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How to get rid of a cinder block wall???? Lacustral 09-23-2007
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Posted by Steve Barker LT on September 23, 2007, 9:55 pm
The car idea was good. But the male way would be a sledge hammer.


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> How would you demo a small cinderblock wall? It's about 20 cinderblocks
> long, not attached to anything except to a section of wall I want - but
> there's a crack between the section I want to take out and the section I
> want, so that may be fine. It's about 3 cinderblocks high, the bottom
> cinderblock was apparently halfway buried in the ground as a footer. It's
> mortared. I don't know if it has any metal reinforcement, it probably
> doesn't need any.
>
> Laura



Posted by Harry K on September 23, 2007, 10:13 pm
On Sep 23, 3:37 pm, l...@adore.lightlink.com (Lacustral) wrote:
> How would you demo a small cinderblock wall? It's about 20 cinderblocks
> long, not attached to anything except to a section of wall I want - but
> there's a crack between the section I want to take out and the section I
> want, so that may be fine. It's about 3 cinderblocks high, the bottom
> cinderblock was apparently halfway buried in the ground as a footer. It's
> mortared. I don't know if it has any metal reinforcement, it probably
> doesn't need any.
>
> Laura

The simple way. Just start picking blocks off of it. A couple bumps
with the end of a 2x4 or 2x6 will usually loosen the mortar. Now if
the cores were poured you might have to do some beating on it with a
sledge hammer. Mortar is more of an 'evener' than a 'glue',

Harry K


Posted by RickH on September 24, 2007, 10:37 am
On Sep 23, 5:37 pm, l...@adore.lightlink.com (Lacustral) wrote:
> How would you demo a small cinderblock wall? It's about 20 cinderblocks
> long, not attached to anything except to a section of wall I want - but
> there's a crack between the section I want to take out and the section I
> want, so that may be fine. It's about 3 cinderblocks high, the bottom
> cinderblock was apparently halfway buried in the ground as a footer. It's
> mortared. I don't know if it has any metal reinforcement, it probably
> doesn't need any.
>
> Laura

Three Mexicans from you local Home Depot and it will be down and in
your dumpster in an hour.



Posted by terry on September 24, 2007, 11:08 am
> On Sep 23, 5:37 pm, l...@adore.lightlink.com (Lacustral) wrote:
>
> > How would you demo a small cinderblock wall? It's about 20 cinderblocks
> > long, not attached to anything except to a section of wall I want - but
> > there's a crack between the section I want to take out and the section I
> > want, so that may be fine. It's about 3 cinderblocks high, the bottom
> > cinderblock was apparently halfway buried in the ground as a footer. It's
> > mortared. I don't know if it has any metal reinforcement, it probably
> > doesn't need any.
>
> > Laura
>
> Three Mexicans from you local Home Depot and it will be down and in
> your dumpster in an hour.

If cinder blocks reasonably clean keep them or give them to someone
who can use them. We always have a few lying around here. Very useful
as extra blocks under if/when working on a car etc. In some areas just
stack em outside near the sidewalk and they'll be gone in the morning!
In windy condtions a cinder block or two hung on ropes can hold down a
tarpaulin over a roof etc. Keep a few anyway.


Posted by N8N on September 24, 2007, 12:13 pm
>
> > On Sep 23, 5:37 pm, l...@adore.lightlink.com (Lacustral) wrote:
>
> > > How would you demo a small cinderblock wall? It's about 20 cinderblocks
> > > long, not attached to anything except to a section of wall I want - but
> > > there's a crack between the section I want to take out and the section I
> > > want, so that may be fine. It's about 3 cinderblocks high, the bottom
> > > cinderblock was apparently halfway buried in the ground as a footer. It's

> > > mortared. I don't know if it has any metal reinforcement, it probably
> > > doesn't need any.
>
> > > Laura
>
> > Three Mexicans from you local Home Depot and it will be down and in
> > your dumpster in an hour.
>
> If cinder blocks reasonably clean keep them or give them to someone
> who can use them. We always have a few lying around here. Very useful
> as extra blocks under if/when working on a car etc. In some areas just
> stack em outside near the sidewalk and they'll be gone in the morning!
> In windy condtions a cinder block or two hung on ropes can hold down a
> tarpaulin over a roof etc. Keep a few anyway.

Real cinder blocks do not make good makeshift jackstands, countless
redneck jokes notwithstanding. It's rare, but possible that they may
crumble under the concentrated weight of a car frame sitting on them,
which would be bad if you happened to be underneath the car at the
time and still inconvenient even if you weren't.

nate


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