Neighbor's house being demolished

[@wolfiewolfification]

I like the dude who is wrecking the fence by hand. He looks pretty energetic!!

[@paulthesoundguy1]

Hello, this was MY house, I had it torn down to build another house, More beautiful and spacious. AND this is America, I can do what I want with my property!

[@nickbeam5432]

Paul : Totally Agree.

[@k.c.beagle7102]

Good for you and yes ,you damn right !

[@mrpaulgrimm6129]

Nice neighborhood

[@smldemolition]

As a demolition contractor myself, I can tell you that deconstructing a home and demolishing it are two totally different beasts with two drastically different price tags. YES, there may be a lot of wasted material but there may not be. Sometimes what you can't see is rotted out floors and walls, mold and mildew, termite damage etc. Now, say you wanted to salvage all the wood and materials for reuse. As a for instance, to demolish the entire home may only cost the homeowner $8,000 and a few days. To deconstruct the same home, may run close to $20,000. It's more labor intensive and if you're a small company, you don't always have the ability to sit on one job for weeks. You have other jobs you need to get to. Another thing is, the home owner may not have $20,000 to give out for deconstructing it. Another factor no one outside the industry will know is that it costs substantially more to recycle all the materials. Recycling companies will charge a fee for each different material (At least here in Texas where I'm from.) It's not always financially feasible to salvage everything. I've torn down homes where I was thinking "we could save this or that", but ultimately it comes down to how much is the customer willing to spend. I bid a job to recycle carpet and acoustical ceiling tiles once. They wanted close to $1,500 for the carpet and over $2,000 for the ceiling tiles. Nevermind the rest of the debris...thats $3,500 just for two items. The cost to throw the carpet in the landfill was around $300 and the ceiling tile about $400. So that's why you can't save everything on a home. Some of it is wasted, but realistically its not financially feasible for most to pay the cost to "reverse build" the home.

[@ArchieWhitehill]

Thank you! Your professional slant on this was interesting and informative. I appreciate your comment.

[@Opinionatedguy1989]

they should have hosed down the house as the operator was wrecking it. that's way too much dust. in my neck of the woods we get fined for that.

[@wolfiewolfification]

@@davidg6665 how bad do they underbid? And who is the operator?

[@jimewen19681]

That dude at the beginning, lol. He went to pull that pole and fell backwards. Lucky for him the other post kept him from falling flat on his arse! Lmfao!

[@Icureditwithmybrain]

LOL

[@FrankTech]

hopefully the neighbors had their windows shut... imagine coming home from work and seeing dust everywhere because somebody couldnt run a hose...

[@TheWheels1965]

I hope someone checked the inside the roof for cash and guns!

[@wolfiewolfification]

and why isn't that bro tearing down the fence wearing a hard hat?

[@stephaniekelly4384]

That truck had so many attempts to get finally to collect the rubbish

[@jonathandeatherage9271]

Hey, if that truck comes back, BLAST IT!!

[@chevy266nova]

If this house could talk. I wonder what stories it could tell about the families that have lived there.The birth of the home and it's death. The first wife to walk into it, And the first baby to come home to it.

[@ArchieWhitehill]

I'm sure that would be a fascinating story. Thank you for the comment.

[@manuelmartin8890]

They have a meeting just to make sure it's the correct house

[@RAREFORMDESIGNS]

That guy in the in the yellow machine is a homewrecker.

[@hudsonrobert49]

who else is here looking for comments about the guy knocking down the fence lol.

[@ArchieWhitehill]

It had to go. A new house was waiting to be built on that lot.

[@shayengineer10]

Ah guys......the address we want is at 315 West Second St. We're at 315 East Second St. "SHIT"

[@brucemartini2288]

Looks like Wilsons and Mitchell's houses from "Dennis the Menace

[@mrpaulgrimm6129]

What state is this?

[@j.txx.7968]

how much money did they just make doing that?

[@ikemike2823]

Here they knock 1 home down & build 2......hopefully they won't do that!

[@ArchieWhitehill]

They didn't. Just built one, but it is two-story and much nicer than the old one.

[@robbyel3958]

Here they knock one home down, leave one wall in place, build an oversized monstrosity and call it a "renovation".

[@davidpiotrowski7906]

WERE IS THE WATER HOSE TO KNOCK DOWN THE DUST ,OR DOES THAT COAST TOO MUCH??

[@Vincent98987]

Get a dictionary

[@equipment-enthusiast]

Not exactly sure why the dump trailer is there so early unless they didn't have anything else for him to do. Me personally I like to go through and tear the whole house down and drop back and break it down into smaller pieces and you can get more on a trailer that way.

[@ResidentialDirtWork]

Same here..

[@brianbrantaly1513]

WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THE HOUSE ?

[@hiramfleming7607]

Gospel music

[@ArchieWhitehill]

Needed a lot of costly structural repairs,

[@johnturner4400]

brian brantaly. It was shit?

[@martinjeffery3590]

Truck driver is a bit restless

[@brianbrantaly1513]

WHAT IN THE HELL IS THE STICK FOR, A MARKER !

[@crackerjack30132]

marked the water meter.

[@lewisner]

Problems in what sense ? Bad neighbour or structural problems ?

[@ArchieWhitehill]

Structural; the owner died and a few contractors came out to look at it while it was for sale. Then the for sale sign came down and the destruction crew arrived.

[@ArchieWhitehill]

Structural problems as a result of the combination of age and poor maintenance.

[@dondesnoo1771]

She went shopping came back couldn't find the house was sure she had the right spot?? .😎

[@ArchieWhitehill]

That would be funny, to all but her!

[@greyeaglem]

Looked to be in good shape to me, from what I could see. The roof, paint etc. looked good.

[@jonathandeatherage9271]

Take the joint, but please, please a serbian LEAVE THE LOVELY FENCE!!!

[@doedoebirds1]

He backed up that truck so many times , he should know how to drive by now...

[@corvusduluth]

Destroy affordable housing stock. No one knows what the 'problems' were. Not even you Archie, you only know what you 'heard'/were 'told'. Across the ally from my residence an old occupied house was deemed 'unfit', the owner forced to move. The structure demolished. The City built a new house which has been vacant/unoccupied for 3 years. Property taxes to County now paid by the City, not the person who had been living there happily.

[@kenbrewsaugh2473]

Load the phucking truck!! You can tear it down while he is making a run!!!

[@delboytrotter8806]

Out of focus dude........get closer.

[@mackhopper]

What a waste

[@stephenwhite6437]

thak you the did jues but good god to did hop and bee but is we was how now thak for

[@pilierofq]

?????

[@pilierofq]

Because de car was blue god told the fence to spray a cat 4 not od that was good he said and all was red or read or something howie?

[@dallasman9892]

I was thinking that, but you said it better.

[@k.c.beagle7102]

Hurry, hurry send more trucks. We need more trucks, fast!!!!

[@eddewillis3730]

wow

[@arnaldovinagre4350]

so boring.....

[@ArchieWhitehill]

Sorry! I found it interesting.

[@toleyik5401]

Archie: It is! Thanks for sharing!

[@paulthesoundguy1]

HELLO it’s a house demo, not a play boy pictorial.....DUH

[@jamescampbell7780]

The truck driver's impatience results in blocking the public footpath causing possible danger to pedestrians! Cowboy outfit.

[@shayengineer10]

Like there are any pedestrians there anyway!

[@thenussbaum44]

You shouldn't be walking down the sidewalk anyways when a house is being taken down, it wouldn't be my first concern.

[@vsvnrg3263]

james campbell, don't blame the truck driver, blame the boss of the job. the boss always orders the truck/s before the house is down and crunched and munched ready for easy compact truck loading, and the block is prepared for the truck to fit in, preferably on the driveway and/or space beside the house. i'm speaking from personal experience. the truck can't risk breaking up the footpath or the kerb if it doesn't have to drive over them.

[@Einsatzkommando]

What about common sense?