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See also: Project – remove concrete and tiles from basement bathroom
Question to be answered: can I use the 4.5″ hand grinder with a masonry wheel to make a nice edge for the bottom on the deck stairs. Yes, can be done, but consumes too many masonry wheels! Will try diamond wheel we already own.
A quick 10 minute test:
1. cut concrete using 4.5″ grinder with masonry wheel
2. break concrete at cut line
3. break concrete into smaller chunks
4. cart broken concrete to a pile near trailer
So yes, but likely need to go a bit deeper with the cut; make line so it’s straight; don’t make the first sledgehammer blow right on the line;
2023-06-17 – attempted to make a line al the way across at the bottom of the stairs. easy enough to do, but still not very straight. took ~15mins, but consumed 2 masonry disks. the remaining cutting would likely take and hour and require 8 to 10 disks. And broke the sledgehammer handle, so need to replace anyway. Done! ~26$ at Crappy Tire.
2023-06-19 – will rent the below to do the cutting. is electric, so relatively quiet. maybe. will try diamond wheel first. not so much to do with cost, but the pia they require tool to be cleaned up on return! or save the money and use the diamond wheel on the 4.5″ grinder!
2023-07-30 – Paul and I busted up one section using sledgehammer and farm jack. took 1.5 hours, much work. pretty much all I could do. mucho pain in hands and feet next day. in reviewing the work, seems most of the effort is in busting the concrete, while humping ift from the backyard to the driveway is just steady repeatavice work
note: leave as much small concrete at possible to reduce amounot of soilwe need.
would be ideal to do one lift (ground-to-cart then dump into trailer), instead of groudd-to-cart then dpile then groun-to-trailer.
might be ideal work for labour ready or manpower if that’s still a thing?
need estimate of concrete mass, so we don’t break trailer or truck
maybe combine with taking away ther aluminim roof trash?
2023-08-01 – to be sure we don’t overload the trailer or truck, estimate weight of concrete; need measurements:
2023-08-02 – rented concrete breaker (Hilti??? ~50$); too small, takes ~30 seconds to cut; tried all three attachments, no joy.
rent a bigger breaker (Hilti ??? ~70$); works much better using spade bit. ~1.5 hours use results in the following; not quite complete. need another ~45mins
plan for Sunday coming.
See here for Youtube of Cedric busting concrete.
2023-08-13 – all concrete busted up; most of it is in the driveway pile.
Paul “Jackhammer Man” Istead is a machine!
perhaps bust up remaining chuck in place, since it might be less work to smash with sledgehammer, less to move out, less to buy, less to move in, etc.
sadly, these chunks of concrete do not easily break up. tried 5 hits with 10lb sldge, barely a dent. so this won’t work.
2023-08-31 – work to do:
2023-09-05 – all concrete removed to driveway in front of garage door.
2023-09-11 – all 12 bags (8 x 1/2″ gravel + 4 x limestone screenings) down.
maybe get 6 bags limestone screenings; easy to put in jeep, wheel into backyard, spread as needed; keep in mind the ramp needs very little, just a fresh top layer; need to screp off the remaining grass tufts on the ramp.
2023-09-19 – ~5/8th done loading concrete into bin. must be done by this Friday when bin is picked up. note that I picked these files in File Explorer in proper chron order. does this improve the order they show up in this gallery? sadly, nope, still seems random; so i manually re-ordered them.
2023-09-19 – to complete path, need more limestone screenings. Here’s the math on a yard vs. individual bags. I worry we don’t need 39 bags, and what to do with the leftovers.
Katherine sez Peterborough Landscape Supply is much (suspiciously much) cheaper at ~33$ / cu yard; with delivery $50, that’s ~83$ vs. Home Depot’s $245. I think HD’s comes in a nice bag (maybe we get to keep the bag?) whereas PLS might just make a pile. which is OK.
here i go again!
2023-09-24 – done! not much limestone screenings left.
