Installing a Mantle to a Brick Chimney (From Inside)

all right you can see my previous work but we got to get way down there yeah and i think i'm going to send you in there you up for it what all right hey gang welcome back to the channel today's project is installing this 75 pound mantel on this fireplace a lot of cool tips and tricks in this video so let's head back to the workshop and we'll show you how we did it so we're going to route a recess in the back of the beam so that this sits flush this bracket is a piece of quarter inch thick steel it's three inches wide and it's 70 inches long and it's from shelfology.com so i'm going to cut a slot in this piece of baltic birch a quarter inch bigger than this so i have an eighth of an eighth of an inch play all the way around so this is three by seventy i'm going to cut a slot in here three and a quarter by seven and a quarter with my track saw i've already got it laid out so i'm going to put this on here and let's get this slot cut out i've got these two cuts made and we've got the end on this one cut and i'm going to plunge cut this one real quick so that's my cut line so i'm back so the kerf is going to remove that material between the guide and the cut line just accounting for the curve of the blade there [Applause] and that should fit right in there just like that so now this is going to be the template for our router so let's attach this to the back of the beam all right again we've got our template on the back of our beam you can come in close here josh this is the center of our beam and then if you can look over here josh right here that's the center of our template and those are aligned so that gets the template where i want it in this direction and then to get it centered on this dimension i made a mark on my blue tape and then i'm just confirming i've got 1 and 5 16 from the edge of the beam to the edge of my template here and the same down here so now we're going to screw this template to the back of the beam and route out that pocket now i've got my porta cable router i've got a one and a quarter inch diameter mortising bit in it with the bearing on the top i use that to mortise door hinges that have a 5 8 radius corner it's a little bigger than i wanted to use here but all the other ones i have are really small but i've got this to set i've got this set to a little more than half a depth half the depth of cut well this is not a self-drilling bit in other words i can't i can't just plunge it it won't cut out the wood in the middle right here so i cut a recess with a 1 3 8 inch spade bit let's give it a shot take the router up a little bit start it and then set it down all right so there's past one it was a little deeper than i wanted but this was as high as i could put it with this base on my router so get a close-up shot of that josh so now we're going to go a little deeper on this pass so that one and a quarter diameter bit left a 5 8 inch radius and i want to clean that up so that our bracket sits in there nice and tight so i switched to a half inch bit i've already set my depth we're just going to clean up each corner so our next step is to drill the five holes for these five pieces of pipe now these are exactly one inch in diameter it's an eighth inch wall thickness so that means the id's is three quarters of an inch so i had a couple of ideas about how to transfer the center of these pipes to the mantel uh basically a transfer punch i i don't own a set but i do have a three-quarter inch auger with a point and that does the same thing right i could put that in there it fits great and then that point would make a mark in the wood but my problem is holding it you know doing one then the next one then the next one all the way down without it moving and i didn't feel comfortable about it so i have a one inch hole saw and i drilled a test hole through a piece of plywood and it fits great on there perfect nice and snug so i'm gonna use these blocks so i've got five of them i'm gonna put them on the pipe get it positioned screw this down on one end put the one down here where my left hand is that way it won't move and then attach the three in the middle i'm gonna do that off camera and i'll bring you back and show you what i did all right changed my mind a little bit i want to show you this step that i'm going to take before i attach these blocks and like i said this is a one inch pipe od i wanted to drill a 1 and 16 inch hole in here but i couldn't find a 1 and 16 inch hole saw or spade bit so got a one and an eighth i want some play in here if i were to drill a one inch hole for all five of these i would really struggle trying to push this mantle onto here so i'm gonna drill a one and an eighth inch hole so this piece of pipe is centered in our opening i'm one and an eighth from the edge of the pipe to the edge of my mortise on both sides but if i drill an oversized hole there when i slide the mantel on this is pretend this is the mantel this is black around here here's our hole in the mantel it's going to sit on top of the pipe and the mantel's effectively going to drop because the center line of this one inch hole is different than the center line of this bigger hole and like i said it's only a sixteenth of an inch but i'm going to account for it because the last thing i want is for us to slide the mantel on and then it hits this before it goes all the way back to the brick so all i'm all i'm going to do is move this pipe a 16th of an inch that way which is towards the bottom is that clear as mud so now i'm 1-3 16 from here to the edge i'm going to drop this block down i'm going to screw it in place i wasn't going to use my brad nailer but i left my compressor i didn't leave it but it's had another job all right that locks down the two the pipe on each end so now i'm just going to attach the three in the middle all right all five blocks are screwed down to our mantel so now i can remove this and now i've got a perfect template to drill my five holes so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna use the same one-inch hole saw i'm gonna put it in there and the pilot bit will self-center in the middle of that hole and give me a pilot hole for the next step so i'm just gonna drill a little bit that's all i need i'm gonna do all five all right i've got a quarter inch bit that's 12 inches long just for things like this put a piece of blue tape here as a depth stop to account for the height of this and the thickness of my drill gauge and this block so what i did i placed this through the quarter inch hole this is big gator tools it's a drill guide just for this it's got all these different sizes so i'm in the quarter inch hole and i'm in the pilot hole that the hole saw drilled and i just put a screw here just to make things easier for me i don't have to hold so many things and i'm just going to go straight down [Applause] there we go now the idea of that is that hole is going to guide the spade bit this auger point is going to follow that quarter inch hole all the way down and give us a straight hole now yes i'm going to lose the the function of that auger bit to pull it through the hole but i'll just be able to push that in so let's drill these other four and then we'll remove our blocks all right now our next step is to drill our one eighth inch hole i think that's going to be fine now this is a little short i have an extension but i think i'm gonna go as deep as i can on all five put the extension on and finish them all right that's working great i don't think uh so i don't have to worry too much about keeping the drill straight even though i i'm doing the best i can but i know that that is gonna follow that other hole we drilled so let's knock out these last ones we'll put our extension on there and go to full depth and i think we'll be done we'll give it a test fit all right getting a little set back but i think we got it figured out this bit is too short to drill a six inch deep hole i have two extensions but that bit does not fit my old spade bits fit in here but these new ones are made for quarter inch impact so what i'm going to do i've got a quarter inch six point deep set socket quarter inch drive it fits on there perfectly i've got a quarter by hex adapter from my socket set now i can chuck that in my drill and keep going the only thing i got to do is tape this because there's nothing holding that bit and that'll stay that'll stay in the hole it'll probably come out anyway but i only have a little bit more to go so we'll just get through it i wanted to show you i switched to my electric drill just because i needed the power and i've got this handle on the side so it won't get away from me so to extend this bit i could have just used a bit holder like that but i wanted to show you the socket trick because it it's a good trick to have in your tool bag in case you do have a hex shank tool that you need to extend like maybe a hole saw or something so just remember that next time you need an extension get out your socket set all right let's flip this thing over and clean out those holes and see if this thing works first time we put this tape on here just to give us a handle to get it out i'm liking that i'm gonna let go nice perfect that's what we wanted i think i'm just going to let it sit there tonight go take a shower and tomorrow we'll install it we'll see you tomorrow all right gang it's the next day we're at the job site and this is where the mantle goes the laser line represents the middle of the bracket that you saw a mortise in the back of this beam it's ready to drill so let's go outside and do that but first we want to talk about this mantle a little more the owner told us this actually came from new hampshire and it's white oak and they call it kingswood up there if you're interested in that look up kingswood all right let's go outside and drill that thing all right guys we're outside so we can drill this thing it comes pre-drilled and countersunk from the factory these are four inches on center so it works great with traditional framing 16 inches on the center but we don't have that so we're going to drill two holes we've already got them marked and center punched and i'm just about a foot from the inside of this pipe to the hole we're going to drill them and take this inside so i'm starting out with a that's a 15 60 ports and then we're going to go bigger to accommodate the threaded rod all right gang we have our two holes drilled at 25 64. one size above three eighths and it's going to work perfectly so let's bring this inside and drill a test hole through the mortar and see where we end up on the inside of that chimney that wood all right so we drilled a test hole and i can tell the bit is hitting that header that's across there so that's good news for us i didn't plan on having to drill through wood thus far that that's that is that far in this will do it [Music] all right let's put me out and see how we did all right let's take a look and see how we ended up down here all right we can see the bit oh cool and actually what i thought was wood was all the mortar that's piled up on top of that header can you see it yeah so we punched through right above that header well it kind of spoils my plan of doing something similar to that right but you can take those cross braces and span them across these two pieces of wood and drill a threaded rod through that and just have it brace against that and that'll transfer the load really well oh so not go against the brick but go but go against the face of the back face of that stud and that one right span these two pieces of wood would be perfect yeah and that's that's a lot stronger i would be all right awesome let's let's go get our uh let's go drill the other hole and get everything ready cool all right we got our two holes drilled in fact this one kind of hit part of the wood right and then the drill bit kicked up as it went through but there it is but now we need to know how far apart this framing is so these two look a little farther apart than the two on the on the right sometimes when you can't get to where you need to measure this is a trick you can do put the tape like that so i've got the two foot mark lined up on that other stud so i'm i'm 13 and a half from the edge of this one to the edge of this one all right let's measure your side jordan you want to do it yeah i've never tried this method before so let's see uh let's see how user-friendly it is so i i'm having a hard time getting to the top of that that chimney angle is right right in the way huh so maybe i can put it on here and then you can try it's gonna be a little harder it's gonna be hard okay so it's like eight inches give or take okay so the piece of metal i brought is not super long but i think if we go with a 16 inch here and a 12 inch there we'll be fine all right all right let's go out to the truck and cut that and drill it get our hardware and i think we're ready to put it in okay all right the holes in here are not big enough for the threaded rod pretty close but we'll need to drill one of these out we don't know which one it is so i'm going to send jordan the chimney he's going to tell me which one of these to drill send it back up to me i'll come drill them and we'll put them back in i'm having a hard time in here i don't know how dad did this before me also i know i'm in flip-flops i don't want to hear it and uh dad only gave me two washers so there's no room for error we're gonna slide this through and try and tighten it down let's see i gotta reach all the way down here yep there is nowhere to put my feet yep it's a pain yeah it's on hopefully that serrated nut will grab and we won't have to put a wrench on it but if you do that's what we'll just have that looks like enough to me you want a little more than that let me see that's plenty yeah yeah and you got good purchase on those other 2x4 oh yeah awesome yeah definitely all right you want to hop up and then um yeah i'll help you get out we'll do the other side uh yeah all right yeah good job you feel me yep uh i do regret wearing flip-flops i was not aware that this was gonna be the situation today sorry it's okay so i'm just looking at this side oh this is tough this is already tougher yep a headlamp would be dope you really just gotta kind of just do it yep you know nothing to it but to do it like those bees right right just gotta figure it out find a way improvised sometimes i need some light though i can hang on to this top plate yep that's nice and there is literally nothing behind me okay so i'm gonna get my back up against this piece yeah all right here's the metal and the pencil you guys know i love my flip-flops if i lost one i don't know what i would do what a patience tester alrighty guys the rod is in and it's tight as you can see there looks really good so i'm pleased with that so now it's time to climb up on out of here hey bud is that you ready for a break thank you jesus get me out of here all right come on nice job boyd yeah that was cool all right that is bolted on super strong big thumbs up to jordan for jumping in there three different times right right that was a tough job yeah getting in there myself deserves a like on the video huh this is not easy you almost got to be like a contortionist almost well let's cut these off and then we're going to counter bore the back of the mantle to account for this nut and bolt we'll slide it on there we'll see how it looks [Music] [Music] [Applause] all right gang that's gonna be a wrap on this mantle installation we hope you enjoyed it this was the way we had to do this particular one at your house is going to be a little different but we want to pass on to you some of the tips and tricks we use to install something like this so if you like the video make sure you give us that thumbs up drop us a comment down below drop us a question we'll try to answer for you and be sure to subscribe if you haven't already that 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Channel: Stud Pack

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Keywords: floating mantel bracket, shelfology bracket installation, glenn HD bracket installation, installing a floating mantel

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Length: 20min 34sec (1234 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 18 2020