Demolish Concrete Pool Bottom
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How to Remove a Swimming Pool Wayzata MN
What happens here
Tools and materials
- Excavator (Dynamic Acorn SK-180LC)
- Large Boulder (approx. 4-foot)
- Skid Steer (Bobcat S185)
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What they say
(2,495 characters)yep right so we're back at the site Drew has successfully removed the con rete swimming pool one of the things I want to talk to you about is one of The Insider tricks that we use to remove a concrete swimming pool what you're going to see behind us come this way what you see behind us is the excavator the thumb and you see a big giant boulder right in the bottom of that swimming pool let's see if we can see that better you can see that Boulder down there monster so this is how we do this when Drew came into this site a lot of people would mistakenly think when you're going to demo a concrete swimming pool you're going to use a jackhammer and you're going to put that at the end of the skid loader and you're going to put that in the end of the the boom of the excavator and you [Music] go inefficient this is what you want to use you use this Boulder and what you literally do is you pick it up and you drop it and when you drop it you create an instant spiderweb effect and you do that on the very bottom of the swimming pool and that loosens it up and it allows you to rake the concrete out when you rake the concrete out you now have four freestanding walls you go into the center of the freestanding concrete wall you fold it down you pick the boulder up you drop it on that folded wall and it instantly spiderwebs that and releases the concrete from the rebar then you rake that concrete out you switch sides and you fold down the other side and you drop the boulder we're talking about being able able to demo a concrete swimming pool and a third or even a fourth of the time if you were using a jackhammer you can see how clean it leaves the concrete bottom we've still got everything that we've got to haul out in the background but the entire bottom of the pool was removed in what did it take you two days three days two three days at the most right rain yeah yeah CU we had rain but it doesn't make a difference he got the all the concrete out which for most companies is the most difficult part getting the concrete loose because I want you to think of this if you're going into demo any type of a a concrete structure that has rebar that's reinforced you're going to have a challenge we've used the Jackhammer we have a dedicated Jackhammer and we didn't bring it out on this job site because of this setup it may look a little archaic but it's efficient efficiency is the way you need to go especially when I want you I want you to look at the house in the background too…
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