The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:37 am**

Hi, great web site!
First posting, Iâ€™m just starting my own project, doing the donkey work before hopefully getting a pro in to do the blocks, but after spending time on this site itâ€™s giving me the confidence to have a go. Maybe!

Anyway back to my problem, living in a 30â€™s semi Iâ€™ve started to clear the front and want to have the blocks up to the front of the house where there is wide block of â€˜concreteâ€™, in sections, (see picâ€™s) which I first thought, get a breaker and remove. I started and found the concrete had a top (approx 25mm) layer and then a thicker layer below. Iâ€™ve been told that it could be structural to the property and not just a slab. I canâ€™t find any info, can anybody help? Can it be removed?

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/6643908

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:13 pm**

Can't for the life of me see that as structural.......going on what I see in those images.

Rip it up!

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:44 pm**

very very unlikely that that concrete is structural
smash it out
LLL

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:36 pm**

alot of 1930s semi had that type of concrete around the house as a pathway . but to be on the safe side break a section out by the house if you can still see brick behind rip it all out . hope this helps my house also 1930s had sme type of old path

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:49 pm**

Many thanks all.
Will chop a section out next weekend and if all OK out comes the breaker!!!!

Cheers.

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:15 pm**

What breaker are you using? JCB Beaverpack?

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:09 am**

Dave,
From the first picture it looks like a Hilti 110V jobby as hired from most good (and some not so) rental shops, but I may be wrong....

Mike

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:02 am**

looks more like a good old 950 kango from before they started making them out of plastic...bdinkadinkadinkadinkadinkadink

go for silly money 70 quid on ebay, new carbon brushes at about 8 quid, and bob's yer uncle, another noisy new toy to annoy the neighbours with

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:09 pm**

Mikey_C wrote:Dave,
From the first picture it looks like a Hilti 110V jobby as hired from most good (and some not so) rental shops, but I may be wrong....

Mike

Ah, I missed the little chap lent up against the wall in the first pic!

My excuse? I was tired!

The Brew Cabin

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