House Demolition, Woodmont Avenue

[@rameshshankar1010]

Heart bleeds seeing such beautiful structure being brought down

[@fnhwk]

It's nothing special

[@trr5291]

Destroying beautiful old homes to build crappy apartment buildings.

[@pauloconnor2980]

As Ned Kelly said :Such is life.

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

Let's say you own that property and the house is worth $250,000. Without even considering maintenance and allowing for a $2000.00 a month rental fee, in two months after the new construction, the owner is already making money and with the more valuable property he now has, he can leverage other projects.

[@PorkPieNews]

​@topixfromthetropix1674 why not sell the house cheap and have them move it? At least give someone the opportunity.

[@trr5291]

​@PorkPieNews This is the disposable society we live in, unfortunately.

[@mathias6528]

great video. however i tend to agree with the others who commented. what a waste of a beautiful house, and for an apartment building? a shame!

[@MIGASHOORAY]

Its all about the money ,my present wife a philippina is going for my house I paid for JUST PURE GREED. 1 house = a few town houses..

[@jgallardo7344]

It’s not helpful to anyone when that one house is unaffordable

[@randomdudev237]

At the end of the day, there getting payed

[@paulthesoundguy1]

Progress......it’s has been this way since the romans and the Greeks BUILD NEW COVER UP OLD.......STOP WHINING.....ITS ALSO THE AMERICAN WAY

[@joemcconnell2674]

Probably tore it down! To build the same high rise luxury apartments around the old house. Them apartments around the house look like they have just been built.

[@sebfannumber1]

I've been a "sidewalk superintendent" all my life and these are the best demolition videos I have ever seen! More please!!!

[@barrysmith4588]

20 mins in: "ok boss, thats 71 woodmont flattened" boss: " i said 21 woodmont"

[@culle6522]

:-)))))) yeah babe

[@AlexschnuckY]

Wie kann man nur so ein wunderschönes Haus einfach platt machen!? Unfassbar!!! Andere hätten sich gefreut, in so einem schönen Haus wohnen zu dürfen.

[@dragonvalo]

this is the reason the uk is running out of family houses, just like in the us we have demolished wonderful homes and apartment buildings and replaced them with shoe boxe houses and death trap high rises.

[@b21playa]

It’s amazing that nothing is recycled beforehand. The slates looked like new

[@daviddowling9830]

b21playa recycling in this case is just not cost effective,sadly.

[@billbowers268]

Beautiful home ! What a waste to tear it down

[@wolfiewolfification]

Love how he pushes the last part at 17:30. that is killer. great operator by the way

[@786otto]

It was a nice house.Slate roof was worth a fortune and would outlast those new buildings.

[@paulkelly1702]

Wonderful skills of the Operator Engineer and the power of the machines. Poetry in motion. Sorry to see the house go too.

[@troynichols4878]

That was a beautiful brick house

[@TheSwords99]

Stop tearing down beautiful older homes!!!

[@curtyanok6878]

It's disgusting to see this. I'm not too well off and could use a nice home to live in for a decent price instead of tearing it down. GRRRRR!!!!

[@zone47]

I saw a homeless guy at the end of the expressway today, I'll bet he would have liked that place. What could have been so wrong with that house that they had to tear it down? You can't get a real brick house anymore, everything is cheap veneer. Apartments ... it's all about the money.

[@nancyweliczko9334]

So sad that a beautiful home was destroyed to make room for apartments or a parking lot.

[@nancyp7301]

Apartments, look at the description.

[@nancyweliczko9334]

@@nancyp7301 I said apartments and with apartments parking lots usually follows.

[@JohnZWetmore]

@@nancyweliczko9334 Parking will be underground. Land in this area is too valuable for surface parking.

[@mickbaker2483]

Some one go tell the Hitachi driver he's just ripped down the wrong house.

[@kendalkenny1843]

A nice home huh..

[@jonnyteeee]

Best Demo Driver ever!!! He got the job Done!!!!! No messing about here!!

[@agentx7138]

No strip out? Wiring wood tiles the hobo in the back room?

[@avtpro]

The curtains still on the windows?

[@odivarela9147]

Damn couldn’t they have tried to salvage the windows and brick for repurposing what a waist of material SMH 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@MichSignMan]

Get your pickup... Let's go pick up some bricks for our home ;)

[@nancyp7301]

They are old wood windows. Salvaging brick is very expensive.

[@melcofrans]

Here in the netherlands the windows get removed all the wood is taken out sometimes the roof is dismantled and then the concrete and bricks are broken down they remove all the isolation and other junk in a big machine and the bricks and concrete is used as gravel so it can be done

[@ctiley2212]

@@melcofrans that's too intelligent for Americans, they only know how to destroy.

[@dallas3124]

In Scotland we would remove the slate from the roof before demolition

[@1chish]

No recycling, no dust prevention....

[@genedameier8746]

Beautiful House gone replaced by an Ugly Apartment Building.

[@johnfoltz8183]

Cheap cardboard and sawdust apartments that looks like a faux pas town center thing.

[@nancyp7301]

Its called supply and demand.

[@dean-gm1lg]

It's called greed and keep demolishing perfectly good buildings is not only a waste of money it's also bad for the environment

[@nancyp7301]

@@dean-gm1lg Supply and demand. I am not a commie. Its a free market economy.

[@BRI33NOR]

What no water spray to keep dust down ?

[@Mrfort]

Did see a couple of hoses?

[@JohnZWetmore]

There was no water hose on this job. So there was a lot of dust.

[@pauloconnor2980]

I love that bit @ 17:22. This guy really knows his trade.

[@kendalkenny1843]

Damn that was a nice home.

[@culle6522]

oh no this is a biutiful house !!!! my heart cry !!!

[@alanspagnolia9474]

Totally satisfying !!

[@milehighkit4725]

Dust mitigation?

[@cesarzarate6843]

Its amazing how you pay thousands of dollars for your house for many years and its destroyed in hours

[@Im__A__Fan]

17:18 What you came for

[@adrianoleuzzi2217]

Bravi! Ottimo lavoro. Ora occorre separare bene i materiali di risulta e smaltirli adeguatamente.

[@tedbryer2512]

God-- Im glad I live in the country! What a waste! I could never live like a rat in a cage like that! This was really heartbreaking to watch!

[@kendalkenny1843]

I agree 10 times better then my home...but I wouldn't change being in the country...

[@milleb17020]

The x-wife got the house in divorce settlement. But I got the property, so I shipped the house to her. Assembly video included, just play in reverse. Did I mention she got the car also.... Part2 coming soon..

[@yraay]

How bout those operator skills! I especially liked the end when he grabbed the roll-off dumpster and pulled it over a little bit. We're not quite done yet!

[@yraay]

That driver with the skills isn't necessarily a man...I'm learning and hopefully teaching at the same time!

[@chrismoyler]

When I was a child, in the 50's, much of the materials in a house were reused

[@youngillinoisan4270]

Chris Moyler I wish it was still like that, but now all they build with is plywood, such a shame.

[@peon9282]

In Europe (especially Germany, Switzerland), they usually remove all interior, asbestos, wood, windows, isolations on the outside and sometimes even the whole roof and wooden ceilings before the excavator starts. So only Concrete and Bricks are left, and there‘s still enough to pick out the debris (bits of wood, rebar and metal). Demolition technique in the US is lacking far behind, it already starts with the excavators not having a full hydraulic quick coupler (oilquick)

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@peon9282 This building was not brick/block/concrete though. It was timber frame with brick cladding so a different technique needed. It may have been possible to separate some of the brick by peeling it off first, but the US way seems to be to smash the while lot and segregate materials later. Either that or landfill!

[@davidbutterworth5258]

What an utter waste of an attractive house.

[@joedefloat7802]

No separation of materials on that job .

[@TheRealLink]

Sorry to see such a well built, sturdy house go, but as is typical in city centers and as others said, yeah probably more valuable to put an apartment building there.

[@zombiegirlfanter5569]

Thats cool at the end.he was like screw it.knock the whole side down.lol

[@lachlanslightsandfans]

Love these video keep making them

[@JohnZWetmore]

When I spot a doomed building before it has been turned into a hole in the ground, I'll video it and add it to the collection.

[@lachlanslightsandfans]

Cool

[@MichSignMan]

Pitiful.... Purely Pitiful....

[@thefinecoolguy]

like imagine you go shopping for 1 hour and it takes 1 hour to tear down the house and clean it up

[@SnowDog080]

Operator knew what he is doing!

[@lamvespa1]

Makes me sick !!!

[@FFDGFDOFD]

why.......

[@rangerstormlucky9862]

The beautiful House 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭Why? I do not understand that?

[@justinhenry8745]

It's a fucking shame that they tare down beautiful homes

[@nickmad887]

thanks

[@pauloconnor2980]

is the apartment building to the right of screen also going?

[@JohnZWetmore]

No, it will be staying. It was built to the maximum allowed by local zoning.

[@chrisdecanio1055]

Amazing, isn't it? It takes many skilled craftsmen, years to build & it is gone in a matter of hours.

[@stevegray5263]

20 minutes smashing it down, 2 weeks sorting the different waste materials!

[@petesy03]

Have built brand new houses that don’t look as good as this house, WTF????

[@jeromewysocki8809]

Petesy , maybe that's the problem. This house looked too good. It therefore had to go. How dare anyone live in a good looking house? (Just being sarcastic here. 🙂).

[@joemcconnell2674]

I think the reason it got tore down! Because it looked out of place. Because if you look at the house it's surrounded by apartments! It does look out of place. They probably want the whole area with apartment blocks. So nothing looks out of place.

[@ingemarlarsson5958]

Wtf...so Nice house ..

[@jamessmith-wy8eg]

what a total waste of a good house.

[@bettyprice6316]

Oh my! Such a powerful machine.

[@peterbrown404]

Discussting waste of goods so much for the environment and savings the planet

[@lincolnlane9235]

All of that beautiful aged wood and masonry - gone.

[@jeromewysocki8809]

Lincoln Lane , and to make sure it's gone and can never be used again, it is torn apart and smashed. What amazes me is that wood this good is hard to get these days at a lumber yard. Perfectly straight lumber, such as used in this house's construction

[@BastianSteele]

That beautiful house reduced to a pile of rubble, a shame really

[@leofalco6738]

Perché ?

[@jasinere35]

slate is a valuable thing they should have took the slate off & salvaged the floorboards along with all the stud walls instead of destroying the lotI worked at a reclamation yard & its amazing how fast reclaimed wood & roof slate sells

[@jeromewysocki8809]

jason adams , especially true about reclaimed wood. Seems that you can't find good straight lumber, like the type used in this house, in a lumber yard any more.

[@lightningdemolition1964]

It might sell well but how much do you pay the demolition company to bring them in. There has to be enough money in it to make it worthwhile to reuse the material.

[@brentcompton2381]

I bet there alot of burned out house in the projects to be torn down. There's whole ares that are a street long of vacant house that are rotten down .That way they build some better place for people to live.

[@bjornbroder8205]

Das schöne Haus 😥

[@MIGASHOORAY]

My x wife sold the house we lived in for many years the new owners have 15 units on my old home now.while i,m old and almost broke..

[@milleb17020]

Hahahaha

[@jameslindley8318]

All busted up to matchwood !!! no recycling that lot

[@Poppie5160]

Why weren't the obvious Asbestos Transite Shingles on the front dormer a concern?

[@spaghetti9845]

for sale, brick house.. great neighborhood. Needs work

[@sic3569]

If you don't separate brick/concrete from garbage you will be paying some very expensive dump fees

[@nickbeam5432]

The big bad wolf huffed and puffed and blew the house down.

[@richardhancock2771]

I told you to blow the bloody doors of not to pull it down

[@lightningdemolition1964]

There are so many comments on these types of videos saying the house was perfectly good or they are just putting up cardboard apartments. If you don't have personal knowledge of these situations it doesn't make sense to put them down for their decisions to get rid of a building. I have done a lot of buildings where once you see the inside you realize the building can't be saved. Sometimes it's water damage, mold, rot or termites that make it look fine on the outside but not liveable. Or the concrete or brick foundation can be so broken up that it is not economical to fix it. People who make comments about the recycling might have a point but the contractor makes an economic decision of comparing the sales value of the used material to the huge labor cost, time, and safety factors. As far as the supposition that garbage apartments will be put up on its place that doesn't make sense. It will be replaced with a structure that will house many more people, increase density so hopefully there will be less traffic on the roads, and blend in with the rest of the neighborhood. Get rid of the past to make way for the future.

[@garfstiglz3981]

Unfortunately you’ve just made everyone’s point. It’s all about money with people who carry our demolition or buy land even if the building can be saved or repurposed.

[@josephvanderhoff6412]

WHAT A WASTE .

[@jamescampbell7780]

Skilful operator taking no prisoners!!

[@daleleibfried8648]

Looks good from the outside but there are reasons this happens. Never know what the inside is like or in the walls(rot, mold, ect) . There are many reasons this happens, right or wrong 🤔

[@JohnZWetmore]

In this case, the land was worth more than the house. It's a block from the Metro station, and they are putting up a tall apartment building like the one next to it.

[@petermcgreevy6386]

No dust suppression here

[@Tom-Lahaye]

A well built house demolished to put a cardboard apartment building in its place.

[@jeromewysocki8809]

Tom Lahaye , I guess they call that progress.

[@ingemarlarsson5958]

Shame on them do so for some one house...

[@osmannuriozmann3669]

He ripped thru that, in 1/2 hour, if he was charging h hourly rate, does that mean it’s 1/2 price for his labour?

[@1834RestorationHouse]

What a waste of a perfectly good house.

[@daviddowling9830]

Used to be a nice cozy neighborhood,that house new probably sold fo $35,000.00.Bethesda is destroyed.

[@crocheting-around-the-planet]

Just saw Will Smith running up the stairs!🤖🤣

[@owlinthewood]

😂

[@R08ERT]

The guy operating that hitachi excavator must have a buzz for knocking down That house and not recycling wood and roof slates and building bricks Most of that house can be reclaimed and reusable Shame on him

[@anthonyjames4416]

The operator is doing his job. Shame on the owner.

[@bamahama707]

Not in THIS country...

[@Nash1a]

If anyone cared, they would have left it intact in place.

[@jeromewysocki8809]

Nash1a , yes but they don't have the authority to make that decision, unfortunately.

[@JohnnyConcrete67]

Recycling? What's that...........?

[@Fuzzbrain61]

A nice old house - what a waste!

[@pf-scottied0g969]

I'm sure the local trash company appreciated them demoing the house on top of the rental trash can behind the house. Lazy workers couldn't even be bothered to pull it out to the side of the road. Not a big deal, but typical of how lazy and wasteful our society is today.

[@clementhuppe227]

le gros méchant gars a démolie ma maison !

[@BWP202]

She locked me out for the last time

[@justinhenry8745]

I don't know how many times my mom locked me out of the house when I was growing up

[@panzerdozer]

First demo video I seen with a pretty good operator....all these demo videos the operators came from McDonald's I do believe

[@michaelhaiden6718]

If I was a neighbor there I would shut it down until they got some dust control going

[@Eccoriens80]

C'est un gaspillage de détruire une aussi bonne maison ! Les ardoises du toit étaient de belle qualité. Que ne ferions nous pas pour gagner ... un peu plus d'argent ?

[@peteneal5914]

i kant get my head round this what a stunning well looked after house what a crime to do this to it this house was well built and to do this to it and it would of been worth tens of thousands its beyond me i kant understand any logic

[@triedzidono]

I get the land needed re purposing, shame we cant just pick these houses up & drop them somewhere else. WHat a lovely house. Oh, oh dear. I say lets build airships that can be hovered down and hook onto a steel frame bolted to the house, lift these gems elsewhere. Of course this would be dangerous and a bad idea and cost more than moving it brick by brick. So sad to see it go so aggressively. But also kinda cool, in a sad way.

[@ibelieveyou2066]

Rest of world:Most of that can be recycled.America:Tear it all down,quick.Recycling what does that mean?Just bury it.

[@yurim2000]

Курятник - стены толщиной 0.5 кирпича!

[@chrisworster4878]

Ah yes America, tears down beautiful houses to build an ugly ass apartment/ condo so they can charge half a million for a 2 bedroom apartment. So you all know I am American

[@TranslinkOnRoblox]

0:20 the is getting demolished

[@austinaubinoe]

The holdout house

[@jameslindley8318]

NAH !!

[@sydsyd]

Money talks!

[@ThomsonDube]

This is the ED works crocodile

[@briananderson8733]

Are you sure you got the right house? ....... Oh no it was the next house over... Oh well. Better luck next time....that would be funny!