I’m looking to remove the walls of a sunroom that was originally an outdoor porch. The house is stucco and the original porch was stucoo as well. The house is a 100 yr colonial. in the 1970s the owner of the house decided to enclose the sunroom and make it part of the inside of the house although uninsulated.. I want to remove these walls and insulate the space.. What type of tool do I use to remove the stucco.. I research makita hammer drills (medium duty) which I can rent at my local hardware store. Will this work? what type of bit should I get for it spade or point? Thank you in advance for your response..
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"I'm looking to remove the walls of a sunroom that was originally an outdoor porch. The house is stucco and the original porch was stucoo as well. The house is a 100 yr colonial. in the 1970s the owner of the house decided to enclose the sunroom and make it part of the inside of the house although uninsulated.. I want to remove these walls and insulate the space"
gh2,
The walls you want to remove, are they the old exterior walls of the original house? In other words, you want to leave the exterior porch walls, yet insulate them.........and open up the house to this porch?
The walls you wish to remove are probably bearing walls and you need to engineer what you're going to use to hold up whats above.
Or, you're wanting to open up the porch walls in order to insulate them?
Is this stucco over board sheeting or masonry? Over board, you could knock it loose with a sledge or get behind it with bars and pry off.
How this all pans out in light of the new Lead Laws would make for an interesting discussion. As a homowner you are not required to adhere to the EPA techniques, but are urged to do so............
You're welcome.
You would be well advised to study the guidelines and some technique's offered by the EPA especially if there are small children or pregnant women in the household. Believe me, it's not that much different than the way I do jobs-as far as dust containment. But, knowing the minor amounts necessary to do damage was eye opening. I don't like the thought of working over visqueen, but will do what I can to follow the program.
I sat in class with several window replacement guys. They bemoaned the fact that it would add "time and expense" to their window jobs. While that is true, I kept trying to turn the conversation in the direction of the full service remodeler where protecting 10 ft from the source of debris is a spit in the bucket. Tear outs evolve some times. Full containment and collection is an ongoing process.
Best of luck.