Sunday, August 5, 2007

Chip Away at the Stone


Rented a rotary hammer for $40 per day-they are over $500 bucks new- and got to work on the side where we nearly had the blow out with the concrete. Every day you learn something new and I suppose that's a lot of the upside of doing it yourself.
Today's lesson: Today I learned that a 7" diamond blade for scoring and cutting the concrete with the circular saw is close to fifty bucks and creates a ton of dust. Made four passes, each 1/2 inch, 35 feet along the east side of the slab where the forms bowed out. Unfortunately the rental place did not provide a wider chisel to finish the edges but I'll be covering them with 3" foam anyway.

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