Demolishing My Garage Using Only Hand Tools

[@POOCHIESCLOSET]

I have the twin to this garage in my backyard. About the same size and it's clad in cedar. I just love that old thing but I want to convert it into a livable space. Thanks for sharing.

[@Stillwater6488]

This is extremely helpful thank u

[@CMWBNS]

Is it best to start on the roof and work down or just a preference? Trying to figure out how to take down an ancient carriage barn🤔

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

I'm not sure on best way, but I approached this backwards to how it would be built and that worked well for this garage.

[@Andross75]

How did you dispose of the garage door and related materials?

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

Anything that was salvageable was saved, and either kept for future projects or sold. Everything that was "junk" was taken to the landfill.

[@naomiemikulu5512]

How did you go around eletricals???

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

It was disconnected from the main breaker in the house so there was no power to the garage when being tore down

[@courtneyschwichtenberg8525]

How many hours did this take overall?

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

Me and my dad got it done in a weekend (16-18ish hours). If we were just going to demo it without trying to save any of the good boards we could have finished in a day easily.

[@nucklegame77]

why did you do tear it down?

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

It was gonna cost close to 1k to have it demolished, and at the time lumber was expensive so I recycled a lot of what I tore down for other projects.

[@nucklegame77]

@@ThrownSparksGarage yes but what reason for tearing it down? I understand why you did it yourself.

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

Built a bigger garage

[@CycleNorthCrew]

Does your garage back right onto the neighbors lawn?

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

No but they made the back of my garage part of their fence

[@CycleNorthCrew]

@@ThrownSparksGarage Will you be able to do that with your new garage?

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

No it’ll be farther off the property line

[@dirtypokesouthsideofh-town552]

@@ThrownSparksGarage I have to do this same job on my old garage. It's leaning and it has a lot of rotten wood on it. Do you think you could have done this entire job alone? I will be pretty much working by myself. Thanks.

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

Yeah I could have done it alone, I would have cut the boards into smaller more manageable pieces if doing it solo.

[@AmB39]

What did you do with the siding you saved?

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

Holding onto it for some future projects

[@Moes_Prep_and_Tech]

I want to turn my Garage into a Solar Pergola, Debating on tearing the whole thing down and starting over or converting it somehow.

[@DonaldMoore-e2s]

Where is the technical information on HOW TO USE HAND TOOLS

[@CMWBNS]

There's this thing called KZbin where you can search it for yourself 🤔😉

[@darrellwood79]

Ball park price for garage demo if you were to do it for a customer....customer want me to tear down garage

[@ThrownSparksGarage]

I know the guy who was going to demo my garage was gonna use a mini excavator and I saved around 800 tearing the garage down myself.

[@Electricspaghetti369]

don't cut that building up for a while. Some upper class yuppie would pay handsomely for it!