Is there a quiet way to break up a concrete slab?

Because the new builders next door are using a JCB with a big pneumatic drill and it’s doing my head in.

Alternatively, what hoses do I need to cut to stop the thing working?

Just pop on over & casually ask if they know a high power mains cable lies underneath.

You’ve only got tool jealousy.

Would it cheer you up to know that that hydraulic breaker is called a pecker?

Go next door and tell him that you can’t concentrate on account of being distracted by his enormous pecker. 😯

Tool jealousy indeed.

😀

Very Freudian.

Two days of this so far:

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Fair bit of efflorescence on the brickwork. Road lining needs redone. Empty Chips and cheese container. Flagrant violation of the No Parking sign 3/10 😉

Digging up a a concrete slab in Maryhill?
There may be more than cables under there… 😯

Yes, the mess is all theirs too – lots of bits of polystyrene insulation blowing about.

I’ve got no space inside the shop for that thing at the moment 😉

Theres a quiet way to do it using a Lilac Bush and a box of matches[/url]

For a ground slab, not really. Could saw cut and remove in sections but still noisy.

For raised slabs we let the dinosaurs feed 😀

I’m in the wrong job 😀

Anyway, its raining so they’ve stopped.

#badlyparkedbikes

Because the new builders next door are using a JCB with a big pneumatic drill and it’s doing my head in.

short term noise thats LOUD
or
LONG term noise that’s a little quieter…cos it’s gonna be loud no matter what!

get it over and done with 🙂

Two days of this so far:

Bad news.

You’ve got 66 weeks of this ahead of you when they start overcladding Cedar Court after Christmas. 😕

Just be thankful your not further down the road at the old Sunday Post place that is currently being demolished, noise and dust aplenty!

Only quiet way I can think of is to leave them in the rain and wait for erosion to happen.

I’m not saying it’s a quick way, just quiet.

Are they demolishing that whole thing? I tried to get in there just after it closed, but it was incredibly tight for security.

Prisoners used to dig through walls with their spoons, I saw it in a documentary – there was a sewage pipe involved too I think.

Prisoners used to dig through walls with their spoons, I saw it in a documentary – there was a sewage pipe involved too I think.

Pollokshawshank Redemption?

It’s friday, it’s POETS day, they’ll be off home in a minute.

Pollokshawshank Redemption?

<applauds>

Your thread title may have only been a rhetorical question, Ben, but the answer is, yes:

http://demolitiontechnologies.com/

In answer to OP. Yes, but it’s not as much fun. It’s only a baby one too.

Freeze/thaw erosion’ll do it. Well, it’ll make a little noise but spread out over a thousand years or so, so you’ll probably not notice

They managed it in Hatton Garden over Easter, and nobody heard a thing

thermic lance- melt right through it