How To Cut Poured Concrete Wall

I dug the dirt outside the foundation wall 10 deeper than i would normally dig.

How to cut poured concrete wall.

Line up the blade of a concrete saw over the marks on one side of the wall. Start at the top of the opening and cut carefully along the lines you made on the wall. Measure from the edge of your concrete footing to the point where the outside face of your wall will be. Score the length of the cut three or four times with the chisel.

Drive a nail into the concrete here. Break the concrete wall into small chunks with your preferred tool and let the debris fall to the ground as you work. This process took approximately one hour to complete. A circular saw with a masonry blade can also be used to either score or completely cut through the block.

These joints should be cut in a quarter of the depth of the concrete slab during the very beginning of the curing process within 24 hours of the initial pour. Ignore any rebar you come across and just break the concrete free of the metal. Close up of cutting a door in a concrete foundation with a wet saw. The contractor was able to cut from the house sill framing to the concrete footing at the bottom.

Don t force a blade into a cut. Measure out from that nail to where the other face of your wall will be and place another nail. Once both sides ware cut he used a sledge hammer and some wedges to knock the wall out of position and into the pre dug hole awaiting outside.