House Demolition 6, Arlington Road

[@Sohave]

Nice house, looked mint before the demolition. Here In Denmark we have to take the glass out before so it can be recycled.

[@Sohave]

@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!

[@CB-hp1zn]

Its a covid-19 house , cant rent it out, to deadly, insurance companies, condemned it..

[@jonathaneastwood2927]

What ! ​@@CB-hp1zn

[@vanillagorilla4327]

This honestly looks like the funnest job ever

[@dumdum7786]

Well this part at least, remember they gotta clean up after

[@nathanm8792]

Not really

[@artiedelimitros9443]

@@dumdum7786 sub it out!

[@kendym6060]

I want to do this job

[@yournemisis8078]

"Hell No Larry I said Arlington STREET!"

[@alexmartinez-vc1vh]

Actually it's Arlington Road dumbass

[@ventilate4267]

and another good joke ruined

[@thedieseltruck8303]

😂😂

[@johnfoltz8183]

Beautiful old home demolished for a cheaply built sawdust and cardboard apartment building that looks like it's an architectural nightmare.

[@jgallardo7344]

And that’s why redevelopment was necessary

[@chrisworster4878]

Yeah, they tear down nice old homes, and build an apartment building that they can charge 1 m for "luxury" condos

[@leDespicable]

@@chrisworster4878 Just curious, do we know anything about the condition those homes were in?

[@josiejames4989]

That a Good one

[@LiftEnthusiast2020OFFTOPIC]

ToyotaSupraFan1234 They do the Starks Building is a fine bit of us architecture

[@fieldaj2011]

3:30 thats the scene where Cleveland Brown's bathtub should slide out

[@Silverhornet81]

NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[@quezgang]

That would have been funny

[@RiverValleyAcres]

Dude I’m dying 😂

[@carlspackler91]

I CAN'T FEEL MY LEGS! WELCOME TO THE CLUB PAL! OH there they are. AWWWWWW!

[@TheBoczk26]

That was a newer home, it had engineered floor joists in it... probably was built less then 15-20 years ago

[@MrLuka10]

It was probably remodeled. But just the style and how you see a third floor with a balcony it’s an old home. It was beautiful.

[@cantcomeupwithausern]

exactly what I thought too! But that house design is really old...so i dunno

[@richnolan8123]

@@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....

[@fnhwk]

​@richnolan8123 yeah it doesn't sound that way my friend

[@thegraphicw]

It definitely is newer. You can see the cheap engineered trusses made of two 2x4s with OSB joiner in the middle. The wall studs were definitely not true 2x4 and it was deck framed rather than balloon framed. Cheap construction designed to mimic classic construction. It definitely went down much easier than the old construction does.

[@andyhughes5885]

This looks like it would have been a really nice place to live in.

[@JMH702]

Yep

[@ronniehicks4972]

It looks like all it needed was tlc

[@Eschatonx]

@@ronniehicks4972 could have had foundational issues or internal damage. Sometimes it's better to just start from scratch

[@ronniehicks4972]

Are you trying to say that yall are gonna start from scratch

[@ronniehicks4972]

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

[@Crimson-Collective]

this game has the best demolition physics ive ever seen! my little brother 2019/2020

[@errorusernamenotfound9775]

Enderboss 2019 lol

[@gremlin4163]

Lol!

[@RayPlayable]

Imagine being out shopping for 20 mins and by the time u get home, someone that hates u that owns an excavator could have pulled down your house 😂😂

[@boostedperformance7762]

Lol 😂

[@davidhamann1300]

such a waste. Habitat for Humanity would have loved those windows, doors, and cabinets.

[@BlakeAudibert]

What a shame. it took them 24 minutes to take down a perfectly good home that took months to build......

[@geo752]

Why has the building not been stripped of the recyclable stuff before demolition

[@zbudda]

@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.

[@kristendithomas3522]

America land of greed and waste.

[@davidca96]

that stuff gets taken out later, it does get recycled (metal piping and wiring) but the wood and glass and other material isnt recycled much.

[@chrisworster4878]

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

[@michaels5647]

It’s cost more to recycle

[@frankyfrankson2564]

Looked like a pretty nice house on the outside

[@DavidMiller-qu2sr]

I enjoy watching your videos keep making great videos I like your videos a lot keep making great videos I like your videos keep making great videos

[@louisc.gasper7588]

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.

[@magolord2820]

It's always a bit sad thinking that someone lived there and probably had a ton of memory of it just to at the end being completely destroyed

[@cvic9842]

in the end nothing last forever, the house might be gone, but the memories would live on for a lifetime

[@magolord2820]

​@@cvic9842 You're right, that's what's important in the end :)

[@AppStateBuffaloBillsWaifu]

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.

[@kenclouseau2616]

One cannot help but wonder if it really was necessary to demolish that house. Regardless.. Good video, interesting to watch.

[@kenclouseau2616]

@Bill Williams Ha ha, sure, why not leave it where it stands. ?!

[@i_love_games110]

there is a lot of reasons why they would need to demolish it that we can't see

[@i_love_games110]

just looked at the description and they were building an aparment building there

[@Ren800X]

That’s a total waste such a nice looking home that’s the society we live in throw away disgusting.

[@wreckender7]

I would live there and I'm a kid

[@zxzll2008]

They get paid to do it

[@jaibruh]

Not really but ok.

[@fannycraddock99]

Well that was interesting. Not exactly a period home! Made of cardboard & plywood, not a solid wall in the place. Gone in 25 minutes!

[@kattrakee]

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 😡

[@kattrakee]

It’s a little bit scary that machine looks like it’s real and it’s a dinosaur coming after me 😳😫🦖🦖🦕🦕🦖🦖🦖

[@graylingdrummond9421]

When the wife said you have got to find that spider. LOL.

[@realMrHudson]

What was the water hose splashing for? It was on like that for the full duration of the video

[@JohnZWetmore]

The water helps control the dust.

[@joannecowie3586]

Taking a nice warm bath and this claw comes through the roof and says "I just thought I'd grab you for a bite to eat."

[@mugwump242]

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.

[@JohnZWetmore]

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.

[@mugwump242]

@@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.

[@JohnZWetmore]

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").

[@mugwump242]

@@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.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@JohnZWetmore The brick chimney looked like the ONLY part that could have built in 1928.

[@nickruark3693]

Watching perfectly good homes in these videos being demolished is really sad. Really sad.

[@makincash3337]

I agree

[@bobmiller970]

I don’t understand that ether

[@HardHatExotics]

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!

[@imthatextrakid8292]

I remember when the school demolished an old building. It was so much fun watching the glass shatter.

[@kendym6060]

I LOVE being there when they're tearing something down

[@official_20k_f3arless2]

Why did they only use on excavator at least use 2 and that is not a house that is an apartment

[@RazzRubino]

Does this video got that from The Willoughbys?

[@kennethmccann6402]

What happen to "This Old House" show and it's could have this house restored.

[@therealkidconomist2681]

2:17 he is just smashing that door like the kool aid man lol

[@jameswest8280]

Forman, "STOP! STOP! the address is 3419 not 3417!

[@MyResponseWouldBe]

Imagine coming back from outta town to this and all you wanted was a new roof windows and new steps City:o shit we fucked up continue on

[@byronkelly4374]

just take an ef5 tornado to it the process will be done in under 10 seconds

[@citation51power]

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.

[@ShellymanStudios]

Lmaooo it would damage the whole neighborhood.

[@forgoatusbm5674]

Yeah, but tornadoes are the only thing less reliable than contractors! J/k

[@hudsonrobert49]

it would be nice to see inside the houses before they pull them down

[@Gizmologist1]

What is the cross street on Arlington Road? To my recollection, there were no 3 story homes on Arlington Road unless it was built in the late seventies. I walked Arlington rd every day going to school from Bradley Blvd to Old Georgetown Road.

[@JohnZWetmore]

It was at the corner of Arlington and Moorland. It was built around 1928. It wasn't a full 3 stories, just 2 stories and a dormer. The rest of the houses on the block were a simple 2 stories or 1 story and a dormer. Here is Google Street View: www.google.com/maps/@38.9859269,-77.0987394,3a,75y,108.95h,98.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYAFXfGvU0BhDsz4bh4p8Lw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[@JohnZWetmore]

On closer inspection, the house contained modern building materials. Perhaps the old house was rebuilt larger in the 1980s.

[@peterbittman3170]

3rd floor was added

[@thetechexpert4887]

This is also a common house demolition in Europe. They demolished a few houses on Ogrizović street in Zagreb, Croatia.

[@rodenthideout]

Probably making what I call Human Ant Hills (condo's)

[@chichiboy8219]

When you can’t find the remote

[@graylingdrummond9421]

No, you saw a snake in the house and wondered where did it go lol lol.

[@thesusboomerroblox6516]

@@graylingdrummond9421 snakes are fine

[@thesusboomerroblox6516]

@@graylingdrummond9421 more like large spider you looked away from from 1 second

[@isaiahvlogs9763]

Why do they have to spray water while they demolish it?

[@JohnZWetmore]

The water helps keep the dust down.

[@isaiahvlogs9763]

John Z Wetmore ohh ok

[@Yeptonight]

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.

[@evanpenny348]

Interesting, but is there any reason the contractor is working SO SLOW?

[@noryod]

I'm guessing for safety of active road and sidewalk behind the house

[@kshitijpratapsingh9855]

Why they are watering the house.?

[@billbowers268]

Keep dust down probably.

[@kshitijpratapsingh9855]

Yeah

[@zouheir70]

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 .

[@enriquelopez9124]

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.

[@ivanbagual]

Can u put a speedier guy on machine.... its driving me crazy aff

[@diannelogsdon6107]

Ivan Cristovao Might be a new guy, learning.

[@ivanbagual]

@@diannelogsdon6107 u are slow too. A few weeks to answer kkkk

[@aditinigam3989]

Increase the play speed at 2X

[@ivanbagual]

@@aditinigam3989 4x

[@waxedtaters]

That house wasn't as old as it looked, note all of the modern day construction techniques used in it.

[@jgizzy]

Oh, so that's why it went down like toothpicks held together with rice glue?

[@voxane]

wow, these are some pretty realistic physics. what game?

[@saliyounis8408]

Are you sure this is the house?

[@Kaczorek2366]

But the house. All practically wooden. What will be here or is it already there?

[@ngtflyer]

As in the description, being torn down to make way for a new apartment building.

[@Kaczorek2366]

@@ngtflyer As if it were going to pass a hurricane it wouldn't be what to collect.

[@johnfellows2867]

Why was this house destroyed ??

[@JohnZWetmore]

They took down several houses to make space for a large apartment building. (It is two blocks from the Bethesda subway stop.)

[@davidglaum2538]

John Z Wetmore So very nice houses are knocked down to put up an ugly apartment building so some person can make a lot of money.

[@JohnZWetmore]

@@davidglaum2538 I haven't seen the architectural drawings, so I don't know how pretty or ugly the apartment building will be. It will provide homes for 235 families. We also have very nice houses being knocked down so some person can put up a McMansion for one family, as is the case with this other house: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioqbaa2lYqaZpbs

[@davidglaum2538]

John Z Wetmore It all comes down to one thing. Money talks and not much else matters.😩😼😱

[@JohnZWetmore]

The same thing happened when farmland was bulldozed to put up the house several decades ago.

[@CosmicOrangeCat]

Why do they spray the side of the house with water?

[@JohnZWetmore]

The water is to help control dust.

[@CosmicOrangeCat]

@@JohnZWetmore oh that makes sense!

[@quezgang]

Y they always start from the back of the house

[@JohnZWetmore]

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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioqbaa2lYqaZpbs

[@bobbg9041]

13:59. Is it too late to get my car out of the garage?

[@Caleb_Mandrake872]

One garden hose to keep the dust down?

[@kenclouseau2616]

These excavators are so impressively powerful.

[@alangreen1525]

Never finished the job as usual on videos

[@spencerm8340]

why do they spray the house w water?

[@JohnZWetmore]

The water helps to keep the dust down.

[@TheWhiteSanatarium]

The boy in me loves watching this, the other side of me is wondering why did they not salvage the doors and windows.

[@Im_With_Stupid]

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.

[@tronus8586]

Disney’s ‘Up’: Alternate Ending Scene

[@dakotawilson4116]

what the water for??

[@x8..231]

Where is this one located?

[@JohnZWetmore]

At the corner of Arlington and Moorland in Bethesda, MD. www.google.com/maps/@38.9859269,-77.0987394,3a,75y,108.95h,98.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYAFXfGvU0BhDsz4bh4p8Lw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[@enriquelopez9124]

Even if it had water damage like sometimes might happen that is understandable, cause who knows how safe is the structure to rebuild.

[@rubensanchez1797]

gee, beautiful house was destroyed.such as waste of money....

[@freeform33]

Just greed

[@kendym6060]

I wonder how they clean these big machines

[@gangshit17]

Imagine somebody walking out on the balcony jus to fall, break some shit, and realize they jus took their porch...

[@thundyundez]

Imagine ur living ur normal life, bout to get a bowl of cereal in the morning till u see this.

[@michaeln.8401]

What’s with the hose

[@JohnZWetmore]

Watering down the debris reduces the amount of dust.

[@jamesheal4535]

Why are they spraying it with water?

[@jameswest8280]

To reduce dust.

[@peterbittman3170]

Dust

[@fanmaxis3004]

Why are they tearing it down?

[@AVeryRandomPerson]

Read the description. It was torn down to build an apartment building.

[@rodemarieaguirre8884]

That was sad to watch...a hone that big with family history of many owners maybe....replaced by space...goodbye past dream....you stood well..

[@andreauberti8518]

This is because not use a dinamike : 1 is not safe 2 the people scaring 3an excavator is more efficent for the remains of building.

[@kshitijpratapsingh9855]

The machine was looking like an cute animal who was playing.

[@andreauberti8518]

The animal is a CAT 😂

[@psycho9539]

what did this old house do to you this is a shame

[@bruceg.6282]

why demo this house?

[@IVANSALAS1912]

In Argentina these old windows is so expensive...

[@linx4355]

Why spray water?

[@JohnZWetmore]

The water helps keep the dust under control.

[@scrapman502]

Wait, I can still fix it... No. Maybe not now.

[@Birdsfly11]

He said his wife's not getting the house!

[@hahahafiy]

R.i.p happy house 1992-2018

[@ubme21]

Just imagine if that was the wrong house

[@enzoperruccio]

24 minute video? Let's make it 12 minutes; 2x speed here I go!

[@ryancoorey158]

Bob vila: let me show you how to fix that.

[@wendybachar9673]

Excavator: THIS IS MY HOUSE NOW HAHAHHAHAHAH People:we thought you live in the construction site

[@atad]

That was an old house!

[@davidhamann1300]

no, look again. modern I-beam floor joists, engineered roof trusses, OSB.

[@TheBoczk26]

New house less then 20 years old

[@craniostomy]

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.

[@ayeitzcj]

INFINITEchallenger 4 you learned that from ice

[@kevinzettler2076]

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 .

[@thephdiogene4718]

C'est un véritable crime que d'avoir détruit une si belle maison !!!

[@retiredinbali9565]

If I was anywhere near this I would be wearing a respirator due to the high likelihood of asbestos.

[@fisichellaable]

Quelle belle maison c’est dommage !

[@americancitizen748]

Sad...

[@joelethalcruz4417]

All the hard work...all the trades..put in one day...in building that house...gone...just like that.

[@connorbullough3349]

When there's a spider in your room

[@evanpatterson6998]

Why is that guy wasting all that water?

[@idkidk-rk6sd]

To prevent dust i think

[@thflash09msr]

Evan Patterson it’s to prevent dust and most importantly to prevent anything from catching fire.

[@brookbidois7770]

When pc players find out there house is pre built:

[@robertaverill936]

WHY?!

[@cvollot2769]

Primitive mode of demolition😂. As You can see the excavator is not adapted to this job, too close from the house from time to time. And What about recycling here? Anything

[@lilaj34siren]

So that’s where my house went...

[@مكافحلعبهببجي]

water ????

[@JohnZWetmore]

Water helps to keep the dust down.

[@nickbeam5432]

After all this and you still didn't find your truck keys.🤔🙄😫

[@davidgray9744]

i'd never own a house in America all they are is wooden shacks, cant you afford bricks

[@fionasmith8350]

Looked Like A Nice House