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I deliberately destroyed part of my house last night. It was brilliant fun.
The under-stairs cupboard was boxed in by the builders into a space about 4ft deep and 5ft high meaning that you opened the door and looked straight into a board, having to duck to get into the thing.
So I ripped out all the boarding to make it go all the way back to the bottom of the stairs and all the way up to the ceiling. Tons more room now.
I tried to remove all the pieces whole, but it proved impossible so I ended up having to saw great big holes in the walls and kick bits of it down. Quite surprised at how much fun this was!
I tore down the outside brickshithouse when we had the extenstion (south wing) built, had to stand on top of it and cut grooves in the concrete roof with a disc cutter, then split it all up with a sledge and wedge, ace dusty noisy messy fun.
nothing like a bit of wanton destruction to bring out the inner savage.
GrrrrRRRRRRRRRR! 😉
that was a load-bearing cupboard and now your house will fall down
that or your stairs will collapse if you have chunky people over for dinner and they demand to use the upstairs toilet.
There used to be walls. Rarrrrrgghghhh!
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2 months with a sledgehammer and a shovel is the best core body training you could ever do!
Gave my son and a couple of his mates some cans of Red Bull and rubber mallets and asked them to 'dismantle' our old garden shed.
15 mins later it was down and in small enough pieces to fit in the back of the car.
Result.
why ever would one invite chunky people for dinner ? 😯
why ever would one invite chunky people for dinner ?
In the (possibly) forthcoming post apocalyptic wasteland, largely for their calorific value.
I also need to remove a shed. I was considering simply smashing it up with a hammer, or perhaps buying one of those electric saws.
I'll probably just take it down by pushing it gently, since that's all it'll take I reckon.
i dont invite chubbyfunsters to my house, if there was a fire blocking the front door they'd be trapped as our patio door opens about 12-14inches. its fantastic as it means a few of mrsconsequences uni friends have been crossed off the invite list to bbqs etc for fear of embarrassing them by telling them they have to walk around the the front door if they want to go inside and use the bathroom lol
I demolished my old shed this week, lots of fun. New shed arrives tomorrow 🙂
I once had an agency job in Sydney whilst travelling and we turned up to an office over a whole floor which had been partitioned off into offices and cubicles, we were each handed a big sledgehammer and told to 'flatten everything'. Best days 'work' i've ever done. I was amazed they were willing to pay us to do it, i'd have done it for free it was so much fun!
Wanton destruction is awesome.
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The knocking down was fun, the cleaning up less so
When our new sofa was delivered I decided to take the old one to the dump straight away as it was knackered.
I couldn't fit it in the car so decided to 'dismantle' it.
I decided to see how far I could get tearing it to pieces with my bare hands...I got quite far before I had to resort to a sledge hammer.
I think I frightened my elderly neighbour though as while I was taking running kicks at the chair and grimacing while trying to rip the arms off in my hands, I saw her peering between her living room curtains.
On a related note, a friend of mine lived and worked in Germany for a while (with a girlfriend) and worked with her brother as part of a building demolishion crew.
He loved it...he didn't speak much German and they didn't speak much English. Apparently the foreman would just point at a wall and my mate would go to work...after stopping off at the van to choose his weapons.
He got told off once when he destroyed a load of partition walls with a chainsaw.
Are you constructing an Inner Core or Refuge?
I decided to see how far I could get tearing it to pieces with my bare hands...I got quite far before I had to resort to a sledge hammer.
Bravo, my experience with sofa's is that there bloody tough! I found a saw and a touch of brute force was the best option. 😀
Here I am - set to finish work at 2.30 and now all I want to do it go wild with a hammer.
I don't need to do any DIY.
I don't need to do any DIY.
I don't need to do any DIY.
I don't need to do any DIY.
I don't need to do any DIY.
I don't need to do any DIY.
I decided to see how far I could get tearing it to pieces with my bare hands...I got quite far before I had to resort to a sledge hammer.
Bravo indeed - good sofas are built to last. I worked up a sweat just breaking up the footstool on our old one 🙂
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Got one in a 18v set and it's been very useful. Old shed cut up, tree pruning, you name it.
To be honest, it was a crap sofa and creaked etc when you sat on it.
It faught back a little as I got a few splinters and some cuts from the various nails etc that were stuck in it.
I've pulle ddown a couple of fireplaces, hard work, though if I'd been in the right mood at the time I imagine it would have been great!
Tempted to fill my old shed with gas and install a cooker lighter in it.
Removed a kitchen a few weeks back.
Best game was 'how few hammer blows to dismantle a unit'?
Two was the answer 😀
A friend of mine decided to hack back some old plaster and lath, get back to sound materials and surfaces and replaster. Two weeks later he had...... 4 exterior walls. Thats it. No roof, windows, doors or floors.
Lol!
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Big hole in ceiling not visible in first pic, taking cast iron bath out and down a flight of stairs with just two folk nearly killed us!!
You can smash up cast iron baths...makes them somewhat easier to shift.
A friend of mine got a job while living in Germany as a Building Destroyer.
The rest of the people didn't speak much English so his foreman would point at something and say "Knock zat down", and my mate would trundle off to the van and pick an appropriate tool.
Usually a sledge hammer, but on one occasion he got told off for using a chainsaw to remove the stud partition walls from an entire floor in an office. Apparently it had a new blade and they were saving it.
He quite enjoyed it...plus he went from a skinny guy to a muscley guy in 6 months!
[quote=McHamish ]A friend of mine got a job while living in Germany as a Building Destroyer.
The rest of the people didn't speak much English so his foreman would point at something and say "Knock zat down", and my mate would trundle off to the van and pick an appropriate tool.
Usually a sledge hammer, but on one occasion he got told off for using a chainsaw to remove the stud partition walls from an entire floor in an office. Apparently it had a new blade and they were saving it.
He quite enjoyed it...plus he went from a skinny guy to a muscley guy in 6 months!
you posted that further up this thread, several months ago 😉
now now nbt don't mock the poor man, old age comes to us all eventually