The contractor was able to cut from the house sill framing to the concrete footing at the bottom.
How to cut through poured concrete wall.
My plan here was to bury the knocked out concrete wall slab under the future concrete floor.
Get a friend to hold one end while you hold the other and run the line over the region to be cut.
When you re cutting concrete that is already poured and finished use a chalk line to mark the region.
Designate the area of finished concrete to be cut using chalk lines.
Lift the line simultaneously from each end and slap it to the ground.
I dug the dirt outside the foundation wall 10 deeper than i would normally dig.
6 move to the other side of the.
If your cut doesn t need to be exact use a cold chisel and hand sledge to cut the concrete.
Start at the top of the opening and cut carefully along the lines you made on the wall.
Don t force a blade into a cut.
Line up the blade of a concrete saw over the marks on one side of the wall.
This process took approximately one hour to complete.
A circular saw is used to make entry through a cinder block wall into the future waiting room of a hospital.
This is the first cut through the wall.
Once both sides ware cut he used a sledge hammer and some wedges to knock the wall out of position and into the pre dug hole awaiting outside.
A circular saw with a masonry blade can also be used to either score or completely cut through the block.