Demolishing a Perfectly Good House

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Sadly, this house has to go. More Excavation here: • Foundation Excavation ...
Heavy equipment makes the task quick and easy and actually fun!
Here are final costs:
A total of ten 20 yard dumpsters.
Total Dump fees were $3263.00 (includes cost of transport to the dump plus landfill costs)
Machines and labor: $2300.00
Total house demolition: $5563.00
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@jackgibson9125 2 года назад

Here in the Chicagoland area, prior to a demolition, there are reclamation companies that strip a house of all usable and recyclable materials for reuse or recycling. Copper, aluminum, bricks, certain lumber pieces, etc….. they even repurpose plantings, etc… a much better option than sending it all to the landfill…but I’m sure it’s not available everywhere

@jcoul1sc 2 года назад

Same here in UK

@51-FS 2 года назад

Here They load it all up in a truck then it goes to a recycling center. Every thing gets recycled

@clarhettcoalfield3616 2 года назад

In Toronto same thing, you need to do an environmental assessment, before demolition can begin. The house is stripped of any toxic parts first, then the reclamation company will come to strip the house of all recyclable materials, eves, glass, copper, bricks, stone etc. Even the wood - 2x4's, sheathing, and plywood is salvaged. Some contractors here even go as far as removing all the nails and screws to send them off for recycling, heck even the drywall and sheet rock is sent off to get recycled. And whats left usually can be disposed of in two 25 yard bins.

@wittywoo9559 2 года назад

Yea theres a lot of waste In the world I still take timber from skips to cut, dry & burn in stove

@jcoul1sc 2 года назад

@Jeff Johnson it will change as the prices increase

@anthonymiller8979 2 года назад

Always sad to see a house torn down and no trace left. This was once someone's dream and a families' whole life and world. The home my dad built was eventually torn down to make room for a park. I think about him crafting the plans and he and my mom working every day after their 'real" jobs building that house. My whole childhood was spent there and a sad day for my dad when the county bought his home and later demolished it.

@kellycherpin1394 2 года назад

As a carpenter I know what you mean and how you feel. It’s kind of sad to watch.

@sanfranciscobay 2 года назад

1948. My Parents bought a simple 3 bedroom, single bathroom, detached single car garage. 4 Children in 5 years 1950-55. We were all raised in the house. Parents died, house was sold. It's still there but the memories vanish when the new owners move in.

@jeffpower6473 2 года назад

I’m a finish Carpenter by trade and I’m in the middle of building my own families dream house, on 11 beautiful acres. However I know that even though I’m absolutely pouring every bit of my heart and soul into our home, eventually one day it’ll be gone. It will not last forever, but for me it will full fill its purpose in that, Lord willing my wife and I will have many happy years raising our children there .

@jamesrecknor6752 Год назад

@Phillip Banes TRUE

@heathergasol569 5 месяцев назад

I’m in the process of getting ready to hire someone to tear down my mom’s house. Mom passed away last month. She lived there her entire life… 84 years. It was her home place. It was my home place. This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. My husband and I live next door. We decided instead of selling the house and watching other people live there we would tear it down. The house is 100 years old. It is very nice but the neighborhood has deteriorated around us. I would hate to get bad neighbors. It would make me sick. Tearing it down is going to break me in pieces but I hope my mom & family in heaven understands.🙏🩷🩷🩷🥲🥲🥲

@horatiohornblower868 2 года назад

Landfills are a thing of the past. Where I live this mainly wooden house would go to the nearest incinerator and end up as electricity. It’s a real waste to just dump it in nature. Kudos to the demolition team though. These guys know their job.

@RubenKemp 2 года назад

@@rea8755 separating as much as possible then burning the non-recycleable 'waste' to create electricity is still widely done

@michaelweilmuenster5754 Год назад

I know from a time standpoint it's hard to have someone come in and salvage the lumber, but it kills me to see all that go to waste!

@erich9779 Год назад

If you hate to see it go to waste. Do something about it you useless citizen who always complain and never take action to change anything

@lumberjackdreamer6267 Год назад

Yes. Such a waste. Problem is the American culture of immediacy. People can’t wait. It’s an ADHD culture.

@cameronfaircloth8065 2 года назад

Nice to see I wasn’t the only one concerned about the loss of all that usable material…I understand the cost/benefit but damn…still seems a shame

@seanm3226 2 года назад

Yes, the cost/benefit.

@dethmaul 2 года назад

Yeah it's wasteful. At least have an open house lol. Free materials, rip out whatever you want. No reserve. Life's too litigious for that nowadays. An environmental shame.

@BrianSmith-lo3mj Год назад

@@dethmaul Absolutely, that was very wasteful ... We had an old house that was built in the late 1800s that our neighbor had bulldozed down but 7 or 8 weeks before the demo he let a bunch of people go in there and get what ever they needed or wanted.

@rerolley 2 года назад

Beau Miles had a great video a few months ago about saving wood from the landfill when a house needed to be demolished. Probably not feasible in this case, but it would be great if it could happen more often.

@joestebbing9489 2 года назад

That bloke is an absolute hero

@manubell 2 года назад

It's one thing that i dont understand about wooden houses in US. They are made like LEGO, and can easily be dismantled and reused (most parts if not 100%), instead they end up in the landfill. I understand it is matter of time and willingness, but should me done more often, specially in those harsh times with all building costs rising. I guess it takes a really harsh depression for a generation to appreciate reusing materials.

@deejaymalta 2 года назад

I was gonna say this, glad I'm not the only one that thought of 'ole Beauie.

@revelenslightalters 2 года назад

Weekend before last we tore apart an old garage. This weekend it was re-framed it into a perfectly serviceable little one-room cabin and porch. Barely anything had to get chucked, just some small scraps of lumber and sheathing.... Easier to do with a 12x16 one story building, obviously, but it's still always sad to see the material getting tossed in the landfill.

@bnasty267 Год назад

@@manubell To a large degree, that is the beauty of stick-framed houses. All the wood is (obviously) biodegradable, and it quickly breaks down in the landfill. Trees to grow new lumber are constantly planted, and young trees do a better job of pulling CO2 from the atmosphere. It really isn't worth trying to collect, de-nail, and inspect each and every board to reuse. I'm sure the code office would have issues with the structural integrity and proper ratings on old lumber, so it would be questionable where it could even be used.

@RubyRhod 2 года назад

Oh wow, what a difference to germany! Here we would seperate wood from stone and bricks, extract copper (we have copper pipes in our heating systems! also electrical), iron (we often span great openings in our stone walls with H-Beams [in my house there are like 5 6 or so inch by several foot long beams] and so on. wood gets burned for electricity (it's about.. roughly.. $50 per ton) stones and bricks get crushed and reused for foundations and substructure of streets and pavings and so on (again something like 50$ per ton) the rest is regular waste just like you decribed, Nate, but more expensive. I'd say about 150$ per ton. This stuff gets burned, too, because landfills are forbidden at least here in germany.

@craiglangford7171 2 года назад

Just heartbreaking what insane rules some folks love to enforce.

@chrisstewart7830 2 года назад

It's insane that planning wouldn't want more houses available. More states need to abolish archaic SFH zoning laws.

@StallionFernando Год назад

Drives up the prices of lots and the state can charge 10x more what a lot is worth, they sell them to the banks then the banks sell them to you. Back in the 50's you could have your home payed off in a a year, imagine that...

@CustomWeldingandFab Год назад

Yep govt bureaucracy, people need to quit demanding the govt to solve their problems and be involved enough to stop stupid rules they try to pass. It’s your liberty, own it!

@lumberjackdreamer6267 Год назад

@@CustomWeldingandFab Without the government you’d be a sick beggar, so please stop whining. Grow a pair and learn about the value of civilization.

@pcno2832 2 месяца назад

A couple of towns away from me, there was a fire in a medium-rise condo. The city didn't want to let them rebuild it because the zoning of that area had changed. The owners were left owing mortgages on apartments that didn't exist. Eventually, they threatened to sue and the city relented, but it still cost them a fortune. I don't know how these officials slept at night.

@Nick_fb 2 года назад

Knowing now how much work goes into a house (thanks to this channel) it was a little sad seeing it go!

@bmay8818 2 года назад

This makes me feel even better about disassembling, rather than demolishing, the barn I took down to build my new shop. I saved a bunch of lumber and some roofing, and recycled the roofing and lumber I didn't save. It took me a summer to do it but that was with just me working on it. I totally understand that doing that here would be expensive, but that's only because we pay so little for landfill disposal. It's $88 a TON where I am (an hour from EC) to bring garbage to the dump. Every time I go, I think "I bet it's ten times that in Austria". As it should be. It shouldn't be cheap to put stuff in landfills.

@dosadoodle 2 года назад

You mentioned at 3:56 that you'd mention what the total weight of the home was at the end of the video, but I didn't catch it (not sure if I missed it?). If you're still up for sharing, I'd be curious!

@Peter-gi3re 2 года назад

It’s in the description when you click at the video title……. He say approx $5,000 I am guessing that is the dump charge and doesn’t include the demo guys equipment and trucking. I also doubt if it included the concrete and asphalt disposal. $5,000 wouldn’t get you too far here in NY 😂

@dosadoodle 2 года назад

@@Peter-gi3re Thanks Peter! I should have known to look there. :)

@tlheingrunst 2 года назад

Would have been interesting to find out if it could have been turned into shop space and no longer a living space. I'd leave the front step and fireplace there as a constant reminder of the house being there once. And a reminder to the city as well.

@flemmingaaberg4457 2 года назад

That was my thought too - surely it could have been turned into shed space. It sounds like leaving it there was a desire - didn't have to be a house though - workshop/shed/barn. So now if there is a new house on the property and you wanted to build a shed where the house was would that be allowed?

@dethmaul 2 года назад

Report that fucking scammer. WATCH OUT for prize scammers on youtube! Do NOT contact them.

@msnpassjan2004 2 года назад

So what was the final weight of the house ?

@essentialcraftsman 2 года назад

Don't know yet - will update in the notes as soon as we know

@dethmaul 2 года назад

@@essentialcraftsman I'm deathly curious too! Can't wait to see!

@pjmtts 2 года назад

It’s surprising they didn’t want you to divide into separate parcels instead of demolition.

@StubProductions 2 года назад

No it’s not. It’s mostly part of a development or subdivide that states there’s only one house per lot. This is not unusual at all. Many places limit one house to 5 acres.

@rodneyholland1867 2 года назад

@@StubProductions Just shows you the stupidity of many planning regulations

@andydsimmons 2 года назад

More disappointing I would say. people need homes and they could simply allow it or make exception. Instead they force him to destroy an asset that can help both parties. Good video though 👌

@omnomzofchainsaws4278 2 года назад

Out where I live it's one house per parcel/lot, and if you subdivide it's a minimum of 500' between primary residences.

@hibiki54 2 года назад

Cities do this on purpose. It's to prevent track home builders from buying single home large acre properties and putting up 30+ home gated communities.

@BlackheartCharlie 2 года назад

Here in Key West we have "investors" from the Mainland tearing down million-dollar houses and building bigger/fancy spec houses. Only 90 miles away in Cuba they would have disassembled this house and repurposed all of the lumber, wiring, hardware, etc. I've been over there and seen folks pulling nails out of old salvage and hammering them straight on an old piece of railroad track for an anvil. Nothing goes to waste there. Capt. Blackheart Charlie Cayo Hueso

@Norm475 2 года назад

I am 80 and when I was young my family did the same thing.

@adamschaeffer4057 2 года назад

Even as an American born in the 1970's and lived through prosperity my entire life I see no reason NOT to do this. Money is good. More money is better. Whatever you can do to conserve wealth is going to be helpful in the long run.

@badlandskid 2 года назад

@@adamschaeffer4057 it’s called stewardship and we have lost that principle because prosperity can make us complacent.

@gmendes1831 2 года назад

Dude was exactly this criticism I was going to make. Here in Brazil, in Guarulhos, I take the nails from the woods I use and keep in a can, in last use I will give it to some guy who recycles it. I must have about 10kg saved up. I can buy new nails, but I consider disposal without due care, superb and wasteful. The U.S., which has a lot of money, is linked to mercenaries. Real Americans (like the EngelsCoachShop I follow on RU-vid) are independent and would never do such a stupid thing. Even because there are many people in poverty there and someone haughty would offer these materials for use by the needy. Someone will argue about time, which is an important currency. I, from the experience of 52 years of life, know that criminals are always in a hurry. Stupid scene like this one sees on Miami boats with 5 500hp outboard motors. It's as stupid as driving a truck to a bakery to buy 5 loaves of bread. Nature never forgives waste. In 1000 years you will remember an irresponsible people who sponsored atrocious scenes like those of this video, which I have already saved as a reference and will publish on VK, a space where the censorship of the 5 eyes still does not reach.

@gmendes1831 2 года назад

What about liking it? I liked it, because even bad example serves to educate.

@mattsanguinetti812 2 года назад

Really neat video. I can't help but feel a pang of sadness though. Tradesman put their hearts and souls into it, lives were lived there, and there was history there. However the new house will represent a new chapter.

@jonnda 2 года назад

I feel the same way.

@hotdogs5265 2 года назад

I can't stand seeing stuff, especially good stuff, all to replace with something that probably won't last as long. We so easily tear everything g down in America these days and never retro fit or repurpose where buildings in Europe are hundreds of years old

@turdferguson8412 2 года назад

I feel the same way except without the silver lining you added at the end. And to make it worse everything just ended up in the landfill.

@jackjmaheriii 2 года назад

I think we’d all be a lot happier with a little less government.

@cletus7419 2 года назад

A lot less

@madmaxxx1823 2 года назад

Did I miss what you said the total weight/cost was?

@jwesty85 2 года назад

It's in the description.

@davemeiser521 2 года назад

I guess selling, lifting and moving the house to a different property was out of the question, also I know it is faster to just smash it, but were there any materials which could be repurposed?

@hibiki54 2 года назад

That house was probably built in the 50s and had asbestos. Nothing can be repurposed.

@ridenorthwest1687 2 года назад

The cost of moving and/or repurposing always far outweighs the cost of smashing it to bits.

@haphazard1342 2 года назад

@@hibiki54 He said at the start of the video that the asbestos had already been removed.

@mousefad3673 2 года назад

@@ridenorthwest1687 monetary cost

@mikenormandy9250 2 года назад

Yea, I mean could've ripped out the electrical wire and/or plumbing pipes and scrapped the copper...That would've been recycled...

@billlynch8397 2 года назад

I would have liked to see more of an effort to recycle some of the building materials as they are so expensive now

@Norm475 2 года назад

I had an uncle that could have taken care of that for a few hundred bucks. He was the unluckiest person I knew. I think he had about three insurance claims for a fire burning a building down.

@Schranzoslavek 2 года назад

I've only played with a 2,5T forklift and it was a lot of fun, but watching pros doing their thing it's just a joy to watch.

@hotdogs5265 2 года назад

Can't build 2 houses in 4 acres and we still think we are free.

@chrisfreemesser5707 2 года назад

Amazing how precise a skilled operator can be with one of those excavators...definitely seems like it wasn't this guy's first time demoing a house. And the stop motion effect you added here and there was really cool Nate...Ray Harryhausen would be pleased 😉

@steved8272 2 года назад

They should paint dinosaur's eyes on the buckets.

@jk3dad 2 года назад

a farm I hunted in Niagara county NY had 4 huge barns on it. The owner made arrangements to let the local fire company use one of the barns that was beyond saving for practice. Unfortunately the firefighters got way too zealous and ended up burning a second barn that was still in good shape. Needless to say he was not happy !

@jedgeco Год назад

Machines and labor: $2300.00 Holy crap, that seems like a steal. Here, I pay more than that for 8 hours of plumbing work.

@blusnuby2 Год назад

Demolition: The first step in any (building) project. Very nice efficient job. Thanks for sharing.

@mikescheve429 2 года назад

That was really cool to watch. Thanks for sharing Nate!!

@magnoid 2 года назад

instead of calm acoustic guitar, for this video you should have had some heavy metal :)

@dosadoodle 2 года назад

Do any trade programs bring students to homes that are being demoed to pull pieces off and see what worked and what didn't? Even familiarizing with the construction of old homes in an area can be informative.

@zachv1942 2 года назад

Doesn't make any sense. Carpentry and general contracting is the same

@cyclesingsleep 2 года назад

When are enough of us going to be intelligent enough to push back against government overreach? Ya'll're great! Thanks for all of the 'how to's' and stories!

@codycharles7147 2 года назад

I'd love the government to tell me what I can and can't do on my property. I do not need permission to do anything on my property.

@zachv1942 2 года назад

@@codycharles7147 yea you do. Don't t lie.

@GrampalettasCamp 2 года назад

I wouldn’t classify it as Overreach. The officials are following the regulations imposed on them or they lose their job.we need community and lawmakers to discuss and debate with a win-win attitude not zero-sum. We can all be part of better regulations

@KristopherChambers 2 года назад

There's going to be an endless number of comments about not reclaiming the materials from this but as someone who's actually torn down and reclaimed material from structures like this, it's really not worth it unless you have a large amount of free labor and then it's only worth it if you need the lumber to build outbuildings or other non-habitable structures since none of it can be reused for anything structural. And who wants to use old carpet from a home you know nothing about or a 50-year-old tub surround. I'm sure anything of value was removed before they tore it down.

@essentialcraftsman 2 года назад

Thank you. Thank you.

@michiganporter 2 года назад

Oh crap I thought the chimney was gonna hit the yellow excavator! Lol no worries good work fellers!

@jaytigra2234 2 года назад

Too bad you don't have Amish folks around, They would have taken that house down piece by piece and reused a good portion of the material. I hate to see such waste. Just think of the cost of the heavy equipment, the cost to haul it to a land fill and the land fill dumping fee. This is just "old thinking". I would hope that a Craftsman would see the waste.. Yes the safety issue is a concern but a Craftsman is careful and respectful of all hazards. I enjoy your channel and agree with most of your thinking, but this is over the top.

@generalesdeath8180 Год назад

Man, I wish i lived closer. I desperately need materials for repairs to my roof, fascia, back and front patio overhang, my shed, 2 small sections of fence, interior doors, base board, etc. that I can't afford to buy and it would have been a huge blessing to come and tear down that house and garage and load up a trailer with all that perfectly good wood.

@dakel20 2 года назад

Single family zoning is a horrible thing. Damn shame they forced you to demo that house because of it. Watching all that old growth timber get torn up and thrown out really hurts as well.. Yikes..

@WayneWerner 2 года назад

right? All that gorgeous seasoned wood just turned into kindling was absolutely heartbreaking

@zachv1942 2 года назад

They could have used the existing house lolz. Blame the owner of the lot for the waste.

@haphazard1342 2 года назад

@@zachv1942 For wanting to get more out of their land? Absolutely not. Seems like they would have been perfectly happy to keep the house, but were prevented by outmoded single family zoning restrictions. Single family zoning is bad for homeowners and land owners, bad for housing costs, and bad for the environment. It's always better to build up on suitable land that's already developed than it is to increase sprawl.

@brewster3987 2 года назад

I don't see a house demolition... I see a big yellow dinosaur and a smaller orange dinosaur having lunch.

@yamspaine Год назад

it seems like the city could let the fire department accept the house for burning and allow construction before the house is burnt down...

@villagesmith636 2 года назад

Such a shame that it had to go to landfill prior to any recycling attempts. Given the price of wood these days,

@andrewc6385 2 года назад

Its a god send that someone as experienced and knowledgable as yourself in the trades has the ability to upload these vids on a successful channel. I think of other carpenters like yourself that wouldnt be able to share their tips because they wouldnt even know what youtube is. Thanks

@treyhart6861 Год назад

Hey, just post a Craigslist ad for "free lumber! Must remove yourself" the house will be gone in a week! 🤣 It's really a shame to see a "perfectly good house" get torn down, but at the same time, you mentioned asbestos, which means it's a 1960's house, so we are talking 2x4 walls and r13 insulation, small rooms, poor layout, overall, an energy hog... I know this sounds bad, but more of those older houses need to be torn down and replaced with more energy efficient homes.

@Xeddyhime 2 года назад

The precision with which these pros operate their heavy machinery is very impressive. Despite the incredible power and mass in play, it almost looks like a delicate operation.

@johnpackwood4779 2 года назад

It made me see mama machine teaching baby machine life skills. Yes impressive skill.

@robstephens 2 года назад

Could you have kept the carport portion and converted it into a shop or other use?

@orangetruckman Год назад

As someone that used to do demolition and load 20, 30, 40, and 50 yrs boxes. I can tell you that breaking all that material in small pieces is just wasting time. Not only I was I able to pull the building down in a cleaner fashion, but load the drop boxes such that they’d be at or overweight. Demolishing a home that size would take about 1 day total and about 3 of the 40 yard drop boxes.

@joeidaho5938 2 года назад

Here in Toronto, the demolition of perfectly good houses happens all the time....and I find it all very disturbing...and here it's all for profit for speculators. It's a horrible pattern, as it divides the community in a big way. The people who live in what was considered a normal house in this area....and those who live in new monster homes selling for anywhere from $3 million to $5 million. No one, including the city, seems to care about how blatantly communities are being torn apart.....while catering to only profit and speculation as reasons for municipal decisions.

@MikeHarris1984 Год назад

It was the mama and baby backhoe's munching away at that house, LOL.

@TikiWarrior 2 года назад

Is there an option to subdivide the lot so the house could legally survive?

@WalterRiggs 2 года назад

Government is good for many things: defense, infrastructure, healthcare (in most countries), making sure people are treated fairly by those of extravagant means (again in most countries) … then there’s this.

@andydsimmons 2 года назад

Great video and love the music. Unfortunate that you were forced to go this way. Thanks for sharing

@sjfodor 2 года назад

Great video Nate. The Timelapse was well done. Shame they would let you keep a second home on the property.

@trevorwinter5071 2 года назад

With the price of heating now I hope the replacement house is better insulated !

@michael-michaelmotorcycle 2 года назад

He stated that they previously removed all of the ACM (asbestos containing materials). So that would’ve been most if not all of the insulation. Also, did you see any drywall? No, because drywall older than a certain year contains asbestos. Flooring & flooring adhesives prior to that same year contained asbestos as well. I cannot recall the year they stopped using asbestos in construction materials but I believe it was late 1980s early 90s - I used to know, but it’s been 15 years since I worked as an abatement supervisor

@GRUBB-MUDD 2 года назад

Yes sir! Another banger! *LITERALLY*

@saltydroog854 Год назад

Was there not enough frontage for a subdivide? Even an easement? I own a house on enough land for a subdivide, but I have just barely enough frontage for code compliance. Next to me is a very small ranch that is almost out of place in the neighborhood. My plan, when they are ready, is to buy it, and add it to my land. With their frontage and mine, there would be enough to build 2 (mine and a new one) houses with proper frontage, and a 30' easement to a back lot, for a 3rd house code compliant to set back lots in my town. So, I have a feeling I'll be in the same boat, where I'll be tearing down a perfectly good, albeit small, house so I can place one on the lot to accommodate an easement between our properties.

@codycharles7147 2 года назад

I don't usually follow crowds, but I'm with the comment section. A lot of beautiful old growth thrown away, not even to be compost as it will be too mixed up with plastic.

@debby8428 Год назад

Two years ago we decided to take a rotting sunroom down and rebuild it as a family room. It had 7 sets of sliding glass doors. We carefully removed them and donated them to habitat for humanity. The rest of the room was completely rotted from termites (we unfortunately inherited that problem from the previous owners). We had our son and son in law join us for the weekend to help take it down piece by piece. My neighbor happened to have the claw truck and came over with it. Within 3 hours it was completely down and in a dumpster. He refused money from us. What a God send he was that day.

@jonathanr9051 2 года назад

I might be getting ahead cuz I’m commenting mid video but why not strip the recyclables like gutters/copper wire first?

@rjtumble 2 года назад

Hi Nate, I'd love to know the cost of this. I'm in a similar situation, I'm going to be building a house on my lot (where I have an existing house). I need to check with the county to see if they'll let me live in the current house until the other one is built, then tear this one down. Would be a lot more convenient than tearing it down and living somewhere else for the duration of the build.

@jedidiahbrase4062 2 года назад

In the video description above he said it cost about $5,000.

@rjtumble 2 года назад

@@jedidiahbrase4062 Didn't even notice that, thanks!

@FirstLastOne Год назад

Don't expect common sense from the bureaucrats. If you do get that allowance, hell is freezing over and you really should buy a lottery ticket or two.

@bjorn6437 2 года назад

Here in Germany you would have to seperate all different kinds of waste: Metal, glass, wood, stone and concrete etc. Some materials would be special waste eg. insulation, composite materials. Dumping everything in a landfill would be unthinkable. 😲

@dbasiliere 2 года назад

W0W, That big yellow beast is hungry.

@Tiersmoke92555 2 года назад

We have to separate the debries here in MD

@LF12468 2 года назад

If my county told me I couldn't build another home on my 4 acres, that property would be sold to highest bidder that day! What a simp this guy is.

@wpherigo1 2 года назад

I’m sure you’ve wondered this too, but is there any value to demoing in such a way that materials can be recycled/reused? I know this is the standard approach, and you are certainly doing it right. All that lumber has to be useful for something else, surely. Roofing materials ? Wiring? Bricks? I know it is probably cost prohibitive for that to happen…. Or does that happen later on?

@Awegner176 2 года назад

Fun fact- the NEC specifically calls out and prohibits the re-use of any wiring, receptacles, etc.

@SaikouHD 2 года назад

Definitely a lot of value, in the UK buildings arent so much demolished as they are dismantled. Most of the time anyway.

@dgojpr 2 года назад

I get the electrical couldn't be reused, but doors and windows could be. I love seeing greenhouse built from repurposed windows!

@nathang.1561 2 года назад

It's too bad the local government made them to tear down a perfectly good house but taking it apart piece by piece and reusing it is not remotely worth anyone's time in a region with abundant building materials. Trying to repurpose anything but maybe the brick would amount to mental illness/hoarding behavior

@markbell9742 2 года назад

Here in Tucson we can build (with some restrictions) both in the city and county a 'casita'. Generally a smaller fulling functional living area (bath, bedroom(s), kitchen, . . . ) sometimes refereed to as a 'mother-in-law apartment'. Cheers, Mark

@verohandymike Год назад

Just wondering if the property could have been divided in two? What if someone wanted that house to buy with just a little piece of the 3+ acres, couldn't it have been sold? So by the same token, couldn't you have simply divided the property up while listing the same owner on both titles?

@chrisbarr1359 2 года назад

Water keeps the dust down. But water increases the weight of debris and disposal costs. 8.6 pounds per gallon of water.

@Jeremy-iv9bc 2 года назад

WHAT A WASTE!!1!!!! Kids in Africa could have eaten that house!

@74stevedc 2 года назад

I'm guessing 5 dumpsters for the wood not concrete ?

@FWtravels 2 года назад

Here in Detroit you can buy a house for $500

@jdugger8679 2 года назад

I hate to see a good house go, but boy that would be fun to do. 😂

@matthewerwin4677 2 года назад

Only if you have a enclosed cab. The dust is horrible. You get covered in fiberglass the entire time.

@jamesbeecher4431 Год назад

If you let the fire department, use the home for live burn training you would also have to remediate the hazards, such as asbestoses, in the home before the fire department would be allowed to burn it.

@johnlyn1 Год назад

Looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. Robot dinosaur eating a house. LOL

@lumberjackdreamer6267 Год назад

Limitation is on the number of habitable residences. Transforming the former house into a workshop or storage is allowable. But nobody is allowed to live inside.

@Edward-xj4mp 2 года назад

If you think about the resources it takes to build a house, and the green revolution that's been ongoing, tearing this perfectly good home down just because of beaurocratic red tape is so counter productive and just frustrating.

@seanm3226 2 года назад

The “green revolution” is not a real thing.

@s0nnyburnett 2 года назад

Wait until you learn about the EPA and their shenanigans.

@nickb.237 2 года назад

It’s pretty sad watching a house be demolished lol. Excited to see the new build though!

@thetommantom 2 года назад

Did they put that slab straight on the dirt?

@aidencleary 2 года назад

What a waste. Humans are so weird. Those rules don't make any sense at all.

@tMatt5M 2 года назад

That's sort of the catch. People aren't making these decisions really. Faceless bureaucrats looking at laws written by other faceless bureaucrats. Nobody actually makes a judgement call.

@quazorgemash 2 года назад

Neat video. I know I wouldn't have been able to leave the copper wiring.

@BigmoRivera Год назад

Big Prop Great Job Guys😉👍🏽

@NElj-yq9qi 2 года назад

This house in our neck of the woods would have been given to someone to move onto a new lot. Cut the garage from the house and move it on it's own. We do it all the time, giving some one a cheap and affordable home.

@seanm3226 2 года назад

This was not a particularly attractive or historic house. Impractical in this situation.

@gordonclark7632 2 года назад

I thought the chimney would be the last man standing but it succumbed to its injuries so soon.

@aNeReplays Год назад

Just build a long covered walkway from that house to the new house. Bingo. An add-on.

@jarretwasko3976 2 года назад

I'll have to look back at any other videos on the channel since I'm still focused on catching up with the amazing spec house series, so apologies if this was answered elsewhere: Was applying for a zoning variance something you specifically tried for this? Thanks for all you do and share, Essential Craftsman!

@dangerdave616 2 года назад

I thought this was a Camerata video in my feed at first. Love a good demo vid.

@ramanshah7627 Год назад

What a shame - especially in the current time with a housing supply shortage making homeownership so unaffordable. Zoning reform can't come soon enough.

@felixantoinetremblay 2 года назад

If I was paying by the ton, I would've put as little water as I could. Is it mandatory?

@CertifiedGasSystems Год назад

But how much does a house weigh? Not including all that concrete, which isn’t part of crawlspace houses.

@Judahmangi 2 года назад

Watching this filled me with a strange melancholy...

@TTundragrizzly Год назад

Not sure why this is so satisfying. But it is

@alexabbona8534 2 года назад

Excellent content Nate, thanks for this

@ericrosolack4561 2 года назад

I was curious as to what the weight worked out to be. Thanks

@isaacgoliday1176 Год назад

Did you try to have the assessors office and a title company split the parcel into two parcels?

@joshcowart2446 2 года назад

This looks like so much fun. I’ve demoed many different things in my life but every time there was something underneath that wasn’t being demoed so I’ve never been able to go balls to the wall and just destroy everything. I bet it’s cathartic.

@wsbnews4270 Год назад

There's a process... It's not as fun as it looks, but close.

@tonyn3123 2 года назад

Cleanest demo I have ever witnessed. Thanks.

@MattAtHazmat 2 года назад

Should you demolish a house in this way again- a time lapse of the entire process from a single elevated vantage point (a utility pole?) would be awesome.

@daleannharsh8295 2 года назад

It's amazing how precise they can be with those big machines. Must be a lot of years of experience sitting in those seats. It's a shame it had to go but that looks like a pretty nice lot to work with now that it's cleaned up.

@user-uj8og9cm9d Год назад

I spent about 20 hours in a digger over the course of 3 days and felt like I could probably roll a cigarette with it if it had 2 arms. I reckon if you do it full time for a month you're pretty pro, its extremely intuitive.

@murraystewartj Год назад

I've just used the mini excavators but the principle is the same. There is a magic point at which you are no longer thinking (almost out loud at first) about each step and the machine is suddenly an extension of your body. Everything - hand-eye coordination, muscle memory and the feedback the machine itself gives you just all come together.