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Creating ope for window through mass concrete wall

  • 21-09-2013 10:08pm
    #1
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭


    Part of our house is a mass concrete wall which is 2 ft thick. We had initially thought the wall was cut stone and that putting a window in the wall would create issues with the stone work and cost a lot of money. We then found out it was mass concrete. is it still as expensive to cut through the concrete? Has anyone ever cut through mass concrete for this reason? Would there support lintels involved, or is there enough support in the concrete already?

    Any advice appreciated.


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  • #2
    650gs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭650gs


    Depends on whats above it, apart from that its not a big job just a little time with a kango and consaw really not a big or expensive job PM me if you need more info


  • #3
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    paddylonglegs wrote: »
    Part of our house is a mass concrete wall which is 2 ft thick. We had initially thought the wall was cut stone and that putting a window in the wall would create issues with the stone work and cost a lot of money. We then found out it was mass concrete. is it still as expensive to cut through the concrete? Has anyone ever cut through mass concrete for this reason? Would there support lintels involved, or is there enough support in the concrete already?

    Any advice appreciated.

    Are you living in a nuclear bunker?


  • #4
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    michael999999 wrote: »
    Are you living in a nuclear bunker?

    Ha ha ha, seems they were preparing for it alright!

    The other part of the house is cut stone with thick walls so maybe they were keeping it uniform, not sure.


  • #5
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    650gs wrote: »
    Depends on whats above it, apart from that its not a big job just a little time with a kango and consaw really not a big or expensive job PM me if you need more info

    It's a 2 storey. Bathroom above the area


  • #6
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    paddylonglegs wrote: »
    Ha ha ha, seems they were preparing for it alright!

    The other part of the house is cut stone with thick walls so maybe they were keeping it uniform, not sure.

    My grandfathers house is the same. He was a carpenter, so he shuttered the whole house. There isn't one block in it. They were built to last when they built them back then.


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