www.pedestrians... An excavator demolishes a house on Arlington Road in Bethesda, Maryland. Several houses were being razed to make way for a new apartment building. Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".
@Lip Smacker Notice the phrasing "looked mint" I don't know the house, I did not write "is mint" I was Judging by the exterior appearance and what we could see of the interior as he dug into it, I stand by my comment. It might have been a rat dumpster, but we surly did not see that in any way. Hence it looked mint!
@@MrLuka10 It's newer. Engineered floor joists and ridge board, plywood subflooring, OSB wall and roof sheathing, 2x10 (or 12) roof rafters (used to accommodate R30 or 38 insulation)...older houses used 2x6 or less, imitation shingle siding that comes in panels, not individual pieces, Tyvek House Wrap, Hardie lap siding, insulation inside the walls, etc., etc. But the biggest give away is that the lumber is not very aged. Is is still very light colored. A house from the time period that that house is copying, would be very dark colored. I have been in construction for over 40 years, and a home builder for 25....
If it were me i would have had someone else just just everything out such as the sewer and such along with with the foundation then gone from there before starting from scratch if it were to be cheaper then starting from scratch just saying
Yeah. Got me thinking that the old neighborhood my grandparents used to live at (became rotted with crime) as well as the one my aunt and uncle have been living in for over 30 years will surely be torn down. I spent the best days of my childhood in those homes. I’d be saddened to learn of them being demolished.
@geo752 ~ Property developers don’t have time to recycle, the sooner they can bowl this over and build new, the sooner they can sell them for a profit and pay back their investors and the bank.
Yeah those developers dont do anything to communities, i mean people in the neighborhood could have recycled stuff and used it, but they just tear down nice buildings, and build shitty condos that are overcharged
Sounds like my old apartment which was an army barracks and builtIn 1947. No insulation inside or outside walls ,all kinds of cheap pretty textured paint that rubs off of you touch it,faucets and toilet are cheap; there’s a crawlspace under the house with mobile home housing around the perimeter kind of , holes in the floor with her water pipes and gas pipes come up from the outside making floors too cold to even stand on and winter. I’ve been here nearly 8 years. I stay because I feed homeless cats, but there will come a day when I’ll be gone from here and that SOB that I rent from can take this place and shove it 😡
Every time my company does a demo I always think about how long it took to build what we are tearing down in the matter of days sometimes hours.. I made a pretty cool time lapse of a big industrial demolition we did on our channel one of my favorites!
That external steel fire escape tells me the house was not a family home but a commercial rooming house. Tears shed for a family home being demolished are wasted.
Interesting thing is that house was fairly new. Its construction contained oriented strand board and Tyvek wrap. Plus, the dimensional lumber making up the framing is still very light in color. Not yet darkened with age. Looks almost like it was just delivered from the lumber yard.
Real estate records say the original house was built in 1928, which is typical for this neighborhood. In recent years it had been used for a law office. I don't know how much of the original still existed under the additions and modifications with modern materials.
@@JohnZWetmore Thanks for the reply. That age is surprising. At some point in the last 3 decades, the house might have had its envelope completely redone, which could explain the OSB and Tyvek. The framing lumber looking so fresh is a mystery, though. I've renovated (to the studs) a couple 1920s houses in my area and the framing was darkened and dull with age. Didn't have that golden look of newly milled wood any more.
I am not familiar enough with that street to know if the 1928 house was completely torn down and replaced a couple of decades ago. In this county we had a lot of "renovations" that left nothing more than a single wall and chimney from the old house (something to do with different permitting requirements for "renovations" vs. "new construction").
@@JohnZWetmore Oh, yes. We have that same loophole where I live (what's effectively a demolition is classified as a renovation if only one original wall remains standing) and the builders/developers aren't shy about using it. My city used to balance historic home and building protections with redevelopment needs. Over the past 20 years, though, an influx of new residents (and real estate capital) from other places has transformed the City's outlook. Now, even registered structures that are supposed to have some modest protections are being gleefully razed at lightning pace through loopholes like this.
Doors are pretty standard in size and some of the old solid ones can be worth a lot of money. Mantle pieces, too, but window sizes can be all over the place, especially replacement windows, which these looked to be. It's a lot of money just being thrown out, but it's not practical to try to sell them because it's hard to impossible to match their opening sizes, mounting systems, style and number with another house.
wow i look up house demolition and a video in my home town is the first thing to pop up i was there when it was being taken down and i can say that the smell was bad. and if there was a view of the street you would have seen me walk by.
That digger probably could of done it in 5 seconds. But yes it shows that the way houses are built have no defence against natural disasters like tornadoes.
what a waste. that home isn't that old.. you people wonder why aware resources are depleted in a alarming rate .and prices for building materials are so high....here it is. the reason why .
That was a nice house, Ican understand if it had to be taken down, cause it it had termites or was past the extermination? due to the damage these critters can create, but if that house was ok, the construction was ok, looking at how some of the houses or apartments are constructed the newer development has me questioning how safe are they in comparison to the original house , that a good foundation.
Hi I just start construction company in Canada 🇨🇦 and I have similar project to put same this house down , job like that how much coast around pls , I dont know how much I have to charge my client .
For the houses along Arlington Road, the front yards were very small, so they had a lot more room to work from the back. (Arlington Road had been widened many years ago, taking away most of the front yard area that used to exist.) Here is a house elsewhere where they started from the front: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TY88zo-AfoY.html
I would buy that repaint it put in new appliances systems etc make a nice front lawn and furnish it nicely. But these money hungry investors want plain new condos that have no charm. It’s sad. :(
Nah. They didn't even need that cruddy garden hose to hit the dust, cos there was barely any generated. No plaster. No sawdust insulation. And given the size of the structure? It came down FAST. Built between 1995-2004.
