Paging the (motor possibly) bike shed experts.

Now I've decided to stay here for a few more years an extra shed for the
lad to use as static bicycle repair man HQ is urgently required. It will
have to go on the site of the old brick/timber greenhouse. That is down
to the brick walls only and theoretically I could get an 8 x 6 foot shed
within it IYSWIM. That would save a load of work but I'm thinking it
might not be good for the T&G shed walls as they wouldn't breathe so
well.

I've got to get a skip to take the remains of the two old fireplaces we
are having removed so I guess I really ought to bite the bullet and set
to demolishing it, then I could get a 10 x 6 or even 10 x 8. It was
suggested that the bricks might have value to someone but they aren't
the local specialist baggeridge jobbies so I doubt it.

Would my pikey Aldi air chisel help or would my Clarke's Tiger
compressor drive a proper Kango hammer?

An exploratory bash with a lump hammer reveals it's all rather too well
built with 9 inch solid walls to come down very easily.

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Well the chisel will work, it's just a matter of how long you're prepared to
wield it and how long your neighbours could stand the racket.

I can't imagine the Tiger compressor being anywhere near man enough to
handle a good sized Kango though, but I bet there are cordless doobries that
can be hired.

9 inchers are always a fucker. I've heard.

 

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:42:17 +0000, Pete Fisher

snip>

You won't get the flow rate out of a small compressor to power a
decent Kango.

Just get hold of a decent 14lb sledgehammer and you'll have it down in
a morning. Failing that you could go to your local HSS and hire a
cutter and just slice it up in half the time.

 

I suspected as much.

A pity Aldi aren't knocking pikey ones out at the moment. I've got a
maul at 'the chateau' that might do the business, particularly if I do a
bit of nibbling at one corner with the air chisel and an old pick axe
first. Given the long range weather forecast I can't see me attacking it
until after my February trip to take the climbing wall boards and
hopefully refurbished chainsaw anyway.

At least I have a decent barrow to get the bricks to a skip and the lad
will have to agree to help or get no workshop.



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I doubt it (X2)

A 10kg demolition hammer (electric) is what you want, something like this

http://www.toolstop.co.uk/dewalt-d25901k-10kg-low-vibration-demolition-hammer-240v-p6992

You can hire them for about 30 quid a day. I reckon you'd have the lot down
in about an hour and another hour to chop the rubble into heaveable sized
lumps.

HTH

 

Not much if the brick's solid. I got through two pikey air chisels
before I saw the light & bought a FOAD SDS.

For very short periods at a time, maybe. Just hire an electric concrete
breaker (or buy a decent SDS), it'll make life so much easier.

 

Hmm, I can use some of the rubble as hard core for a new concrete shed
base. A trip to HSS might indeed be the best bet.

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I've seen the light. I can hire one to do also get down one of the
fireplace surrounds (York stone) at the same time. The other on is a
FOAD original cast concrete with glazed tiles in situ job from 1924.
Must have taken several strong in the arm black country blokes or a
crane to lift it in to place. I'm leaving that one to the bloke putting
the new ones in to cut up.


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I bet one of the sheddi would like the bricks.

X-posted.

 

I have a 5 x 7 shed free to a good home.
Must be dismantled and removed before Xmas.
Near Weston Super Mare.

 

Memememememe!

But I bet they're nowhere near Snorfolk thobut.

 

UKRM is at least as good as UKRS at organising Underground Railway
transfers. In this case, though, perhaps a more community-spirited
enterprise could be arranged. I'm in for a wasted weekend taking a train
somewhere, knocking down a brick wall, helping to drive the remains
somewhere else, drinking some beer, and taking a train homewards again.
You meet a nicer class of people that way...

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I once demolished a chapel with a hammer and chisel [1}
Just start taking them off the top with the chisel under them and you'll
be surprised how quick it all comes down.
Or just hire an electric demolition hammer

 

1. I wouldn't, now; recommend this approach for chapels...

 

Yes, but did you turn them into a useful car parking space afterwards?

 

I did tentatively float the idea of a "demolition party" a couple of
years ago, but that would work better once spring has sprung. Inertia
will probably take hold again until then anyway so watch this space.



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Having just watched a repeat of Clarkson's "Greatest Raid of All"
documentary Amatol might be the most rapid if rather messy strategy and
also enlist the help of the Blaster Bates enthusiasts , but for the sake
of anybody 'official' listening in that was joke OK.

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You can **** off, I'm not ready for another stroke yet.

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Why not build the shed on top of the walls?

 

In communiqué <>, Grimly

I did think of that, with a very low 'cellar' for storage or drowing
'shrooms, but I don't think the nearest neighbour to it would be very
happy. The existing sheds are screened well by trellis on top of a very
old wall festooned with climbing plants. One time when SWMBO was
trimming them they made a point of saying not to cut them back too much
as they "screen your ugly shed and greenhouses". She resisted a "don't
worry we still want to hide your ugly house" reply. The walls are a good
2 feet high, so even a low pitched roof high enough to allow space to
work inside would poke up well in to their line of sight and I don't
want to get the Planning Officer involved.
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