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Cutting cap blocks - Trub Lou - 05-11-2020
I have a retaining wall that could use some finishing touches. I've specifically avoided putting caps on it because the wall itself has a changing curvature over about a 15-foot span, and so each cap would have to be custom cut. Short of renting a masonry saw, how big of a PITA is it to make straight cuts in 3-5 inch cap blocks?
Are the masonry blades for a circular saw worth anything? Is it easier just to score them and then hit with a chisel to split?
I'll post pics when it's all done, but this is really the last major bit of the back deck project, and after 2 years, I'm itching to get it finished off.
RE: Cutting cap blocks - Aspenleif - 05-11-2020
Use one of these on an angle grinder, and whack with a hammer.
https://www.amazon.com/Mortar-Diamond-Pointing-Grinder-Masonry/dp/B07DPT7TVX
RE: Cutting cap blocks - IamSancho - 05-12-2020
I used a masonry blade on the circular saw. For the paver brick work I plan on a combination of the circular saw again and a masonry blade on the angle grinder. Oh, and beer
RE: Cutting cap blocks - Stank Delicious - 05-12-2020
(05-12-2020, 03:45 PM)IamSancho Wrote: I used a masonry blade on the circular saw. For the paver brick work I plan on a combination of the circular saw again and a masonry blade on the angle grinder. Oh, and beer
Beer is an often overlooked tool for any job worth doing right.
RE: Cutting cap blocks - Trub Lou - 05-13-2020
Scoring about 3/16 deep and whacking with a BFH and chisel seemed to give me the split face effect I was after while keeping a straight line at the break. I just used the circ saw. As I was buying the masonry blade it did occur up me that the angle grinder probably would have accomplished the same thing. I never think if that out of the context of metal.
RE: Cutting cap blocks - Stank Delicious - 05-13-2020
(05-13-2020, 12:49 AM)Trub Lou Wrote: Scoring about 3/16 deep and whacking with a BFH and chisel seemed to give me the split face effect I was after while keeping a straight line at the break. I just used the circ saw. As I was buying the masonry blade it did occur up me that the angle grinder probably would have accomplished the same thing. I never think if that out of the context of metal.
You'd get a finer control with the angle grinder.
RE: Cutting cap blocks - Trub Lou - 05-13-2020
Probably. I was just going straight, though.
RE: Cutting cap blocks - Stank Delicious - 05-13-2020
Ah. Then circular saw away!