[Closed] Any builders - help, how to remove brick car port?

That's a Bungalow, not a car port... IGMC

Lintel/steel from pillar to pillar?

Hard to tell with only half a pic taken several miles away.

Edit: Weird. Half my post never posted. Bit missing was more or less what Nick said.

To remove I'd chip off some render to see what kind of lintel there is. Then support the opening on some acrows or a timber stack and maybe run a large disc cutter part way through, finish off with a big hammer. You could do it a little more delicately if you don't want to damage the garage at all. Start from the top and knock it down brick by brick. I'd still run then disk cutter part way through to minimise transfer to the garage.

Stihl and a wobbly ladder tis the only way.......please set up camera! 😉

Big hammer.

Reckon I'll try and chip away as much brick/render as I can first then. Bolster and mallet? I guess the lintel would be sitting on a brick pillar on the right hand side... so I wouldn't want to chip away anything on the pillar until the lintel's dealt with right?

Hold a prayer meeting in it?

I'd do it from above rather than below if that helps 🙂

I'd do it from above

Bombs would be great

apparently he was OK

apparently he was OK

😯

If he was ok, he was very very lucky.

Edit: From the comments:

i nearly lost my leg it was that badly broken, all of the ligaments and tendons in my left knee were severed and the bone was smashed, so was the cartiledge in my knee. pretty horrific really!?

Top down not like the other guy who is lucky to be alive.

Bombs would be great

You'll be wanting a shaped charge rather than just an ordinary bomb.

put a sign up "Free parking for xxxx*" and I'm sure someone will eventually knock it down for you.

*choose your own subset of the motoring population here

Free parking for mountain bikers with roof racks

Cut brake hoses?

Tie a strong chain to the top of the car port and the other end to the back of your car. Drive as fast as possible away from the car port.

What could possibly go wrong?

[I]Top down not like the other guy who is lucky to be alive. [/I]

Yep. My old man went around to his mates once to help him knock down the old air raid shelter that was in his back garden - found him knocking the bricks out, from the inside (while the foot thick concrete roof was still on)...

Similar tale from one of our local characters. Went to knock an old two storey building down. It'd been the original farmhouse on the property and been in a fire in the 70s or 80s.

They reckon he'd been under the wreckage for 12 hours before the services were called. Took another couple of hours to dig him out. Mild concussion and dust inhalation issues. Other than that he was fine.

Dropped a car on himself last autumn. Not such a good outcome.

If its brick under that render just use one of these

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Better still

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Or similar, shocking how quick you can take walls down with one 😀

And as promised, took about 5hrs and I've still to go back and deal with the untold amount of base material plus the remnants of the pillar. Dust mask and goggles clagged up so I ended up making do without...glad this is a one off! Sliced the whole thing up with the 9" disc. Pics on the way

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That's impressively neat demolition.

Good job. I'd have hired a JCB and hit it with the shovel bit. That's why I work in an office!

Me too. Which is why I work in an office and would be writing this from hospital

Aldi had a big ass breaker in store last week. Might be useful for getting shot of the base but on the other hand it might just be easier to get a mini digger in.

I've spent most of the day on the base with a mattock. Borrowed the roofers breaker for the post remnants. I hadn't banked on the base being much higher than the driveway so there has been a load of slabs, bricks, soil and rubble to load into the skip. The body's tired.