Disassembling a small house

[grsthegreat]

We used to ride sand rails and dune buggies out in pistols beach while in college in the 1980s. State shut the dunes down to protect an endangered turtle. I went to visit it in the early 2000’s with the wife, and entire area was housing. I guess houses didn’t hurt the turtle.

 

[JbirdNC]

Sounds like a lot of work AND hassle. Not sure I could do it.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

It is done. I hate it when people post a question and disappear, so I thought I'd drop in and say the house is gone.

It took a couple of months, a few hours each day as a pandemic project. Mostly one person, sometimes two and occasionally three. Filled 10 dumpsters and paid tipping fees for 112,000 pounds of debris. Every ounce of that was carried out by hand and mostly in loads of less than 50 lbs. Once the interior was stripped we had to turn the power off and it was hand tools and a battery powered drill and saw.

We gave away all of the windows and doors and a lot of the framing lumber. Once word got out we had a regular set of guys who we'd call once we had a batch ready. With today's lumber prices it went fast.

 

[grsthegreat]

What’s a tipping fee. Never heard that term except at a restaurant

 

[old and tired]

What’s a tipping fee. Never heard that term except at a restaurant

Tipping the scales at the landfill...

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for the update. Any chance that you have some before and after pictures?

 

[aczlan]

What’s a tipping fee. Never heard that term except at a restaurant

Most landfills charge by the pound, if you use a rollof dumpster they generally charge $X for providing the dumpster and then a tipping fee based on the weight on what you put into the dumpster (as the landfill generally charges them by the pound).

Aaron Z

 

[grsthegreat]

Thanks, I never ran into that. My dump trailer is only 5x10 so never approaches the weight allowed before fees at our dump.

 

[bcp]

Prices here:
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Transaction Fee (per trip) $10.00

The Transaction Fee above will be charged in addition to the following Disposal Rates:
Rate per Ton $95.86
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That's about 5 cents per pound + $10.00

And they wonder why people dump on the roadsides.


Bruce

 

[grsthegreat]

Yeiks. In our dump no charge for 1st ton of residential crap. Commercial pays though. I have no idea of rates as mine is always residential.

 

[bcp]

Yeiks. In our dump no charge for 1st ton of residential crap. Commercial pays though. I have no idea of rates as mine is always residential.

Sure beats our $105.86 per residental ton.

Bruce

 

[BoylermanCT]

I want to see pics of the new house and view!

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Thanks for the update. Any chance that you have some before and after pictures?

Don't really have pictures. Imagine a one-bedroom bungalow built around 1927, probably from a Sears-like kit. Over the years it was added onto at least five times -- sideways, second floor, then sideways again, then dormers, then back and then back again -- until it was a four-bedroom house with attached garage and a covered porch and an apartment in the basement. Each addition was lower quality than the one before. The house had nine different roof planes, not counting the dormers. Fortunately none of the roofs were steep and the eaves all around were at first floor height so it was easy to get up on the roof and walk around on it.

 

[PILOON]

In our area, free 4 residential for most trash, small fee 4 construction but no commercial accepted.
Example is a 4 x 8 ft trailer would be $25.00
While they take white goods, all freon must be removed.
The big push is to have appliance stores swap out your old appliance.
Will not take mounted tires but OK for rims and old rubber. (hence many mounted tires dumped roadside)

 

[Robert_Actual]

This sounds epic and I love projects like this!

A few years back I built a ski-in-ski-out cabin (4,500 sqft) for a customer and had to remove an old 1,000 sqft cabin that had been built over the property line of the National Forrest. Had to stay out of the root zone with equipment so I rented a small crane that sat out of the area and we cut the house apart in 10 x 10 sections with chain saws. I hired the rigger and operator from the crane company and myself and a few other guys cut. Had several flatbed trucks/trailers lined up to take the piles. The crane weighed the pieces as they flew over and when the vehicle was full I had 2-3 guys helping with strapping and tarping the load. We had 2 trucks (one left and one right) so we were always loading while the other was strapping down or backing in. I think it cost about 35k and it was gone in a day - even took out the concrete pilings and backfilled them from a bucket filled with approved soil.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Would love to see a video of that demo! Approved soil. Didn't know there was such a thing! Gotta love government.