Roughly two-thirds of the backyard of our new house is covered with concrete slab and so I thought I would go our there and break it up with a sledgehammer in advance of putting in a new garden. <\/p>\n
The first row of slab I picked happened to be concrete simply set on a layer of old bricks and it took about an hour to bust up roughly 3×10 feet worth. When I moved over to the adjacent row and started whacking it, however, I discovered that it (and, it seems, the entirety of the rest of the slab) is newer, reinforced concrete, with a layer of small gauge (1\/8th inch?) wire rebar running through it.<\/p>\n
I’d like to keep working on this myself, and so would love any advice people might have about possible DIY approaches to breaking the rest of this up. Will a jackhammer break up the concrete and bust the wire? (Home Depot, for example, rents a 28ft lbs\/strike jhammer, as does Miller Tools on CI Ave). Or do I need some sort of concrete saw? Or should I just cut to the chase and call a workman to do this?<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roughly two-thirds of the backyard of our new house is covered with concrete slab and so I thought I would go our there and break it up with a sledgehammer in advance of putting in a new garden. The first row of slab I picked happened to be concrete simply set on a layer of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demolition"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/03\/advice-on-break\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Advice on breaking up reinforced concrete slab","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/03\/advice-on-break\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/03\/advice-on-break\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Demolition","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"anon"}],"creator":["anon"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2007-03-22T06:35:57Z","datePublished":"2007-03-22T06:35:57Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:26Z"},"rendered":"