My son and I removed about 350 sq ft of brick off the house when I put on the kitchen addition. We used a compressor and a pneumatic hammer on most of it. Just put the hammer on the mortar joints and pulled the trigger. The bricks popped off, intack. When we got close to the edge we used a grinder to make the transition as you need to take out a weave pattern to tie in the new section. One person did the removal, the other cleaned off any mortar left on the brick and stacked them. We saved at least 95% of them. I did the same to the slate roof. Ron

I was just wondering where Tamara is. Haven't seen a post from her in a very long while. Course, I'm often gone for a week at a time. Maybe a newbie on duty? There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why threads disappear. It's very odd to have read a post then go back to it and it's disappeared into thin air. Maybe it'll keep happening enough that I won't start scratching my head before I figure it out! :)

You can try contacting Support, but in my experience they do not reply or do anything. You'll get a boilerplate auto-response telling you they received it and will respond within XX hours, but they never do. I've also tried contacting Emily Hurley with mixed results. She might eventually respond whereas Support never does. You will probably have to do a "call out" thread since Emily does not have messaging turned on. One thing I noticed in the so-called help topics is that they do not appear to support non-App users -- they primarily support purchases, pros, and Android or iOS apps. I think that partly explains why there are so many technical issues with Houzz -- they do not appear to have the expertise to deal with the site as a whole, they're limited to simple app development/support. Just an FYI that I have never had an Ideabook but suddenly one recently showed up. It turns out they took my bookmarks and put them in an Ideabook. Fortunately, they made it "private". (Or, maybe I made it private, I don't remember for certain now!)

I have tried to help people find stuff. People have helped me before and I appreciated it. Now, It just seems lets bash Houzz. Houzz is bad Garden Web is good. If it can't be like it was 5, 10, 15 years ago, it is bad. If Houzz hadn't of bought GW, you might not have it at all. What you are complaining about is not that much different than before. It is just a different way of looking at it. I hope you have a better day and try to stretch your wings to learn new things and new ways of looking at them.