Roselea

Category: Demolition

The demolition of old structures on site.

  • 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!

  • Timber, Timber and Timber!

    All the timber from the Old Place has been cleared up and chucked into one huge pile!

    One day there will be .. one enormous bonfire! We will burn up most of the wood but some of it is in good condition and will keep ready for future use.

    All that remains is the chimney and a collection of bricks piles scattered around in the footprint of the once standing proud Old Place!

    We will now clear up the rubble and old paths and old floor slabs.

  • House Demolition Party

    Today we had a party! We invited all our nearby family to come and have fun demolishing the Old Place!

    We had six extra people here, all making great efforts in helping us break apart the wooden shell of the Old Place!



    We calculated that today’s multi man & woman workforce, probably saved us at least 20 days, if not 30 days of effort! We really thank all our family for their fabulous effort in helping us!

    The only thing left standing is the chimney! We will tidying up the last remaining planks of wood and rubble and have a “nice” scene of the chimney standing all by itself!

  • Hazardous Asbestos Panels all in Skip

    Today we have finally got all the cement panels with the asbestos, from the Old Place and all corners of the garden loaded into the skip we hired last Thursday.

    We had calculated that we have about 1.5 cubic metres of of the stuff, which nearly filled the skip. Right up to the top. The skip is the biggest one they do! It is the effect of the layers and the difficulty in avoiding uneven placements of the thousands of pieces!

    That is the last of the asbestos problem. At last!

  • All Cement Panels Stripped off and Piled Up!

    The internal walls and ceiling cement panels are completely off in the Old Place! It is all piled into one location ready for the skip when it comes.

    It looks like that it will fill a large 8 cubic yard skip completely!

  • Internal Coverings being Stripped!

    The last couple of days have seen the internal walls, ceilings, doors and windows wooden battens and framework being stripped off!



    Also the bathroom wall is now dismantled, and all the cement panels off both the walls and ceiling in that room as a whole, is now stripped off too! you can now see the underside of the roof and the outside heather edge boarding!



    It is a very dirty job, but we are wearing a complete high grade one-piece protection suit, a FG2 graded masks, and hard hat with visor pulled down! Our boots have steel sole plates too! it feels like one is entering a crime scene for forensic examination! Smile!

  • Days 6 to 14 of House demolition Time Lapse movies

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