... the solid concrete roof would quietly float down to the ground, or something?
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Ffs, did he think the solid concrete roof would quietly float down to the ground, or something?
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A real optimist.
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You're not trained to think in the army.
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Thinking is the second thing that has to go, after the hair.
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T least he wasnt standing inside beating the wall outwards
So how would YOU have done it ?
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To be fair, the roof did just go straight downwards. What he didn't factor in is that the wall went outwards.
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Not in the officer class.
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Yep, he hadn't worked out his Dibnah Route for when "it's goin'" and maybe wasn't cautious enough once more than 1/4 of the roof slab was unsupported.
As has been asked "how would YOU have done it ?"
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It is conventional to remove something that is being supported by a wall before removing the wall holding it up.
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The problem I can see is that the roof is one big slab of concrete, supported by thin walls. If you try to break up the roof slab you may destabilise the walls and the whole thing would still come down. I would think that safely demolishing that garage without machinery is pretty difficult.
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Yes but the roof was re-inforced. That was not going to be easy to demolish in situ. I think he had the right idea but the wrong method. (Railway sleepers to hold it, knock out the wall, burn the sleepers or some such similar.
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The only safe way I can think of, short of using a big machine, is to nibble bits off the concrete slab, starting at the front edge and working backwards.
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I have seen this done by building a scaffolding framework inside the garage and taking the weight of the roof on Acrow props.
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acrow under the roof, demolish wall, tow rope round the acrow and builders van doing an F 1 start..
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No its not.
You prop the roof an remove the walls.
Then remove the props. From a distance.
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As I have said in my other reply, I have seen it done with a framework of scaffolding inside the garage and the weight of the roof taken on Acrow props.
it, knock out the wall, burn the sleepers or some such similar.
It was too close to other buildings for anything other than a careful removal piece by piece. Had it been well clear of anything else, then a chain around the base and a winch anchored well clear of the structure would have worked, although, from his track record, he might well have found the things that can go wrong doing that.
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I'd have got a man in...and set up a camera in case I had the chance to make some dosh from Youtube.
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DRILL A LINE OF HOLES IN STRATEGIC PLACES AND USE BLACK POWDER(oops cap lock)
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In sections, for the roof; for the wall, bang holes and put a wire hawser through them, and pull with a Landie, tractor, similar.