We’ve got a situation at the new house we’re building- the basement is full of snow and ice.It needs to be cleaned up so we can pour the floor and the framers can start framing.
We started out by shoveling everything we could on top of the rebar, and then wheelbarrowing it to the edge and dumping it over; but there was no good way to shovel underneath the rebar, and this was more ice than snow.
I didn’t want to use salt because I didn’t want to hurt the concrete, so I thought I would try a torch.
This ended up being a complete waste of time; it took forever just to melt a tiny section, but I did manage to accidently melt off one of my shoelaces.
So I called up my friend, the guy who’s going to pour the slab, and asked him if he had any ideas on how to get the ice out.
He said the best thing to do is to break up all the ice with a shovel or a sledgehammer, and then blow it out with a backpack leaf blower.
He let me borrow his new Husqvarna leaf blower- this thing is an absolute beast. It puts out a thousand cfm.
And just when I was getting tired my new neighbor came over with his leaf blower to help out.
This was a huge morale booster and made the job go twice as fast.
Some of the larger pieces of ice kept getting stuck in the rebar chairs so we had to pick them out by hand.
By then end of day 2 we had it pretty much cleaned out.
We’re hoping for at least one day warm enough to pour next week.
Let us know in the comments what’s your craziest winter construction story? @hausplans
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