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I am concerned about damaging my house slab or house windows when we demolish the concrete patio. My house is shaped like a letter G around a concrete patio, and the patio is approximately 20ft x 20ft. The house perimeter is supported on piles. The patio slab is attached to the house slab ( I assume through extending and tieing rebar ), but the patio slab is on-grade. Over the years the soil has consolidated and the patio settled and cracked. I will be removing the concrete patio and replacing it with bricks set in sand.
On one 20ft side of the slab, I have a wall of windows nearly full height of the wall.
How should I remove the patio without damaging my house slab or the wall of windows? Should I avoid a jack-hammer approach since this would cause a great deal of vibration? A sledge hammer approach or large cold chisel and heavy hammer approach seems like it would take forever to remove this patio.
Any suggestions?
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I am concerned about damaging my house slab or house windows when we demolish the concrete patio. My house is shaped like a letter G around a concrete patio, and the patio is approximately 20ft x 20ft. The house perimeter is supported on piles. The patio slab is attached to the house slab ( I assume through extending and tieing rebar ), but the patio slab is on-grade. Over the years the soil has consolidated and the patio settled and cracked. I will be removing the concrete patio and replacing it with bricks set in sand.
On one 20ft side of the slab, I have a wall of windows nearly full height of the wall.
How should I remove the patio without damaging my house slab or the wall of windows? Should I avoid a jack-hammer approach since this would cause a great deal of vibration? A sledge hammer approach or large cold chisel and heavy hammer approach seems like it would take forever to remove this patio.
Any suggestions?
Can someone answer this?
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but why ... look at the date....
Well, like the good little Taunton member I am (I have been promised a hat if I behave) , I did a search first on a subject that I will be performing starting friday. We have a fairly similiar scenario.
I didn't want to start yet another thread ;-)
Oh, I figured to start with scoring the edges, the jackhammer away!
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"But I needed validation."But before we can validate you we have to know your FEELINGS about this.What has the patio ever done to you?Why are you so mad at the patio?Are you sure that it is the patio and your are not just redirecting your anger from someplace else?http://eqi.org/valid.htmMyabe you need this rather than Breaktime.http://www.drjoy.com/
bustin' out that slab is anger management...
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sounds like you'll be doing that on yer own without any help from us...
note the no help item...
wholly crap is this alot of work. 10x18x6"!!! You didn't mention that part.
I have a footer to get out today and a 3 x8 x 4 block/concrete stair.
Frick!
I just had knee suregery 14 days aog to boot.
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Can't you get a bobcat with a jackhammer on it?
Bust it up, scoop it up, ride all day.
I probably should have gotten the bobcat. I can't imagine it would have costed much more than the tools I rented, and would've been alot quicker and easier.
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MOST times I don't think. I probably would have done the same as you. Most patios aren't that thick. I removed one once at a condo for a friend with an electric hammer. That thing had a footer around it! What's up with that? Took forever, but the hammer was the only thing I could use there.
Yep, get the bobcat AND the driver! When I tore out mine I did that - the guy was an artiste, did it much faster and cleaner than I could have as a novice operator; even graded the area afterwards with his bucket - came out perfect (1/4" per foot slope)with no additional hand grading needed. And ended up costing no more than if I had rented all the equipment myself.
Rent-a-grunt. (Or 2 or 3).
you gotta get ya a plan "B"
Didn't you get the memo? There is no Plan B!!
sure there is... been posted more than once.... hehehehehehehe...
"But I needed validation."
You're O.K. by me, if that helps.
My friend is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark until he was eight years old.
yur fine... sortta...
have at it...
ya done yet????
It's out.
So far 3 tons of concrete dumped. I have some clean-up left, and have to remove a stair slab on the front of the house. But moving right along
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cover the winows with plywood...
start in the center of the slab and work towards the house...
score cut the CC before you start with the hammering...
if you undermine the CC (remove a little dirt) as you go the CC will break very easily...
let us know what you find when ya get to the house foundation.
I think there should be a commitee forum meeting about this slab. You can redirect your cuts and hammer blows elsewhere. Slab Busters Anonymous.
Is that a capital g or a small g?