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.