How To Demolish A Concrete Roof

Josh milner 4 apr 2016.

How to demolish a concrete roof.

This begins with the corrugated roofing being carefully removed then followed by the walls. At this point grab the roof tear off shovel or pitchfork slide it under the top two rows of shingles and pry them up. A brokk robotic hammer carefully chips away at a concrete roof as part of a plant expansion b. The brokk proved light and nimble enough to break and demolish concrete at the roof level.

So it s especially important to crack smaller sections. Noseall 22 sep 2013. Remove the shingles using a hammer and pry bar or a roofing shovel. Get a heavy duty hauler.

I had the same thing on my house. As garage installers we are best placed to demolish concrete or asbestos wall garages in a methodical and safe way. If the concrete contains rebar cut it with a reciprocating saw and metal blade or an angle grinder and metal cutoff wheel. As ati advanced the demolition the broken pieces of concrete were lowered down to the ground quickly and efficiently.

Markstone80 20 dec 2013 in forum. The brokk robotic demolitionsystem proved to be the ideal solution to remove the damaged areas of the plant s roof. Hydrodemolition is done with various devices from handheld guns to robotic equipment. Watch out for the sharp wire spikes left sticking out of the concrete chunks.

To find the seam between sheathing boards try removing some of the underlayment. When to cast floor slab before or after demolishing walls. Then cut the rest of the roof away a bit at a time and slid it off the edge. Demolishing outbuilding with concrete roof.

It can cut clean lines or remove the surface as deeply as desired. Hire a breaker from your local hire shop and jackhammer the concrete first then use an angle grinder to cut through the steel rebar if you want a straight cut use a diamond blade on your grinder and score the concrete first to a depth of 10 20mm. Adman101 20 sep 2013 in forum. Cut the mesh with a bolt cutter as you work.

The 4 inch solid concrete roof was joined to a mirror image on the neighbours side. Throw removed shingles into your dumpster as you go. Concrete garage walls rarely contain traces of asbestos but corrugated roofing on buildings constructed before 1990 invariably do. Remove the ridge peak with the claw end of the hammer or prybar.

Pull off the underlayment and sheathing with a pry bar so that the rafters are exposed. Depending on the age this is actually a relatively quick way to remove the shingles.