Timeline for How to demolish old stone walls safely?
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| Mar 13, 2021 at 14:37 | history | edited | LeAnn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2021 at 2:31 | comment | added | Criggie | If the site is old enough - it may count as Historic. Need to check with the local council/authority that there is no historic classification here. | |
| Mar 13, 2021 at 1:59 | comment | added | Mazura | #1 is slow, but #2 is the dangerous way to do it... "sling shots" +1. #3 would be rent a machine. #2 is out of the question, so you're either up on a ladder (which is where I'd be), or shelling out big bucks and screwing up all the grass. | |
| Mar 13, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDIY/status/1370525066283388932 | ||
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| Mar 12, 2021 at 22:01 | comment | added | Polypipe Wrangler | The local laws might not permit the demolition of old structures such as this, may need a permit first. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 21:12 | comment | added | jay613 | You have good answers -- Big machine or work platform. Youtube is full of videos that will convince you not to use ladders or grappling hooks (which could act as sling shots) to do this! This is my favorite: youtube.com/watch?v=Q0hFUfVbGz8 | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 20:49 | comment | added | DMoore | This seems like a perfect opportunity for sledgehammer jenga. Loser gets an ambulance! | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 19:59 | comment | added | Lee Sam | Your property looks like it could have a septic tank and drainfield. I’d check to make sure I knew the location of all utility lines, including sewer and water before you disturb the land or drop a ton of rocks on utility lines. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 18:59 | answer | added | DavidRecallsMonica | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 18:27 | answer | added | Alaska Man | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 18:22 | answer | added | r13 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 16:28 | comment | added | LeAnn | Matthew -- if you mean immediately on the other side of the wall from where this picture is taken, no, there isn't. it is a very uneven surface, covered with the debris from the old roof and 4th wall that have fallen in the past. However, above and across from the wall, there is a road. In the picture, the road runs along the other side of the wall you can see in front of the house in the upper left of the picture. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 16:05 | comment | added | Matthew | Is there a road and flat surface in front of this wall where a machine could park? | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 15:25 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | The lower edge of my roof is "only" 6 meters or so. Its a long way to the ground from up there, still. Brief use of large equipment by competent operators to knock this down (and then you can make the choice of cleaning it up from a safer location yourself, or exploiting the equipment more) would be a good deal safer than creative DIY "knock-it-over" schemes. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 15:16 | history | edited | LeAnn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 12, 2021 at 15:16 | comment | added | LeAnn | I'm sorry! I mistyped. It should be 10 meters. I'll edit to correct. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 15:13 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | 20m/60+ feet high? This sounds rather in the realm of hire competent (and insured) help. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | LeAnn | Thank you, FreeMan, for your response -- there's no legal problem here because we own all the land surrounding the house that isn't ours, and the connection between the house and the old wall is actually on our property and not technically legal. But we do want to be careful, of course, not to damage the other house. These issues get sticky in the French countryside because property is often bizarrely divided over the years . . . we know who the owners are (the house is abandoned), but it's difficult to get responses from them. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 14:34 | comment | added | FreeMan | I would suggest that the first step is to contact the owner of the other property to let him know what you're going to do. At some point, the wall crosses the line from your property to his, and I'd imagine that you have no legal right to tear down the wall on his property. You may need to hand disassemble the wall along the property line at a minimum, to ensure you don't have any impact on the "not yours" property, should the other owner not be amenable to a tear down (or not locateable). | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 14:31 | history | edited | FreeMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 12, 2021 at 14:21 | history | edited | LeAnn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 12, 2021 at 14:15 | history | asked | LeAnn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |