I Did Sleep at a Holiday Inn Express Once<\/i><\/p>\n
As the proud owner of a rotary hammer that has not been delivered yet, I have an observation.<\/p>\n
There is a hole at the foot of a wall, outside. It’s a three-foot-high wall. During heavy rain, water used to accumulate behind it. Long ago, I instructed a contractor to put the hole in, with a PVC pipe, to let the water out.<\/p>\n
They rented a demo hammer with a chisel bit, and they busted a big nasty hole. It took them a long time. They quit before it was done. I had to go behind them with a hammer and chisel and open it up. I crammed a pipe in there and sealed it in place with foam. It looks pretty bad.<\/p>\n
After I ordered the rotary hammer, a reader of this blog said I had to get a coring bit. This is pretty much the same thing as a hole saw, except it makes holes in concrete. You can make holes over 3″ wide with the hammer I ordered. Pretty, smooth holes. And if you hit rebar? No problem. The bits are made to cut it. It has occurred to me that this is what the contractor should have used.<\/p>\n
Question: how many years do you have to work in construction before you realize a coring bit and a rotary hammer are what you need to make holes in concrete walls? Am I imagining things, or is this yet another example of Miami-contractor incompetence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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