Ffs, did he think the solid concrete roof would quietly float down to the ground, or something?

[Brian Gaff]

Perhaps he though he was in outer space.

Brian

[Dave Liquorice]

So how would YOU have done it ?

[Dave Liquorice]

And then?

[Owain]

Perhaps he'll be prosecuted for not wearing a hard hat and hi vis vest

Owain

[Nightjar]

Man with Kango hammer stood on the roof and cut it back, piece by piece.

Colin Bignell

[Nightjar]

I would have got in somebody who knew what they were doing.

Colin Bignell

[whisky-dave]

And don;t forget to allows ads, so you get a chance to make money from someone else's suffering, there's more to life than funny accidents :-)

[tony sayer]

Look how Fred Dibnah managed with that method hundreds of feet high chimneys and hardly did it ever go wrong;!...

[Clive George]

something?

But I can see why one might not want to do that in this case.

One option is prop the roof, remove the wall, lower the roof.

[dennis]

build a thermic lance and cut the slab down the middle.

[Tim+]

Is for once, the "best" answer yet. ;-). Next question though, do you stand on or under the roof whilst cutting it?

Tim

[tim......]

It doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to expect the roof to fall into the void, leaving the side wall still standing

tim

[tim......]

If you have the kit to do that it would be easier to remove the wall - from a distance

tim

[Dave Liquorice]

A stiff breeze will knock over an 8' high single brick width wall...

[dennis]

I have the kit to do it remotely somewhere.. It would be possible to use a sacrificial angle grinder on a wooden trolley to cut through the centre of the slab. You don't even need string if you pull on the cable. The grinder might even survive. Make sure to post a video if you try. 8-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

it does if you realise the roof is reinforced, and it can't fall as a block because the wall that you have half removed, is in the way..

Clearly for the roof to fall, the wall has to be somewhere else.

So its rather silly to stand in the only place it can go.

[Tim+]

The fact that the roof came down in two halves would suggest a sectional construction to me, maybe slats. It it is, then I would have thought these could be removed one at a time.

Tim

[Bob Eager]

BTW, he was on BBC Breakfast today. They saved his leg. He is walking OK but not doing building jobs. He says his credibility is shot anyway!

[Dave Liquorice]

But doing nicely from the appearance and newspaper fees...

[Onetap]

Aye, he nearly got away with that, it seems the plan unravelled as the roof was coming down on the RHS and exerted a small sideways force on the wall, in his direction. Enough to topple the unsupported 8' wall onto him.

I don't think the roof was concrete, i can't imagine anyone putting concrete across two 1/2 brick walls. I thought it was timber joists and came down in one piece.

The only way to do that would be dismantle the roof (whatever it is) and demolish the walls in short segments, proceeding backwards.

He'd probably put in an offer that undercut the builders with more brains.