Best way to demo this brick?

SRSemenza said:
  This may or may not be useful for this particular job but ...............................................  I recently bought a  Fiskars ISOCORE club hammer. There is a 3 lb and a 4 lb  and I think a couple sledges. I got the 4 lb 14" model.

  The thing that is different is that the wedge / cross peen runs  front to back instead of left right like on an engineers hammer. So when you strike, the debris that goes flying mostly goes to the sides rather than into your face. The feature does work. You still need protection but it helps a lot to keep chips from hitting you. I have used it for a couple break up tasks.

    Nice hammer in general too.

Seth

Ive used a sledge with that feature, awsome tool for breaking up a concrete floor or breaking rocks up.

Big rocks are better broken apart with "Feathers and Wedges"
 
It’s a bit of brick and mortar removal, not a major undertaking!
If the OP has an SDS and vacuum, plus mask and ear defenders he’s away, otherwise a club hammer and bolster (brick set) and a clean up afterwards. It’s a simple job, no need to over complicate it  [wink]
 
Hopefully it's done and cleaned up by now----if not back to the explosives....

Tom
 
tjbnwi said:
Hopefully it's done and cleaned up by now----if not back to the explosives....

Like how Jamie of the Mythbusters always used to say .... when in doubt: C4.  [big grin]
 
Alex said:
tjbnwi said:
Hopefully it's done and cleaned up by now----if not back to the explosives....

Like how Jamie of the Mythbusters always used to say .... when in doubt: C4.  [big grin]

That guy liked explosives just a little too much. :-)

That was a good show.
 
Done:
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That massive, un-insulated hole held a wood stove chimney long ago. The smaller hole beneath it was for a pellet stove chimney. The additional holes I can only surmise were caused by local vermin.

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This photo doesn't do the brick pile justice. It's enormous and will be another project altogether to dispose of it.

Thought I could use the Bosch Bulldog rotary hammer I won at an industrial auction for $30 but sadly it didn't have a hammer-only mode. So went the tool rental route, initially renting a 1" SDS-plus rotary hammer thinking I could use a 2" chisel bit I already had on hand. It wasn't powerful enough - I'm guessing it was a combination of the relative small size of the roto hammer and the wide chisel bit. As was earlier noted here, point bits or
 

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SDS-Max rotary hammer or my demo hammer with chisel bits, then my 5in concrete surface grinder hooked up to my CT36AC and it's done with minimal dust mess.
 
"Oh, and if anyone has any ideas on how to dispose of that brick pile (cheaply), I'm all ears! "

Got a low spot in the back yard? Dig it up and bury those brick with at least 2 feet of cover so the lawn won't die in the heat of Summer. :-)

If I didn't have a dump trailer or want to dispose of it myself I think these would be my choices:

1. Go to Home Depot (may also be available at Lowes) and buy one of those big green dumpster bags. Fill it up and ring them up and you're done. I think they are from Waste Management and called Bagster or something like that. In my area it's $175 for up to 3300 pounds. Additional bags picked up at the same time are $150.

2. You might try a local asphalt plant, they may take it, grind it up, and use it. I don't know if they will use brick (probably too soft) but I have taken old asphalt and concrete to them and didn't cost me a dime to drop it off.

3. Did you price a small roll-off dumpster? It might be cheaper than hauling it to the dump yourself.

 
Bob D. said:
Go to Home Depot (may also be available at Lowes) and buy one of those big green dumpster bags. Fill it up and ring them up and you're done. I think they are from Waste Management and called Bagster or something like that. In my area it's $175 for up to 3300 pounds. Additional bags picked up at the same time are $150.

Bob, good call on Bagster. I think that's my best bet. Bags are $30 and pickup in my area is about $150. Plus I don't have to worry about scratching up the pickup truck bed with brick.
 
Second bagsters, I use them often.

Bob beat me to the bury comment.  While it will bite you down the road when you dig something that just happens to be where you buried the brick, it is an option.

You can also try a few bricks at a time in the trash each week till it is gone.

 
DeformedTree said:
You can also try a few bricks at a time in the trash each week till it is gone.

Or try FREE on Craigs List...always entertaining to find out how much pain people will endure.  [big grin]

Lately, I've been ripping out various metal items and placing them on the boulevard with a scrap sign on the box...incredibly within 2-6 hours, all the items have been taken away. There is a God.  [big grin] [big grin]
 
Cheese is right, always worth a try giving them away on CL or FB Marketplace.

I took down 20 trees at my last house. I was working nights and every day at
about 9am I would push down a couple trees with the backhoe and cut them
up with the chainsaw, then haul the stuff to the curb where I had a sign
that read:

FREE FIREWOOD
DON'T LEAVE A MESS

At 2 PM I left for work. When I got home the first night at Midnight the wood was all gone and there was no mess.

So I did it again the next day, same result. I kept going till all the trees were down and the wood was gone.

I didn't have to haul the wood away and I got to take the trees down at my pace without making a mess of my property. Someone got a couple winters worth of wood for free, never found out who and don't care.

Didn't get any money for the wood but I wasn't looking for that. If someone grabbed it and sold it I'm good with that, the wood didn't go to waste and maybe someone who needed the money was able to turn that pile of wood into a few dollars.
 
I have a Harbor Freight hammer drill with pure hammer mode.  I have used it to take down one chimney, a brick veneer wall, and a mortar bed shower.  The shower was by far the worst.  All made a mess but it wasn't that hard to clean up. 

I saved a bunch of brick from my demo work and some done for me on a garage expansion.  If I do not use them fairly soon I will take to the local waste collection site.  They take construction debris without charge.  If I took it straight to the dump, I'd have to pay by weight.  It's also 5 miles to the collection site versus 25 miles to the dump. 
 
Nobody is taking me up on the free brick, can you believe it???

Here's an update of my carpet patch. In my defense, this is the first time I've ever patched carpet and I watched ONE whole YouTube video on how to do it. (Using carpet seam tape and my clothes iron with a wet t-shirt in between, seems to have adhered nicely.)

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Making that seam invisible is an art form and I'm sure comes with a good amount of experience. My big problem was just cutting it accurately. Slipped the big patch underneath the existing hole and used that as my guide to cut the patch. Learned about halfway through it's way easier when you "part" the carpet using a straightedge. Also, cutting from the back is 10x easier, so if I was smarter I would have made just a small number of tiny reference cuts from the top, and then flipped it over to make the long cuts with a straightedge as a guide. Really doesn't matter as this area will be covered by a large L-shaped desk anyhow.

On to the drywall tomorrow.

Got any ideas on a temporary "cover" for that hole in the wall? I'll have a desk against it, so I was thinking something like a cork board could be a nice functional cover. Here's a very poor simulation of how the desk will be positioned:

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Glad you got the brickwork out ok, and I’ve seen much worse carpet joins than yours.
If it’s temporary, you could cover the hole with some 1/4” ply, and cork over the top.
 
Does the desk have to go in that orientation?

If you rotated it CCW 90° and slid it over so the right wing is butted up to the wall over the access panel then the whole area you need to 'cover' would be exposed. Build a bookcase to cover and fill that space.
 
But to put your desk there and an office chair that goes back and forth over your little patch is a sure way to destroy it real quick.
 
The carpet patch looks good...after some foot traffic and some vacuuming it'll start to disappear.

How about a black magnetic chalkboard? 
 
How about a small dumpster/skip box.

They'll drop it off you load it and they'll come get it.
 
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