Finishing up the chimney

I only took down the chimney below the roof line before, so now I had to get it down below the floor.  The first part that was above the ceiling was by far the most time consuming since I had to constantly go up and down the ladder for buckets and weave between the ceiling joists to get at it.  At least there was somewhere nice to put the bucket while I was up there.

Once I got the chimney down more I noticed I could rock it back and forth, so that's interesting...

And finally down to the floor

Since I saw how many buckets it took to hold just the part over the chimney, I decided it's easier to just have a pile in the back yard that I can gradually put into my garbage cart.  The grass is already mostly gone from the trenching anyway.

Getting it ready for patching

I was surprised how much the changed the feel upstairs.  It almost makes it feel bigger and smaller than before at the same time.  Also this is what the roof patch looks like from underneath.