Disassembling a small house
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BoylermanCT
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I want to see pics of the new house and view!
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quicksandfarmer
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Don't really have pictures. Imagine a one-bedroom bungalow built around 1927, probably from a Sears-like kit. Over the years it was added onto at least five times -- sideways, second floor, then sideways again, then dormers, then back and then back again -- until it was a four-bedroom house with attached garage and a covered porch and an apartment in the basement. Each addition was lower quality than the one before. The house had nine different roof planes, not counting the dormers. Fortunately none of the roofs were steep and the eaves all around were at first floor height so it was easy to get up on the roof and walk around on it.
PILOON
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In our area, free 4 residential for most trash, small fee 4 construction but no commercial accepted.
Example is a 4 x 8 ft trailer would be $25.00
While they take white goods, all freon must be removed.
The big push is to have appliance stores swap out your old appliance.
Will not take mounted tires but OK for rims and old rubber. (hence many mounted tires dumped roadside)
Example is a 4 x 8 ft trailer would be $25.00
While they take white goods, all freon must be removed.
The big push is to have appliance stores swap out your old appliance.
Will not take mounted tires but OK for rims and old rubber. (hence many mounted tires dumped roadside)
Robert_Actual
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This sounds epic and I love projects like this!
A few years back I built a ski-in-ski-out cabin (4,500 sqft) for a customer and had to remove an old 1,000 sqft cabin that had been built over the property line of the National Forrest. Had to stay out of the root zone with equipment so I rented a small crane that sat out of the area and we cut the house apart in 10 x 10 sections with chain saws. I hired the rigger and operator from the crane company and myself and a few other guys cut. Had several flatbed trucks/trailers lined up to take the piles. The crane weighed the pieces as they flew over and when the vehicle was full I had 2-3 guys helping with strapping and tarping the load. We had 2 trucks (one left and one right) so we were always loading while the other was strapping down or backing in. I think it cost about 35k and it was gone in a day - even took out the concrete pilings and backfilled them from a bucket filled with approved soil.
A few years back I built a ski-in-ski-out cabin (4,500 sqft) for a customer and had to remove an old 1,000 sqft cabin that had been built over the property line of the National Forrest. Had to stay out of the root zone with equipment so I rented a small crane that sat out of the area and we cut the house apart in 10 x 10 sections with chain saws. I hired the rigger and operator from the crane company and myself and a few other guys cut. Had several flatbed trucks/trailers lined up to take the piles. The crane weighed the pieces as they flew over and when the vehicle was full I had 2-3 guys helping with strapping and tarping the load. We had 2 trucks (one left and one right) so we were always loading while the other was strapping down or backing in. I think it cost about 35k and it was gone in a day - even took out the concrete pilings and backfilled them from a bucket filled with approved soil.
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BoylermanCT
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Would love to see a video of that demo! Approved soil. Didn't know there was such a thing! Gotta love government.