Author: Stephen

  • Waste disposal

    Another of those inevitable expenses involved in demolition work is disposing of the waste. Now that the demolition is complete we have to get rid of all the waste. There is a lot of brick and concrete rubble and some general waste like carpets and other rubbish. The costs are not insignificant, a large skip for the general waste costs £135 (maybe 1.5Tons or £90/Ton) and the rubble costs £144 a lorry load (about 13 tons). But the metals make you money, disposing of the mesh from the rendering made us £30. The video show that it took 5 lorry loads to clear the rubble (£720! For about 60 Tons or £12/Ton). All those are cheap compared to disposing of the Asbestos cement panels from the house which cost £1037 for just 3.3 Tons (£315/Ton)! So all in all waste disposal has cost us 1037+720+135-30=£1862.

    Grab lorry removing rubble.

    Grab lorry removing rubble.

  • Chimney Demolition

    We have now demolished the chimney stack, which was the last of the demolition tasks! We looked at the structure of the cimney and it was obvoius that it was originally designed for open wood burning fires, but was later retrofitted for burning coal.



    The actuall demolition was quite easy using the mini-digger, as you can see from the movie.


  • More demolition of the remaining structures.

    Shaun has carried on his good work and demolished the outside loo and a old greenhouse.

  • Removing foundations and paths

    Shauns been beavering away between the rain!

  • Burning the house down …

    Well since the house is allready down, we are actually burning the scrap timber from the demolition.
    Here is a time lapse of the bonfire…

  • We need a bonfire!

    We are building up an impressive amount of wood to burn… Hopefully it will be a bit wet tommorrow and we can get combusting.

    Lots of bits of wood!

    Lots of bits of wood!

    Lots of bits of wood!

    Lots of bits of wood!


  • Those pesky wasps did work hard…

    Last summer we had a plague of wasps around the back of the house. We tried a number of ways to kill them and eventually succeded.
    Here is are some pictures of the nest after it fell out the wall when Shaun removed the cover.

    Ye olde Wasp's nest

    Ye olde Wasp’s nest

    Ye olde Wasp's nest

    Ye olde Wasp’s nest


  • House is naked!

    Yes the house has now reverted to it’s childhood and has no clothes on…

    Look no battens

    Look no battens

    Look no battens

    Look no battens

    Look no battens

    Look no battens


  • Days 6 to 14 of House demolition Time Lapse movies

    Here are a few more days of timelapse movies for your delectation…










  • Days 3,4 & 5 Of The House Demolition

    Nothing much done on Saturday as Shaun was feeling ill all day (very unusual)… So Stephen just fixed a saftey rope from one end of the ridge to the other.

    On Sunday Shaun made good progress and stripped a third of the roof.
    Monday Shaun continued the good work (but the computer recording the images was not working properly and only recorded the last part of the day).