why did you have to wreck it? that is a really cool house and you just destroyed it for no reason. what is the world coming too. That was a beautiful old house and now it's gone, just so you could make a video on youtube.
You have no clue what that house was like. It was a structurally rotten, wasp-infested, severely settled house with a dirt basement, no septic system, a moss-covered roof and no redeeming architectural features whatsoever. It was poorly located on the lot, it was the eyesore of the town and it was not fit for living in (nobody had been in it for several years). That location is now the front yard of a new house classically styled to match the rest of the houses on the road.
@trainiax it was a beautiful old house, worthy of restoration. over one hundred years old. why did you have to come along with tht big old excavator and trash the old place.
In no way, shape or form was it worthy of restoration. To restore the house so that it would even be safe to live in (let alone a nice place to live) would have meant rebuilding it from the ground up. That's essentially what happened, since the house that replaced it has the same classical lines but a sound structure and legal water, septic and electrical systems.
@trainiax shame on you for bulldozing the 1890s original. what a pity that you couldn't see any value in a house over 100 years old, and you had to bring in that big yellow machine to destroy in a day what had been there for over a century.
don't you value our past in any way? it was a great old house, and you showed your gratitude by sending it to the landfill.
did you at least keep anything from the old house, or was it all trashed, my friend?
@6969Wolf6969 Four corner trim pieces, fuel oil and copper wiring was kept from the house. There was nothing else worth keeping. I think this discussion has gone on long enough.
The house I was raised in is slated for demolition in April 2008, and I don't want to be around to see it happen. It was a lovely 1903 house in very good shape that was expropriated for a highway project--which is why my family had to move in the first place.
The house in the video, however, was on a property that my family had purchased in 2007. It was in extremely bad shape and had a strange floorplan--nobody was sorry to see it go. A new house was constructed 1 month later (November 2007)
I'm strongly against expropriation/eminent domain/whatever it's called. It's okay to demolish unsafe houses, but a lovely 1903 house? I feel for you.
Stupid government thieves. If someone tried to expropriate the house I live in (built in 2000, so it's not necessarily a classic) I'd fight. And market value for the house..Nothing can replace the emotional loss that those f***ers are making you go through right now.
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I still have dreams about the house I grew up in even though I haven't been inside there since 1994. Damn government. >:(
Did you not read the description? Clapboard overlapping from the slanting floors, wasp nests in the eaves, plaster falling off the walls, sewage draining directly into the field next to the neighbour, kitchen sink draining into basement, porch posts sunk into the deck, mossy roof, furnace pipe built through the middle of the living room, floor joists with dry rot, a broken window stuffed with fiberglass insulation... I'm against tearing down old houses, but there's a limit!
It is sad it was no restorable. it was a great looking house or a least it appeared to be
canadiancatgreen 1 year ago
i would love to have this job!
theringfilm1 1 year ago
@uneasylisa how could you wreck the house you were raised in? is it gone now?
6969Wolf6969 1 year ago
why did you have to wreck it? that is a really cool house and you just destroyed it for no reason. what is the world coming too. That was a beautiful old house and now it's gone, just so you could make a video on youtube.
6969Wolf6969 1 year ago
@6969Wolf6969
You have no clue what that house was like. It was a structurally rotten, wasp-infested, severely settled house with a dirt basement, no septic system, a moss-covered roof and no redeeming architectural features whatsoever. It was poorly located on the lot, it was the eyesore of the town and it was not fit for living in (nobody had been in it for several years). That location is now the front yard of a new house classically styled to match the rest of the houses on the road.
trainiax 1 year ago
@trainiax it was a beautiful old house, worthy of restoration. over one hundred years old. why did you have to come along with tht big old excavator and trash the old place.
6969Wolf6969 1 year ago
@6969Wolf6969
In no way, shape or form was it worthy of restoration. To restore the house so that it would even be safe to live in (let alone a nice place to live) would have meant rebuilding it from the ground up. That's essentially what happened, since the house that replaced it has the same classical lines but a sound structure and legal water, septic and electrical systems.
trainiax 1 year ago
@trainiax shame on you for bulldozing the 1890s original. what a pity that you couldn't see any value in a house over 100 years old, and you had to bring in that big yellow machine to destroy in a day what had been there for over a century.
don't you value our past in any way? it was a great old house, and you showed your gratitude by sending it to the landfill.
did you at least keep anything from the old house, or was it all trashed, my friend?
6969Wolf6969 1 year ago
@6969Wolf6969 Four corner trim pieces, fuel oil and copper wiring was kept from the house. There was nothing else worth keeping. I think this discussion has gone on long enough.
trainiax 1 year ago
How much did it cost to remove all that debris after you tore it down?
4realestateleads 2 years ago
The house I was raised in is slated for demolition in April 2008, and I don't want to be around to see it happen. It was a lovely 1903 house in very good shape that was expropriated for a highway project--which is why my family had to move in the first place.
The house in the video, however, was on a property that my family had purchased in 2007. It was in extremely bad shape and had a strange floorplan--nobody was sorry to see it go. A new house was constructed 1 month later (November 2007)
trainiax 4 years ago
I'm strongly against expropriation/eminent domain/whatever it's called. It's okay to demolish unsafe houses, but a lovely 1903 house? I feel for you.
Stupid government thieves. If someone tried to expropriate the house I live in (built in 2000, so it's not necessarily a classic) I'd fight. And market value for the house..Nothing can replace the emotional loss that those f***ers are making you go through right now.
whattheheck1000 4 years ago
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I still have dreams about the house I grew up in even though I haven't been inside there since 1994. Damn government. >:(
blinkingblythe 3 years ago
Stupid, always the case, tear down the old stuff thats been here forever.
Thats ok, someone 90 years from now will do that to your new house. LOL
PianoHead26 4 years ago
Did you not read the description? Clapboard overlapping from the slanting floors, wasp nests in the eaves, plaster falling off the walls, sewage draining directly into the field next to the neighbour, kitchen sink draining into basement, porch posts sunk into the deck, mossy roof, furnace pipe built through the middle of the living room, floor joists with dry rot, a broken window stuffed with fiberglass insulation... I'm against tearing down old houses, but there's a limit!
trainiax 4 years ago
Weird! The pipe was going *through* the living room, smack in the middle, vertically? O_O
blinkingblythe 3 years ago
I have great confidence in Alouette and can't wait until the new house is there.
trainiax 4 years ago