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I will be undertaking the exact same job next year and have asked a few builders on various building sites i have visited with my job. ~The general response seems to be that if you seat new joists into the outside wall and overlap them far enough with the old joists and tie the together with...

No, it all has to come down. If anything, the ground floor is the bit most important to remove.

Thanks for your quick reply The joists actually rest on the bricks of the chimney structure. The outer wall of the chimney is wider on the lower floor, and it is this outer wall that the joists rest.

Hi everyone. I am planning to undertake my most ambitious project to date - the removal of a chimney breast from roof to ground floor. I am pretty well prepared for a hard messy job, and think I have a good understanding of everything concerned - except one thing. At the moment the floor /...