Demolition of a house (Part 2)

A house built in 1890 is being meticulously reduced to a pile of match sticks. This unfortunate house, uninhabited for over a year, was in a wretched state of disrepair, beyond hope of restoration. In its place will be a classically styled new house and re-landscaped property.

Part 1 shows demolition of the wing (lacking a basement); Part 2 shows demolition of the main house. The entire process took three hours.

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• demolition
• demolish
• house
• 1890
• old
• excavator
• disrepair
• destroy

[6969Wolf6969]

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.

[trainiax]

@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.

[6969Wolf6969]

@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.

[trainiax]

@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.

[6969Wolf6969]

@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?

[trainiax]

@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.

[canadiancatgreen]

It is sad it was no restorable. it was a great looking house or a least it appeared to be

[theringfilm1]

i would love to have this job!

[6969Wolf6969]

@uneasylisa how could you wreck the house you were raised in?  is it gone now?

[4realestateleads]

How much did it cost to remove all that debris after you tore it down?