Diamond cruncher used to demolish concrete stairs

Diamond Hire and Sales has recently hired a concrete hand cruncher to Bramley Developments for works at a Leeds shopping centre,

The building company used the specialist piece of equipment to deconstruct two flights of concrete stairs located within a disused shop at the Crossgate Shopping Centre, Leeds.

The two stair cases were 1,200mm wide and ran from the ground floor to the first floor and first floor to the second.

The concrete structure was free-standing and inaccessible without the use of scaffolding.

Due to the close proximity of members of the public and adjacent retail businesses, the controlled deconstruction of the staircases had to be undertaken using a quiet, vibration-free technique.

Les Helliwell, director of Bramley Developments said: "The hand cruncher was used to good effect by two building operatives positioned on a scaffold platform who worked from the bottom of the staircases upwards".

"The machine nibbled away at the edge of each staircase in a controlled and measured fashion".

"It proved ideal as it quickly ate its way through the staircases without producing any undue noise, vibration or excessive dust".

"Costs were kept down as the entire undertaking was performed by my own employees negating the extra expense of specialist demolition personnel whilst at the same time enabling us to complete the building program expeditiously".

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