Rent the largest handheld concrete cutting saw you can find and a rotohammer with a few 3 8 or 1 2 diameter bits and a wide spade chiseling bit.
Cutting concrete foundation for door cost.
You can cut through a home s foundation to add a door using a concrete saw.
However the outdoor costs with a depth of 16 inches will cost about 5 per linear foot while the indoor price is.
I m remodeling our basement.
There are many different kinds of concrete cutting but the most common are wall sawing core drilling and slab or flat sawing.
A top plate a bottom plate and one stud for each joist should do.
I wanted to make a partial cut out of a short stem wall recently and the engineer hemmed and hawed about it a bit.
Normally done with welded or bolted structural steel outer frame for the door to reinforce the opening you are making then normal door put inside that outer frame and commonly adding reinforcing and or grout filling of the block voids on the blocks surrounding the door opening.
The larger the blade is the deeper it will cut.
Either way they are listed in your local or online yellow pages under the heading of concrete breaking cutting sawing core drilling etc a professional concrete cutter will make the process look exceptionally easy and help make short work of your basement remodeling project.
Wall sawing is the process of cutting openings such as doors or windows in concrete walls usually no more than 12 thick but in some cases up to 24 thick.
This doorway opened up the old basement to the new addition.
Red line is future door.
In this case you may need to cut into the foundation or concrete wall and dig a window well.
One of the things we would like to do is move the door about 8ft from it s current spot so as to achieve a bathroom layout that makes sense.
Cutting through a block wall but not the concrete footer would.
Build a temporary wall inside the basement to support the joists that land on the section of foundation you re going to pulverize.
In doing this it looks like i would need to cut a 34 long x 12 high x 8 thick chunk of concrete out of my current foundation.
Both dry and wet cut concrete saws are available.
Cutting a full door out could have a lot of affects depending on what that foundation wall is doing.
The cost to dig a full basement verse a crawl space was minimal as was the cost of the additional concrete to pour the walls.
The cost to excavate land for the window well ranges from 50 to 200 per cubic yard.
Concrete saws are hand held gas powered tools that feature between 12 and 18 inch blades depending on the model.
I forget now but maybe it was 800 more to dig and pour a full basement and it cost 450 for cutting a door in a concrete foundation.
The outdoor cost 1 to 1 5 inches in depth can be about 0 60 per linear foot while indoor cutting costs can around 1 50 per linear foot.
The charges for saw cutting concrete are usually dependent on the depth per linear foot.
Definitely check with an engineer.
