Garden wall removal

[fatjames]

Can anyone offer me some advice on knocking down a brick wall?

It 2 bricks thick x 3 foot high x 6 foot long. (approx)

I have access to power so was considering hiring a rotary SDS hammer drill chisel thing and just removing a brick at a time until it's gone.

I'm not much of a meat head, but would it be easier to whack it with a sledge hammer? Or lump hammer and chisel?

Sounds easy enough, but that's not usually an accurate way to assess tasks!

I'd also like to leave a smooth surface that I can drive on. I'm guessing I could fill in any gaps with some cement (also not something I've done before)

[Ste]

Smack it with a sledge hammer and see what happens.

If that doesn't work then damage the wall using a chisel and lump hammer before smacking it again with the sledge hammer.

You might get a smooth surface at the bottom or that part might require further work using the chisel and lump hammer.

If I had a hammer, I'd hammer everyday etc etc etc

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[stinkwheel]

Might just push over. You never know 'till you try.
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[chris-red]

Were it me, I'd send a text out to my mates...

"Anyone wanna smash up a wall Saturday afternoon? BYO Hammers, Beers on me."

I reckon 2-4 would be free and We'd have a proper laugh drinking beer and causing destruction.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

A feck off gert hammer will do the job but an sds with a chisel bit and rotary action turned off* will be much easier.

*the idea of it spinning the chisel seems like a good idea until the first time it digs in and jams, ripping the fucker out of your fingers and twatting you in the side of the head in the process...
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[Beehive Bedlam]

You don't need to be a 'meat head' you've got to be seriously thick or a pen pushing faggot if you don't know how to knock a wall down.

Try using your head.

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[fatjames]

Nice one BCF

Given the choice of buying a sledge hammer or borrowing / renting a smashing tool.. SDS sounds like the way to go.

[Ste]

You need a sledge hammer so go and buy yourself one.

It's much more fun than using a rented SDS chisel drill thingy.

[Beehive Bedlam]

You don't need to hire an idiot stick a 14lb sledge hammer would be sufficient.

[Beehive Bedlam]

Even a lump hammer will do it if you hit it in the right places. Surely you've got a lump hammer?

[MCN]

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[recman]

He couldn't swing a toffee hammer.

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[Skudd]

Hammer and chisel would do it, will brake it up into manageable bits. Should take long. Don't forget to wear gloves.
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[Beehive Bedlam]

You will want a dozen rubble bags a brush and shovel aswell as the sledge hammer OP.

I used to lay bricks for a living when in the 60s when I was fucking polarbears Mum dirty bitch she was.

[grr666]

Going bananas on it with a hammer is fine if you want high speed clay and mortar shrapnel flying around randomly at
window breaking velocity, It's also a great way to make tidying up afterward take twice as long as your debris field
will be pretty big. Get a 1inch cold chisel, bang it into the mortar lines dead centre of each brick and they will come away one at a
time,usually whole. A 20oz hammer will be plenty using this method. It's only a little wall. Deconstruct it a brick at a time,
working your way along each row. By the time you reach the bottom you'll be an expert chiseller and able to do the last
couple of rows below the surface.

One of these will do. If you don't have any, then buy or borrow some knee pads and some sort of eye protection.
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