Concrete Slab

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hampshire-370z

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42 posts

76 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Hi,

The greenhouse is being collected tomorrow, so what would be the best way of removing this slab it is sitting on? Looks like it is breeze blocks with some concrete around the edges? Sledgehammer? Or, is this something I'd need to get a builder in for



Pamoothican

266 posts

93 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Depends if you are a 'powerfully built company director' type or not.

C0ffin D0dger

3,440 posts

146 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Get a builder in, where's the fun in that? Sledge hammer, or if it's proper solid hire a breaker from your local hire shop, often cheap on the weekends as builders don't work then.

Jonboy_t

5,038 posts

184 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Mahoosive angel grinder! Chop it into 1ft squares and pick axe them out.

Depending where in Hampshire you are (assuming you're username refers to location!), I have a 12" grinder (oo err wink) you can borrow for it. Am in Southampton.

guindilias

5,245 posts

121 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Who the hell puts up a slab like that for... a greenhouse?

anonymous-user

55 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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guindilias said:
Who the hell puts up a slab like that for... a greenhouse?
The person who sold the OP his house?

FredClogs

14,041 posts

162 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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I suspect its a perimeter of blocks filled up with ste and hardcore, some sands on top and then the paving slabs. Hire a small skip, get a sleeve hammer, shovel and wheel barrow and keep the tea and biscuits coming.

LeadFarmer

7,411 posts

132 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Just start hitting it with the biggest tool you have, sledge hammer, pick axe.... I reckon it will break up quite easily once you've chipped away at it.

B17NNS

18,506 posts

248 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Hire an SDS Max breaker for the day.

dazwalsh

6,095 posts

142 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Sledge hammer will have that broke up in no time

hampshire-370z

Original Poster:

42 posts

76 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Thanks everyone, and cheers Jonboy_t for the kind offer - I will give the sledgehammer a go and see how I get on first smile

Pete Franklin

839 posts

182 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Why hire a breaker when you can buy one from skrewfix for 150 quid. You will own the most manly tool to brag about down the pub...

King Herald

23,501 posts

217 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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hampshire-370z said:
Thanks everyone, and cheers Jonboy_t for the kind offer - I will give the sledgehammer a go and see how I get on first smile
Start at one corner, don’t go pounding away right in the middle. It’ll break up far easier.

mintybiscuit

2,818 posts

146 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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King Herald said:
Start at one corner, don’t go pounding away right in the middle. It’ll break up far easier.
Much like making love to a a beautiful woman !! wink

Edited by mintybiscuit on Friday 26th January 23:21

DrDeAtH

3,588 posts

233 months

Saturday 27th January 2018
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Pete Franklin said:
Why hire a breaker when you can buy one from skrewfix for 150 quid. You will own the most manly tool to brag about down the pub...
It will hardly be anything but manly at that price....

This would be manly....


sunbeam alpine

6,945 posts

189 months

Saturday 27th January 2018
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You know that dynamite is the only way to go.........



.....plus if you film it and get enough Youtube views, it will pay for the damage. smile

DonkeyApple

55,350 posts

170 months

Saturday 27th January 2018
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garyhun said:
guindilias said:
Who the hell puts up a slab like that for... a greenhouse?
The person who sold the OP his house?
Shortly after his wife went missing in mysterious circumstances. wink

OP, I had a similar dilemma with regards to a big concrete slab that an aviary had been placed on. Lacking time I had several workmen round and I became very bored with their whinging about how difficult a job it might be. They were just massive whinging girls acting like teeth sucking turd IT tits or car mechanics fixating on the devastating problem and who would have done it and not realising that the only reason they were there was to say yes or no to the job of removing the slab.

Anyway, Christmas cake and went and as Spring was approaching I started thinking about trying to find more workmen and in the end I just went to the barn, picked up the sledge hammer and last Saturday morning broke it up in less than 90 minutes. And thoroughly enjoyed do it.

So, after all that waffle, I’m with the people who are saying just smash it up yourself and order a mini skip to dispose of it. Far more rewarding. Plus the downside risk is that you end up having to hire a power tool which is classic winning.

hairyben

8,516 posts

184 months

Saturday 27th January 2018
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Pete Franklin said:
Why hire a breaker when you can buy one from skrewfix for 150 quid. You will own the most manly tool to brag about down the pub...
yes

If space to store isn't too much of an issue and there's a likelihood you'll want to use it again periodically then buying budget beats hiring for just about anything construction related.

Hirings expensive, it amazes me how many firms hire stuff all the time paying the purchase price multiple times over.

tog

4,545 posts

229 months

Saturday 27th January 2018
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hairyben said:
Hirings expensive, it amazes me how many firms hire stuff all the time paying the purchase price multiple times over.
Accounting trickery. Hiring means you have an allowable expense, buying means you own a depreciating asset which you have had to pay for up front. I'm no accountant, but it must work better for some businesses that way, especially if you can charge the hire costs to the client.

hairyben

8,516 posts

184 months

Saturday 27th January 2018
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tog said:
hairyben said:
Hirings expensive, it amazes me how many firms hire stuff all the time paying the purchase price multiple times over.
Accounting trickery. Hiring means you have an allowable expense, buying means you own a depreciating asset which you have had to pay for up front. I'm no accountant, but it must work better for some businesses that way, especially if you can charge the hire costs to the client.
yes those are the reasons, but they're still completely insane and an exercise in peddling bullcrap, yet another example of how idiotic the UK building industry is - in the fallout of the biggest contractor basically running out of money.