Garden wall removal pic added

tony6403

First run cuts with a 9" grinder down both sides of the wall on the line where you want the removal to begin. Then set to with a sledge hammer or SDS drill fitted with a chisel on the part to be downed.
That way you will have the minimum to make good on the retained part of the wall.

Jamie_Carter

Rapished wrote: »

Hi there is a wall running the length of a house, its between the driveway and the house as seen, the issue I have is its off a narrow one way road with it being to sharp a turn to get my van down the drive,

What would be the easiest way with no large machinery, to trim the wall back so its back next to where the house starts, then I can gate it and just have it enclosed from the house.

? would once of those big circle saws make mince of it?

Here the picture

Please don't use a disc cutter or grinder if you haven't used one before. They are highly dangerous in the wrong hands, especially if you do the cut wrong, and it snags, throwing it out of your hands.

Use a sledge hammer to knock the wall down, and the a bolster & club hammer to finish the bricks off at a post.

What are you planning on doing at ground level?

tony6403

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

Please don't use a disc cutter or grinder if you haven't used one before. They are highly dangerous in the wrong hands, especially if you do the cut wrong, and it snags, throwing it out of your hands.

Use a sledge hammer to knock the wall down, and the a bolster & club hammer to finish the bricks off at a post.

What are you planning on doing at ground level?

I would bet that you are very much more likely to hit your fingers/ hand using a hammer and bolster than you are to have a grinder thrown out of your hands.
Obviously be careful with a grinder but they are a good tool used in their many thousands.
I have used a grinder which slowly stalled but never had one which snagged.
I can't imagine how a tool running from 1,900 to 12,500 rpm can halt so suddenly that it is thrown from your hands.
Be interested to see if this has happened to anyone.

Jamie_Carter

tony6403 wrote: »

I would bet that you are very much more likely to hit your fingers/ hand using a hammer and bolster than you are to have a grinder thrown out of your hands.
Obviously be careful with a grinder but they are a good tool used in their many thousands.
I have used a grinder which slowly stalled but never had one which snagged.
I can't imagine how a tool running from 1,900 to 12,500 rpm can halt so suddenly that it is thrown from your hands.
Be interested to see if this has happened to anyone.

People who don't know how to use them properly will often just plunge cut, rather than use a sawing motion. This will make the cut a very tight fit for the blade. So only a fraction of a degree movement can cause the blade to grab. Then the momentum of the spinning blade can easily pull the cutter out of your hands.

This isn't uncommon, and can (and often does) result in serious injuries.

Anyone can use a club hammer and bolster, with very little risk of serious injury.

Own_My_Own

Rapished wrote: »

That house look like a space invader !

cyclonebri1

tony6403 wrote: »

First run cuts with a 9" grinder down both sides of the wall on the line where you want the removal to begin. Then set to with a sledge hammer or SDS drill fitted with a chisel on the part to be downed.
That way you will have the minimum to make good on the retained part of the wall.

Yep, same advice as earlier but the correct way round.

Did the op answer the question of whose wall it is? it's just that the boundary looks a strange shape?

Also, regardless, it would be a good idea to discuss this with the neighbour first, wars have broken out over less.
It will impact on them, and it would be a shame if you knocked it down, (assuming it is yours), only for them to rebuild it but 4" their way.:rotfl:

ed110220

Own_My_Own wrote: »

That house look like a space invader !

I always think those windows with two small openings at the top look like a grinning face!