19 replies to this topic

[KurtVerbose]

1. Slice up the wall with a concrete saw like this.

 

 

2. Drill a hole in the wall.

3. Put a strong piece of steel through.

4. Put a 50 ton bottle jack underneath.

 

 

5. Jack it up.

End result: -

 

 

This was before.

 

 

Can you think of a better way to get your back passage enlarged?

[Dan r]

A nurse I know has told me stories of back passages being enlarged by all sorts of ways.Your pics aren't working for me?

[SteveA]

Good work, in my experience of building and demolition the BFH is the way forward. I would have probably sliced it up and used a big SDS. Like your method though

[Nev]

If it works it works, though I hope those jack seals don't weap if you're leaving it for an extended time.

Edited by Nev, 27 November 2017 - 11:31 AM.

[oblomov]

I think a longer handle for the jack might be a sensible idea.

[Ali87]

I have my own preferred method, involving the works skoda and some calving ropes!... I'll try find a linky...

[Ali87]

Cameraman was a bit slow in getting going but you get the idea https://youtu.be/RgtbBmWh2B8

[KurtVerbose]

So I've now got a load of huge blocks of concrete, some of which are either too thick to use the concrete saw on, or are in a difficult position to cut. To be honest, the neighbour is starting to moan about the smell of 2 stroke smoke. I asked a builder friend and he said rent a big pneumatic hammer with a compressor - which would cost a lot.

 

So a bit of latteral thinking, I remembered I have a core drill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Didn't take that long, and a lot cheaper than renting a pneumatic hammer.

[oblomov]

I used the same principle with an ordinary 10mm masonry bit when making a doorway from my garage into the house. I could have cut through with a circular blade which would have been quicker, but, from experience, the amount of dust generated would have been horrendous. Looks like you've still got quite a bit left to do there. I'm lucky, my next door neighbor is a builder. When he found out what I was doing he lent me any tools I needed and when I spoke about buying a door frame, said "Wait here" and thirty minutes later came back with one he'd made from scratch.

Edited by oblomov, 01 December 2017 - 04:04 PM.

[Nev]

Jeeze, that's some serious work you are doing there Kurt.

[KurtVerbose]

Another half days work and my back passage is now free of blockages.

 

 

Just got this big fecker to destroy. I'll use the core drill on it later.

 

 

Edited by KurtVerbose, 12 December 2017 - 07:38 AM.

[ChrisS1]

Looks like a posh front line trench.

[KurtVerbose]

This lump took some work. I was even tempted to dig a hole and dump it in that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KurtVerbose]

Here's some of it being unloaded at the dump.

 

[FLD]

Our local dump charges loads for dumping hardcore.

[KurtVerbose]

It's about £5 a tonne here - unless you're talking about pornography?

[SteveA]

Our local dump charges loads for dumping hardcore.

Same here, £3 a vhs, £1 per jazz mag.

[KurtVerbose]

VHS - that's ancient porn in your collection. Was it stuff like this?

 

[SteveA]

Easy now, you will have to change the thread title NSFW with that sort of racy material.

[FLD]

Spent! X(