocket doors are crap... great video

@beckyjohnson3153 8 ай бұрын

Nice work!

@nonemptystring7463 8 ай бұрын

I have this exact rotary hammer and was removing some tiles with it recently. So much fun!

@anthonyvincent9990 8 ай бұрын

spray your vent pipes with black paint the white sticks out and it make it more visually appealing.

@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse 8 ай бұрын

The one thing other than the fire place that isn't built like Barbie's dream house (the toy version) and you tear it out :D.

@tbread1128 8 ай бұрын

Destroying a chimney? That’s a ticket to the top of the naughty list …

@M_Northstar 8 ай бұрын

It was a bricked up chimney. I'm surprised he didn't find Santa's desiccated body in there.

@PikkaBird 8 ай бұрын

@@M_Northstar Kinda makes me think of Kate's christmas story in Gremlins, about her dad trying to climb down the chimney in a Santa suit. Gnarly stuff in a lighthearted romp like that.

@mandyleeson1 8 ай бұрын

👏🏼🌟

@FearsomeWarrior 8 ай бұрын

@@PikkaBirdGremlins is a horror movie in many ways. I remember the kitchen scene so vividly. The gremlin in the microwave and the terror of it was so good. The actress who played the mom was great. Love the power wheels scenes too with the music. So good.

@Heymrk 8 ай бұрын

Chimneys are gross. Creosote is horrible for your health. There should be tax credits to remove them and convert to electric heating.

@zafarsyed6437 8 ай бұрын

Not judging you. N100 is really good. But you guys really should've considered respirators because their superior fit compared to paper masks. And a good idea would've been to tarp-off the chimney area. That soot spreads far and wide... just from the pressure of the squirt bottle, and then lands and gets kicked up again. But it's even finer, so you don't see it and walk around, breathing it in... Just a recommendation for the future. Not criticism. Also, the pocket door activator moved when you moved the door back. And/or, that block is absolutely useless and meant for 2 pocket doors meeting in the middle?

@landsil_ 8 ай бұрын

Cavity Slider... Phrasing!!!

@buffal0wned205 8 ай бұрын

Time spent working is temporary, storage is forever

@thaddeusecheverria7733 8 ай бұрын

Love these

@JBLewis 8 ай бұрын

Looking forward to the door build. We remodeled our bathroom a year or so ago, and ended up not being able to find a door we liked to go in the pocket! So we've been doing so research on building our own door. I only have a table saw and a power miter saw.

@chrissiebeneck3294 8 ай бұрын

I really like the look of interior exposed brick, but it doesn't work for everyone in every scenario. Great videos as always!

@IAMSatisfied 8 ай бұрын

Yep, that looks like a WWII era home, where eaves were eliminated to save lumber for the war effort. That Cavity Slider looks like a nifty pocket door, and it should be for $1k+. The extruded aluminum will provide stiffness to the wall that wood-framed pocket doors are notorious for lacking. How is the drywall fastened to the extrusion... adhesive? Thanks for sharing!

@karenmitchell6814 8 ай бұрын

How timely. I’m putting in a pocket door between the primary bed & bath. Going to check out cavity slider. Loving this series.

@nickhenscheid369 8 ай бұрын

Cavity slider seems nice, I don't think that existed back when I was doing this stuff ~15 years ago. We used to make pocket doors using 1-1/8" HDO plywood to form the box and unistrut for the upper rail (can't remember where we got the sliding mechanism but they were beefy). The soft close/open seems like a really nice feature. Definitely going to look into those for my own upcoming addition!

@idontthinkso666 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, we put in a pair of pocket doors, and there wasn't a soft-close option then. REALLY wish I had that.

@davidiliyn 8 ай бұрын

Nice work. Reminds me of my 1948 house in Oregon. Looks like the above roof section was likely re-built in the last decade. Prob why it was hard to crack!

@wyrdlg 8 ай бұрын

No no no you're the best!

@naioti 8 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie, really thought you were going to run through that brick wall like the Kool-Aid man… but knocking it over was cool too

@MrQuickLine 8 ай бұрын

10:37 - "Inflammable means flammable? What a country!" - Dr. Nick

@zloungeact 8 ай бұрын

Wish I had your knowledge of home improvement stuff

@JorgeAguilar714 8 ай бұрын

For your permanent pocket door, rout the groove on the bottom rail before assembly or use a router with two fences to avoid router drift.

@thehut2016 Ай бұрын

Nice Mason work.

@jimmeh213 6 ай бұрын

That chimney appeared to be repointed with cement mortar. With the original lime mortar youd be able to knock it over with an estwing.

@explodeder 8 ай бұрын

I love the attic shots. Are you planning on a vid of hvac being installed up there?

@HugTheLoveBear 8 ай бұрын

Hey Michael I might be a bit late and I'm certain that you know what you're doing but there's a youtuber named ScottBrownCarpentry, he is a New Zealand builder currently building his house and I think there's a thing or 2 that you could learn from each other. I have put a similar comment under his videos. Love your stuff good luck to Ruiz

@hinerron 8 ай бұрын

Hey I feel the pain I'm totally in in middle of this myself! But damn I think you could have saved yourself a lot of time by just taking a 6 pound sledgehammer to that plaster covered chimney instead of using a bulldog to slowly chip the plaster off of the brick you were just gonna demo anyway.

@dr.timothyr.morris5389 7 ай бұрын

Serendipity! My 1945 1.5 story Cape Cod Lovell home in Ballard *needs* a new kitchen. The central chimney runs through all three stories and abuts the kitchen. The upper story is finished--but due for a remodel. The central main floor is finished, and one side of the basement section of the chimney is finished, so extracting the chimney without disturbing the rest of the house has given me pause. I had been planning to open up the upper and main story walls and use the brick by brick method like you demonstrated. One builder friend suggested I erect some barriers in the basement and collapse the whole thing down from the bottom. Thoughts?

@AnotherUnsociableOne 8 ай бұрын

Removing that chimney was WAY harder than I expected it to be. I’m tired just watching. 😊

@steveferguson1232 8 ай бұрын

It would be cool if you repurposed the bricks into a walkway or small patio

@Valentine570 8 ай бұрын

The fact that inflammable means flammable will never not trip me up. Brick is not fireproof either though it is only noncombustible. It wont start the fire but fire can damage the wall still because of the mortar.

@OzanTheWise 8 ай бұрын

To be honest, it is kind of wrong to use them interchangeably. Because they actually don't have the same meaning from a technical point of view. Flammable should be used for things that can be set fire to with a source of ignition, while inflammable means, the thing can catch fire by themselves without needing a source of ignition.

@Valentine570 7 ай бұрын

@@OzanTheWise Im not sure which technical point of view sees them as different but the nfpa fire diamond the most widely used set of safety guidelines uses the term flammable with inflammable having the same meaning but not being recommended since it is confusing. Autoigniting substances are called pyrophoric not inflammable although they are still technically inflammable/flammable.

@gazehound 8 ай бұрын

"you pay for what you get" 😂

@sfallier 8 ай бұрын

Missed opportunity for Kool-Aid man cosplay.

@imaginationingrained 8 ай бұрын

DRAGONSCALE PLYWOOD POCKET DOOR!!!!!!!!

@peachettte 8 ай бұрын

In my european eyes, you just removed the only proper parts of your house- bricks! 😂 Joking aside, great job :) looking forward to the finished product

@GenZyannd 8 ай бұрын

that's some good brick work. shame to see them go.😅

@hsjawanda 8 ай бұрын

This has become quite an interesting project! Couldn't you have used a vacuum to suck up all that fine coal soot/ chimney dust? Btw, what the difference between an extractor & a vacuum?

@atariks1475 8 ай бұрын

And now imagine your walls are build with this. Than you can feel safe ^^

@freethebirds3578 8 ай бұрын

My first boyfriend's family had a lovely old house with incredibly elegant pocket doors. I always wanted them until I had one in an old apartment. That one was was useless and cured that longing.

@Aaron-nj4ou 8 ай бұрын

Michael you just needed a bigger hammer. The demo hammers are very nice though I used to redo the brick on our fireplace. Took longer to drive and rent it than the actual demo did.

@doubletrouble0833 8 ай бұрын

You do great work and look forward to your installment. You said you were making your own have you thought about maybe doing semi transparent epoxy door ? It would great hidden feature and give the kitchen an unexpected amazing surprise Let me know what you think 🤔