How To Cut Poured Concrete Wall

Ignore any rebar you come across and just break the concrete free of the metal.

How to cut poured concrete wall.

Close up of cutting a door in a concrete foundation with a wet saw. A circular saw with a masonry blade can also be used to either score or completely cut through the block. Break the concrete wall into small chunks with your preferred tool and let the debris fall to the ground as you work. Using a metal jointing tool the.

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. Measure from the edge of your concrete footing to the point where the outside face of your wall will be. The contractor was able to cut from the house sill framing to the concrete footing at the bottom. I dug the dirt outside the foundation wall 10 deeper than i would normally dig.

These joints should be cut in a quarter of the depth of the concrete slab during the very beginning of the curing process within 24 hours of the initial pour. Score the length of the cut three or four times with the chisel. So if your wall is 8 inches wide your two nails should be 8 inches apart. If your cut doesn t need to be exact use a cold chisel and hand sledge to cut the concrete.

Don t force a blade into a cut. This process took approximately one hour to complete. Line up the blade of a concrete saw over the marks on one side of the wall.