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.

Measure out from that nail to where the other face of your wall will be and place another nail. A circular saw with a masonry blade can also be used to either score or completely cut through the block. Close up of cutting a door in a concrete foundation with a wet saw. Line up the blade of a concrete saw over the marks on one side of the wall.

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. 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.

Drive a nail into the concrete here. I dug the dirt outside the foundation wall 10 deeper than i would normally dig. Don t force a blade into a cut. Using a metal jointing tool the.

Score the length of the cut three or four times with the chisel. 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. This process took approximately one hour to complete.