K Crumley Construction Demolition & Concrete Crushing LONDON / SURREY / WEST SUSSEX
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Demolition & Concrete Crushing
When demolishing, redeveloping or renovating a site, disposing of used construction materials is a key phase that’s often overlooked. After the demolition team has finished toppling concrete structures, excavating foundations and digging up floors, all that material has to go somewhere.
Concrete is tough by nature; a heavy, robust material that we’ve used to build the human-made world around us. It’s laborious and time consuming to break in huge quantities, and even more difficult to transport and dispose of when it’s whole.
That’s where concrete crushing comes in. A concrete crusher makes the removal, disposal and recycling of concrete so much safer, efficient and more manageable.
Using a concrete crusher
Concrete crushers are extremely powerful machines but the crushing process itself is simple. Crushers work on basic mechanical principles: leverage, impact, grinding and rolling being some of the techniques employed to break materials apart.
Most crushers can be fed with large slabs and chunks of concrete, up to the size of the crusher’s opening. Crushers can even extract rebar and mesh, separating the concrete from the metal with little effort.
The crusher then produces aggregates and sands as output. The small pieces are far easier to store and transport than large sections of concrete. They’re also excellent aggregates to build with again – giving waste materials a new lease of life, cutting down construction costs and reducing environmental impact.
Recycling Crushed Concrete
From ballast to ballrooms, crushed concrete is full of potential.
Recycled concrete has a wealth of applications. As building material, the aggregates produced by a concrete crusher can be used to form new foundations, or even be mixed with sand and cement to form new, recycled concrete.
Recycling crushed concrete is important – even if it doesn't seem glamorous. It reduces waste significantly. Most of the impact is invisible. But over time, transportation costs, fuel usage and use of raw materials takes its toll. With construction an ongoing process around the world, these little elements all add up to big challenges.
Recycling is our society’s best way of reducing waste – and concrete is no different to cans, plastics and paper. It can (and should) be used again.
We operate across the following areas:
SUSSEX
Horsham
Worthing
Brighton
Chichester
Haywards Heath
Billingshurst
Burgess Hil
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SURREY
Dorking
Reigate
Guildford
Gatwick
Haslemere
Godalming
Esher
Cobham
Weybridge
LONDON
Putney
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Chelsea
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