How To Demolish A Concrete Roof

Watch out for the sharp wire spikes left sticking out of the concrete chunks.

How to demolish a concrete roof.

Josh milner 4 apr 2016. Then cut the rest of the roof away a bit at a time and slid it off the edge. At this point grab the roof tear off shovel or pitchfork slide it under the top two rows of shingles and pry them up. When to cast floor slab before or after demolishing walls.

Throw removed shingles into your dumpster as you go. Demolishing outbuilding with concrete roof. The water is directed at the concrete at 20 000 psi and 10 to 15 gallons per minute for handheld guns. This begins with the corrugated roofing being carefully removed then followed by the walls.

Cut the mesh with a bolt cutter as you work. Remove the shingles using a hammer and pry bar or a roofing shovel. As ati advanced the demolition the broken pieces of concrete were lowered down to the ground quickly and efficiently. If the concrete contains rebar cut it with a reciprocating saw and metal blade or an angle grinder and metal cutoff wheel.

Noseall 22 sep 2013. Remove the ridge peak with the claw end of the hammer or prybar. The 4 inch solid concrete roof was joined to a mirror image on the neighbours side. I had the same thing on my house.

Concrete garage walls rarely contain traces of asbestos but corrugated roofing on buildings constructed before 1990 invariably do. This will reveal the top row of nails. Markstone80 20 dec 2013 in forum. Adman101 20 sep 2013 in forum.

As garage installers we are best placed to demolish concrete or asbestos wall garages in a methodical and safe way. The brokk proved light and nimble enough to break and demolish concrete at the roof level. It can cut clean lines or remove the surface as deeply as desired. So it s especially important to crack smaller sections.

The brokk robotic demolitionsystem proved to be the ideal solution to remove the damaged areas of the plant s roof. A brokk robotic hammer carefully chips away at a concrete roof as part of a plant expansion b. I put supports under the roof then used a petrol stihl saw to cut my roof away from the neighbours as close to the party wall as possible. Hydrodemolition is done with various devices from handheld guns to robotic equipment.

Pull off the underlayment and sheathing with a pry bar so that the rafters are exposed. To find the seam between sheathing boards try removing some of the underlayment.