GrainBinMan
Well-Known Member
How would you go about taking this roof off and saving the steel structure? The concrete block walls will be taken down, but the building owner would like to save the I-beams, joists and columns.
I'm not 100% sure how it was originally installed. But there is a joist every 5'. Every 33" along the joist there is an upside down T. It appears they put some sort of drywall type material in those rectangles, then poured 2" of concrete on top of that, with wire in it. On top of that, there is tarpaper with stones.
We started on one corner to see how it would go. We took a concrete saw and cut all the 33" x 60" sections, then knocked them out with a sledge. Wasn't terribly hard work, but will take a while to do the whole roof. Is there some mechanical way to do it?
I'm not 100% sure how it was originally installed. But there is a joist every 5'. Every 33" along the joist there is an upside down T. It appears they put some sort of drywall type material in those rectangles, then poured 2" of concrete on top of that, with wire in it. On top of that, there is tarpaper with stones.
We started on one corner to see how it would go. We took a concrete saw and cut all the 33" x 60" sections, then knocked them out with a sledge. Wasn't terribly hard work, but will take a while to do the whole roof. Is there some mechanical way to do it?