House Demolition 2, Old Georgetown

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Demolition of a house on the grounds of the Christ Lutheran Church on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, Maryland. It will be replaced by an apartment building.
Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".

[@fredrobinson6990]

The old bathtub looks like it has some value. Good job demolishing the old structure.

[@bengorrell2658]

I hate to see old places get torn down but sometimes they are just to far gone. Thinking of the memories made in that house saddens me.

[@willemvdspek]

so sad to tear down history..

[@AK-47ISTHEWAY]

History doesn't last forever. Far enough into the future nothing is going to survive. Not even the Sun and Earth.

[@alquarius86]

Im thinking the same thing, and they could have saved it and moved it somewhere else and still able to build whatever they want.

[@joker_storm2232]

@@alquarius86 and who's going to pay for it? You? You ever look up how much it costs to move a building?

[@LateNightVapeShow1]

I’m new to this channel and I’m watching through the videos. Time very well wasted. Thank you

[@bellaxxi4116]

I worked at a scrap yard and I operated a Komastu PC220LC with the same exact claw on it. The teeth always broke off but I was always grabbing huge chunks of steel not soft wood 😂

[@georgefilippello7972]

Just think of all the family memories in that home ,and the loss of all that archetecture . So sad

[@lickablestinkage7783]

the house was likely already falling apart, they dont just tear them down for no reason, someone likely looked at this house and carefully considered wether it would be worth saving or not and ultimately decided it wasnt.

[@krazyj1957]

@@lickablestinkage7783 replacing with apartment building is a good reason for whoever is replacing it. I've seen whole subdivisions ripped down for businesses.

[@milfordcivic6755]

It wasn't worth saving or restoring. If it was, someone would have done so.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

Fantastic video. High Res, from a tripod with good angles. I wish other demo videographers could aspire to this quality!

[@destructionnation704]

I follow in his footsteps with my channel

[@zyawotha]

great camerawork. nice to see things like this shot on a tripod

[@bettyprice6316]

The power of those machines scare, and excite me at the same time.

[@danburch9989]

Is that what they mean by a house with an open floor plan?😆

[@nancyweliczko9334]

So sad what a waste of a nice old home and a claw foot bath tub.

[@user-ge2qn6gp4o]

Was thinking the same thing about the tub.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@user-ge2qn6gp4o Nobody wants those. People like contemporary bathroom fittings nowadays. It's easy to get rid of them though. Just smash it up with a sledgehammer.

[@JosephBenRobert]

It makes me sad my boyhood home was not that far from there (Greenwich Forest).

[@BfloTank]

I FINALLY FOUND an AWESOME channel with House demolition. Thank you from Buffalo, New York.

[@mrmoses7170]

Demolition without removing windows, cables etc, is illegal in EU

[@JP-uk9uc]

Why?

[@noahhollanders]

@@JP-uk9uc in the eu everything has to be sorted during demolition and we do not work like this, you just have to look up demolition companies eu

[@warrendurham7358]

Who cares

[@HobbyOrganist]

Not in American, we LOVE squandering, wasting, and throwing anything and everything away, that's why we dont have surviving buildings hundreds of years old like they do in Europe, now a 30 year old building is "old and outdated" and costs more (allegedly) to repair/renovate than demolish, landfill the debris and build new. There were fantastic ornate Victorian jewels built in the 19th and early 20th century, mansions, city Halls, etc and more built from quality materials like stone, solid brick, oak, marble, bronze, cast iron and demolished less than 30 years later! Look up the Singer building NY City, it barely lasted 60 years before they demolished that skyscraper- it was 47 stories high, built in 1908 and destroyed in 1968. Pictures show an ornate attrative, interesting building made of brick, hand carved stone, and inside there were a lot of things made of solid bronze, marble, oak. The ground floor had vaulted ceilings, all of it wrecked and landfilled for an ugly glass box that replaced it.

[@fireforcecreative]

Looks so much fun!

[@dmacnet]

This white building was the Bethesda Fellowship House, a daytime respite center for elderly adults with memory impairments from Alzheimers and strokes. It had an RN on staff and was run by Christ Lutheran Church.

[@JP-uk9uc]

Why the demolition?

[@JohnZWetmore]

It's being replaced by apartments.

[@jbear7580]

It makes me sad to watch knowing that someone probably has fond childhood memories of growing up in that house...

[@user-sz4wh6ys4n]

Тоже самое только без бошки

[@elainekayes8087]

So terrible that a beautiful building is destroyed

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

I enjoyed the demolition. There will be nice new apartments built which will help the community with new housing stock. Repurpose the land.... surely something to be celebrated!

[@manolagiovannetti4960]

​@@PreservationEnthusiast 😂😂😂😂😂

[@valenzaplumbing]

This building was not beautiful in any way. Very plain.

[@joeyjackson3117]

@@valenzaplumbingI guarantee they are tree huggers

[@MrMrScotti]

Firetrap

[@deanh7190]

I imagined that to be my nosy neighbors home. Very theraputic. TY.

[@rhythmblackheart917]

Absolutely excellent video john!!!

[@JohnZWetmore]

Thanks.

[@mollysunshine8312]

Awesome video, but I saw a nice claw leg bathtub, I wish they would save stuff like that, I just bought a refinished one for my remodel on my masterbath, cost me $1800 and here they just trashed it.

[@HobbyOrganist]

They still make them brand new without chips and scratches for $900 and up... The Tub Connection 67 inch Cast Iron Slipper Clawfoot Tub Now: $1,494.00 SKU: TC67STCIORB-NH Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours

[@carlosrabico9452]

Aqui no Brasil a gente trabalha até morrer para pagar um aluguel digno. Financiar uma casa aqui é para pagar em 30 anos. Isso quando se consegue aprovar um financiamento. Por isso dói tanto ver uma casa tão boa ser demolida.

[@_ford_crown_victoria_p]

This is both awesome and sad…

[@richardurnick8369]

Thanks for the enjoyment,

[@super9_55]

Never seen an excavator use a weapon before!

[@Stephen_A.]

That was some serious battering ram tool. 😊

[@davidwayne9982]

THAT one on the end looks like the AMITYVILLE HORROR house anyway-- good to see it gone.

[@paulhough5143]

Hello people what is the reason why this house is getting nocked down for and also what year did it get abandoned in please.

[@Dave-co1cv]

I'm very surprised someone didn't salvage the cast iron bathtub seen at 11:30. They are in demand and few and far between these days. It was a senseless waste for sure. If I had been the excavator operator I would have set it to the side and kept it.

[@johnbewick6357]

Exactly what I was thinking, Dave.

[@samanthaanne246]

For real !!! especially if it had eagle claw ball footings! What a waste. All this Cape Cod home needed was some TLC

[@Dave-co1cv]

@Samantha Wallace It was torn down so the land could be used for a larger home, but some things like the tub should have been salvage.

[@debbiebelden4359]

they seldom salvage anything , so much waste

[@valenzaplumbing]

@@debbiebelden4359Besides some old cast iron pipes and maybe some copper wiring, what else are you going to save? There’s nothing in that place worth saving.

[@paulhough5143]

Hello people what year was this house built in please.

[@kingahmahn7753]

Are you going to get video footage of the demolition project near John Hopkins on West 29th Street ?

[@JohnZWetmore]

I sometimes get to Baltimore to film demolitions. Is there a good source of information on when the demolition will take place? [e-mail]

[@kingahmahn7753]

@@JohnZWetmore I'm not sure yet all I know is its coming down soon Berg demolition didn't get this one Potts & Callahan got the bid

[@efslaman6291]

Were those mattresses on the top floor? , probably had some rough sleeping there, sad

[@gskeezyio]

That bob cat tho 😂😂😂

[@lappilappland3708]

Here you see the Big difference to other Countrys. In Germany there are different disposal classes. Stone, Wood,,Plastic,and this was is Dangerous for the Environment like Tarpaper or other stuff like Asbestos, When you mix it ,they automatic put you on the highest Price of the Load. Means ,when they find Tarpaper you have the Pay the highest Fee, when you have only Stone or Wood it´s even more than the Half of the Fee. Sure It takes more Time to Tear Down a Building with mixed building materials, but for this you pay much less at the Dump.

[@trivialinsignific]

HEY ! my house ! what did you do ?

[@TheWheels1965]

Imagine what the ghost in the house is thinking! WTF

[@constructionwatcher5381]

Thanks, John. That was a quick one.

[@JohnZWetmore]

When you don't have to keep different materials separate, and there isn't anything nearby that could get hit by falling debris, it can go pretty fast.

[@GoldsConcrete]

All this house needed was a good basement digout from us and it would have been almost brand new haha

[@MBTAMoreRailfan]

So awesome. Very experienced operator. A pleasure

[@57HarleyDavidson]

Why was the house town down?

[@airamcompean165]

Nooo it was a really nice house😭

[@anthonyfeeney1210]

Have a Beer on Anthony

[@danielfantino1714]

Nice wood house for sale in kit form. Just bring your glue .

[@janeblake5083]

Available at Ikea, for limited time, bathtub included! 😃 Good one!

[@danielfantino1714]

@@janeblake5083 and if you order in the next 15 minutes, you will receive for FREE the OFF GRID with no electric, gaz or water bill. NEVER !

[@philipinchina]

All that wood would have run my wood burners for a whole winter.

[@jackyclaiborne2142]

35 years ago, structures like this used to be bulldozed. Larger structures were demolished by crane and wrecking ball. Now, most structures back hoed when demolished.

[@danburch9989]

With quality of the buildings today they can almost be blown down with a stiff breeze (figuratively speaking, of course).

[@KevinEllisGuitars]

Cool!

[@meddylad]

God dammit Jerry, I told you it was number 34..... thats 43 !!

[@toddistre781]

What's with the water,?

[@jethrofan4452]

I've seen people living in houses worse than this one.

[@worldcooking]

It is a great pleasure to watch this whole video, to see how easily a house is demolished!

[@KevinEllisGuitars]

Nice!

[@chosenone101]

The house kinda had that Amityville feel to it.

[@richardbaker7557]

what a shame

[@mrknotthall]

That old bath tub was worth some $$$$

[@HobbyOrganist]

Not really, they are as common as telephone poles and they are still made brand-new

[@mrknotthall]

@@HobbyOrganist They're worth some money in my city.

[@catkeys6911]

"Beware the Jabberwok, my son, the jaws that bite, the claws that catch! What if this thing had a hydraulic cylinder for the *lower* jaw, as well? -Ok, just watched another one with a jabberwok that DID have power in both the upper and lower jaw. And, unsurprisingly, it was a definite advantage.

[@yvesschubert2864]

This is the most rookie demolition I have ever seen. You brought an I beam to demo a house? Lmao

[@mlbabineaux]

Love those old brick chimneys

[@stepheneggert7388]

The church needs more parking I bet..sad to hear it's was removed for Apts homes...folks need a church ..to worship..and we need more prayers..today. ty

[@JohnZWetmore]

The church is also being torn down. Apartments are going up. Church Demolition (Part 1), Bethesda kzbin.info/www/bejne/imOQe5uBiK-HmNk

[@onceuponababygalleryhuntin6316]

What happened where are the people who owned it? They must have loved that roomy house at one point very nice home for gatherings as well ❤️🌷💕☀️

[@chonkygoose1818]

Nintendo when they find out about a Italian orphanage with a kid named Luigi in it.

[@mrk1075]

That has to be a fun job! 🙂

[@user-pd7ki5qs5i]

every house in Bethesda should be like this

[@kevindunlap5525]

And another classic church building in a beautiful part of town turns into apartments.

[@HobbyOrganist]

People are falling OUT of love with these do-nothing, useless religions that promise a lot they can't deliver in exchange for people's MONEY, churches are closing all over the US and Europe due to dwindling congregations, there are entire salvage companies that do nothing but salvage and resell church furnishings and artifacts from church demolitions- statues, decor, slate, stained glass, pews, all of it to bars, offices, homeowners etc

[@korhing1066]

Do you guys check the address first ?

[@HouseWinchester1874]

The building didn’t look that bad thought. Seems a bit of a waste

[@OFCbigduke613]

All that water is going to ruin the carpet😁

[@RandomDude989]

Sure hope they walked through it before hand to make sure some homeless person didn't sneak in.

[@user-ge2qn6gp4o]

Sure they would have heard them screaming.

[@robertrockwell7581]

looks like it could have been restored. what a shame.

[@riverflyswatter]

What happened inside that house! Why wasn’t anything recycled. I’m not a tree hugger. I could of used that tub and window sashes and paid for a day inside removing recyclables

[@phild8095]

Seriously, the copper thieves could have had a field day. And I'm sure there was some nice woodwork in the place that could have been salvaged. And everyone loved the tub.

[@Whitehousebeetle]

First minutes I thought he was landscaping....

[@xicex9851]

That's the wrong house mate!

[@danhertel4604]

I don't understand why they don't park the dump truck next to the house and fill it as they bite off chunks and not have to handle everything twice.

[@gliderider7077]

You want to smash or minimize the pieces of debris, smaller pieces means you can fit more into the truck. Usually the demo company pays the landfills per load, more in the truck makes for cheaper cost. Usually the operator will load the trucks by actually sitting on the waste pile which also helps to break it down. IMO this is a messy operator and not very efficient.

[@peskycitizen7582]

Asking since I have no clue … why did they continue spraying water over everything? I can understand getting rid of the hornets nest, but what purpose did it serve after that?

[@JohnZWetmore]

The water helps keep the dust down.

[@OldSlow]

A sad sight, not only for the architecture thats lost, but the complete lack of recycling and sorting of materials. Everything just crushed and piled into the same pile. Just sad.

[@HobbyOrganist]

takes way too much time and the materials not worth the operator and machine costs in time to carefully sort the stuff on site. Back in the old days when the operator maybe was paid $5 an hour or something and they could spend the time to sort the scrap metal and save the windows and flooring they did, but those old windows are single pane junk NOBODY would use today, the standard is dual pane, argon filled, low E windows. It takes way too much time to try and pry up and salvage hardwood flooring and remove all the NAILS board by board, people these days install that laminated crap plastic on chipboard flooring. I remember back in the 70s and 80 in NY City, when buildings were demolished like a 6 story brick tenement- a crew of about half a dozen or so guys would tear the whole thing down one floor a day brick by brick using long prybars, the mortar was like sand, very easy to take the walls down brick by brick, and they'd put the bricks in a dump truck after bumping the mortar off, and they were resold. They also salvaged the floor joists, which were typically pine, about 2x10's 24 feet long but they were rough cut lumber so they were a full 2" if not 2-1/2" thick, and they were spaced on 16" centers. The floors were usually about 75 to 100 feet long, so about 50 or so joists per floor x 6 floors worth= 300 of these, they salvaged those and the doors too- all of which was saleable. I used to salvage the ornamental terracotta, stone and iron for my collection when I started age 13, I'd sneak in the demolition site at night or weekends and remove the stuff from the facade, I accumulated 50 tons worth stored in several storage lofts around Manhattan, It's all detailed in my book "The gargoyler of Greenwich Village" on Amazon 298 pages, lots of photos I shot back then.

[@deanguando1335]

That was a nice bathtub.

[@waylon4772]

Although it's sad to see the house go, I could have lots of uses of all that wood from the sub floor to the boards on the siding to the boards on the roof. Sad to see that taken down instead of it being moved.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

It's not practical to move buildings like this except in one piece and that's prohibitively expensive.

[@catkeys6911]

No one can tell me this is not fun to do. It IS kind of a shame the house had to be destroyed, but working that monster claw that can just swipe through a standing house like it wasn't even there has to be kind of satisfying. So this is how you bring down a condemned wooden house- you just keep biting it with this giant jabberwocky-type machine. I would LOVE to have one of those things- but the world would be in great danger if I did 😜

[@kendym6060]

Do you use a cellphone or a digital camera and i was hoping he would use that medal for something it's baseball time

[@dannylok2812]

29:35 What happened to that pile of scrap after the house was demolished?

[@JohnZWetmore]

The splintered wood will go to a landfill. Metal gets sent to a scrapyard to be melted into new metal. Concrete and brick get crushed to be used as a base layer in paving.

[@webgomer]

That was a substantial house! Sad to see it torn down.

[@ArsenicAcid33]

Substantial..? Most of the time it looked as if he was moving through cardboard.

[@johnevans8553]

What a great job, to be able to work out your frustration and anger on a building, with a great piece of equipment, I love it

[@_nelson]

wasp nest or Hornets nest House looks something build in late 50s

[@cadenconverse15]

Love how he used that steel beam to just take it all down in seconds

[@swanlakelady4180]

I was wondering what it was going to be used for. I was pretty cool!

[@ConstructionMachineryChannel]

@@swanlakelady4180 It's actually really common for them to use a steel beam to demo and cleanup at demo sites.

[@paulthesoundguy1]

Hi, so I thought drive sprockets were to be at the rear of the excavator?

[@Bloodyhangnail]

MY OLD HOME

[@RyanSellman1]

How long did you live in that house?

[@kendrabarbie6909]

HOUSE FOR SALE OR RENT JUST MISSING 1/4 SO A LITTLE DRAFTY NOBWATER OR HYDRO THE PROCE IS GREAT

[@genoudpierre]

Hello, What is the role of water when you water permanently?

[@mikegruber3888]

Dust control

[@HobbyOrganist]

@@mikegruber3888 And it looked very useless, like trying to put out a fireplace fire with a windex bottle LOL

[@tbush6657]

That's one way to remove a hornets nest

[@_nelson]

Not beautiful Looks like house from horror movie New landowner wants to land not the house that's why the house is being tear down

[@kevinshiley9061]

It's kind of a shame. It didn't look beyond repair.

[@phild8095]

My wife and I live in a 95 year old brick home. Sometimes getting utility upgrades, like more lights in the kitchen or some plumbing done can be a real pain in the ass.

[@user-ge2qn6gp4o]

Where else are they going to put their 98th billion Starbucks?

[@Jeff-xy7fv]

Just what we need, another apartment building.

[@user-hm6nu2vr4r]

oui❤❤😊😊 oui❤❤😊😊

[@randyrichmond2036]

Going to shake up the ghosts lol

[@jonathanmoore4288]

I want that job.

[@p.m.dolgalev7393]

был домик и нет домика....

[@marquesjosiasmarques225]

Não seria bom retirar as janelas portas para depois demolir muita coisa se aproveitavam

[@brucemartini2288]

Now IF they had grabbing tools like this, scaled up for thick concrete structures. Not that i want the demolition sped up at all, i like the LONG videos😊,

[@lohphat]

Everything has a lifespan. Wood only lasts so long and if it was too far gone, it's just not worth saving. Houses don't have memories -- people do. If the place is unable to host new people, there's no point in maintaining it. Not every home is a museum piece. With that said, modern construction is boring and not made to last. We need to do better.

[@jddr.jkindle9708]

At 02:10. noticed leaking Freon...

[@JohnZWetmore]

I don't think it was. Here is an example that is definitely Freon: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWHLg2yLlrKpj7c

[@hudsonrobert49]

well if it was haunted it isn't anymore

[@dannypalmer7701]

Just crunch and smash it down and stop messing whith little boards.

[@timwolters2614]

So sad

[@Rainbow__cookie]

😞