When I was a kid my father tore down houses for a living and I helped him in the summer time. We used gloves, hammers and crow bars. We saved every brick, all the lumber and hardwood flooring, windows, doors, metal fixtures etc... We sold all of if to a dealer who sold it to people that would reuse it to build other houses. Now it all goes to the landfills. So much for recycling.

@michaelh5055

3 жыл бұрын

What an idiot. That is a lot of work for little pay.

@grandinosour

3 жыл бұрын

Recycling is too expensive and actually uses.more energy than just makeing new

@L2002kas

3 жыл бұрын

@@grandinosour Don´t know how it´s in the US, but in Germany we get out the inventory at least as well as the windows and doors. Remelting the glass is the best way to get new glass. For the enviroment and for the pocket!

@lvofflphi66

2 жыл бұрын

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@michaelh7527

2 жыл бұрын

If everything was in such good shape, then why was the home torn down?

So sad to see these beautiful old homes destroyed

Goodbye wood, brick, and mortar. Hello foam, plastic, and particle board

@grandinosour

3 жыл бұрын

Goodby fire trap...hello building according to fire codes

@tylerbhumphries

3 жыл бұрын

@@grandinosour Fire trap? Brick is more resistant to fire than all the boards modern houses are made out of. Trust me, my house that was built in 1897 has survived 3 fires with minimum damage over its 124 year old life. The only fire hazards these old houses have is their electrical work if it hasn’t been updated. I would much rather shell out a few thousand to upgrade that than go live in one of these new card board box houses that wouldn’t survive 1 fire and collapse every time a bad storm hits.

R.I.P old house

When the excavator tore out the window and wall exposing the bathroom, I immediately thought of Cleveland from Family Guy falling out in the bathtub, saying "no, noo, noo, nooo!!!!!" ...LOL

I like how this side of the house was still completely unscratched until 5:27 while the interior was getting wiped out!

Good Bye Beautiful House, Hello Ugly Apartment Building. ;(

@gavinhartmann2817

3 жыл бұрын

I know right what if they didn't want to live alone and no in a apartment building the people should have a right to stand up and say no to that

@genedameier8746

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinhartmann2817 , Money talks. They probably paid top dollar for the house because they wanted the lot, to build the apartment house.

@gavinhartmann2817

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah and as a home owner thay could have filled a law suit and made to where they would have to get off the property or let them go to prison i might have a disorder but it doesn't take a rocket scientist and no it doesn't always take money

@genedameier8746

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinhartmann2817 , They bought the house legally. They offered so much money the owners couldn't say no. Then they tore down the house.

Arlington place will never look as nice as it once did. Change is good, as long as it's in the right direction. But when it's gone it's gone.

Sure glad there wasn't a person sitting on the "Can" in that bathroom

This operator is really good. Amazing how fast and clean he wrecks that house. And all the materials go inside the footprint. That is real skill. Impressive.I love how he grabbed the chimney and it rained down bricks. LOL. Beautiful wrecking job dude.

@wolfiewolfification

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the like. We're you the operator. If so you are awesome

@marcfosman5751

4 жыл бұрын

if this guy is so good why did he mix the bricks with the wood.....you never do that!

@MaskinJunior

11 ай бұрын

Swedish operators put the house sorted for recycling in boxes. Then you can talk about skill when they pull off the roof, then go over the container for brick and concrete and drop the tiles before putting the remains of the roof in the container for wood. A swedish demolisher would call this just making a mess.

What's wrong with that house? I've seen many a lot worse still being lived in.

What a mess of wood bricks slates furniture all mixed up together cowboys 🤠

And in its place comes another characterless apartment building.

Bethesda USED to be a real community with a true "home" feel. Now it is dead and just another bunch of ticky tacky apartments and commercial building with zero personality. How terribly sad.

@Justin-cn9hq

2 жыл бұрын

Ok.

I wonder if this was a case of "out with the old, in with the new" or if it had some critical flaw...

la démolition de cette maison est vraiment dommage

wish I could of done that to the house I lost in my divorce.

Imagine coming home and thinking, "Somebody's been here."

Be sure to pay all parking tickets on time!!

Never mess with a CAT!

That looks like a lotta fun. Those brick walls crumble and fall all too easily. Not a good house material.

Could they not save some of the house to use somewhere else?

Both fascinating and sad at the same time.

WOW, 10 minutes and the house is gone.

But ruin. The tree itself. It was enough to swipe the tears several times and after the cottage.

From 0:00 to 5:40 "I will never leave my house!!" 05:48 "ok let me out"

Beautiful house, i'm so sad!

shouldn't you ring the door bell to see if anyone is home?

Красиво строят Красиво ломают. Караганда.

seems like the debris don't have to be seperated

I can imagine Cleveland in his bath tub falling out

Wait! I left the stove on!

Hey John! I will be doing a demo soon my first demo with a 15ton shovel may you share crucial important advices sir? I been around them alot but never done it myself what's the duties as the operator? Thanks for the video

@JohnZWetmore

3 жыл бұрын

I am not an operator, so I am in a poor position to give advice. However, I expect the issue of safety makes the top of everyone's list. And a big part of safety involves staying aware of your surroundings, particularly where any people are. Spend some time chatting with any operators that you know. And it won't be too many years before the new guy comes to you for advice.

And another "DOLLAR GENERAL' goes up in a week.

Another bit of history bites the dust! What a shame

Where I’m from apartments are made of reinforced concrete and if you are lucky some brick and mortar wall, it takes a lot of jackhammering to bring them down, massive over engineering IMHO

Seems lots of houses on Arlington have been demolished, going by the amount of videos on KZread

@JohnZWetmore

3 жыл бұрын

A builder acquired several houses on the block to assemble a large piece of land for an apartment building. The owners were well paid.

So many homeless and people tear down perectly good homes

Looked like old 50s mirror/ medicine cabinet in bathroom got destroyed

I hope they have the correct address.

@Kuwi-enjoyer

4 жыл бұрын

Don Brock they do

@indigochild3425

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

When the police say give up or we’re coming in.

The People who toor the house down should Be inside and hauled away with the debris!

Must be a fun job.

A ghostly bit of smokey style dust wafting around in the bucket as it rises up. 0:40

Is this a thing now in America...ripping down well-built, historic houses?

that bucket is massive

They broke the mirror in the bathroom. We know what that means.

How much demo of this kind costs? Every effective way of dealing with old structures!

Takes months to put up and hours to knock down amazing !

Is all of this going to the landfill, or is it still being sorted out and recycled?

@JohnZWetmore

3 жыл бұрын

Much of the metal, particularly copper pipes, will be recycled. To the extent that they are kept separate, the brick and concrete will be crushed and used in construction. Everything else heads to the landfill.

This house was obviously solid and should not have been destroyed just for another "apartment complex." The DC area is already overcrowded and adding another apartment in Bethesda by destroying a neighborhood is shameful. I guess that's what they call "progress." Shame on progress.

@blusnuby2

3 жыл бұрын

Nine BILLION human gut-tracks on this marble. Quantity versus quality. Welcome to the 21st century.

Da um trabalho tão grande pra construir e vai para o chão em minutos .

Must be the hose guys first day.

it would be nice to see inside the houses before they pull them down

Wow just 10 minutes

Numbers 1,2,3,4 & 5 were pulled down on the same street - why ?

@JohnZWetmore

4 жыл бұрын

A developer acquired several adjacent properties to create a large parcel to build an apartment building.

@andyhughes4912

4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnZWetmore Thanks for your reply.

@lisascarrott6142

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe it would cost to much to repair maybe it wasnt structural safe to go in. Maybe it had mould damp or house caught fire and there was water damage. There could be many reasons why houses are pulled down. Sometimes they are not safe or secure too old or had dry rot

Oh, Not this House!!!!

So what was wrong with that house?

@JohnZWetmore

3 жыл бұрын

The house might have been fine. But the land was worth more than the house with the block being redeveloped.

Ovo je NEDAJ BOZE ! Kako imaju dusu ???

Non riuscirai mai a distruggere una casa in Italia in così poco tempo

What happens if you get the wrong address

Deconstruction > Demolition. All that reusable and recyclable material… Did they save any of it?

Pure satisfaction.

@ericvansteenlandt7888

2 жыл бұрын

You fool !!

I don't like Arlington road ! ah well I'll just take my big excavator & demolish it house by house👍

Your only ment to blow the bloody door off

Why just show the back side of the house, I think they should circle it so we can see what it all looks like. It's to bad they didn't want to save the brick.

@JohnZWetmore

4 жыл бұрын

It would be nice to have two or three cameras and show the demolition from several angles. With just one camera, by the time you move to another position across the street you have missed a lot of the action.

Very sad

Why just why

I'm thinking circa 1930s-40s build date. 80-90 years' service. Today's crap houses fall apart in 30.

Developers are the scum of the earth, They will do anything more money. They don`t care who they hurt or put out on the street.

Maquina e tmerrshme

All that wonderfully seasoned wood gone to waste a lot of d.i.y blokes would love to have some of it . Why not advertise the next time you rip one down and let them help themselves

@BurbSK-bi2wh

4 жыл бұрын

Not going to happen because of liability

And you will build some wooden/pallet💩 on that place...why don't you renovate this ?

company i work for did a cleaner job , dont your laborers gotta pick and sort tho the rubbish? great job though gents

What an incredible waste the poor people that built the place in the first place must be turning over in their graves but that seems to be progress isn’t it? Pull it down? Throw it away if it’s history or any value down the road to ruin. Regards Alan

Too hard to watch.

This Building is build before 1920. And the Style are not the Anglo US Style, more the Danish Style. The new Appartement become the Styleless and faceless universal design 🤮. Rio, New York, Sydney, Düsseldorf, all the new buildings are identified not the city. For 100 Years can You see at the Building the country. Nederlands with the Klinker Houses, Houses in Paris have the high smoker's...

@mohammednadeemanwar2213

4 жыл бұрын

True. In UK, old buildings destroyed, and bog standard generic apartments erected in there place. identical steel glass concrete, Cladding both wood and plastic. Whether your in Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool, Leicester, London or Plymouth, oh Cardiff too. I don't Believe they employ architects but copy and pasters. Hence the drawing boards long left the building and computer software runs the reigns.

@andreduplessis508

3 жыл бұрын

@@mohammednadeemanwar2213 every engineer the world over thinks they can be an Architect. Some even say so. So sad when you cannot pass selection to study Architecture and have to settle for a lesser discipline...

That would be impossible for us in germany. Everything has to be neatly separated.

@Whitehousebeetle

4 жыл бұрын

The house would have been moved.

@KILAPH24471

4 жыл бұрын

At least, ideally, the debris will get recycled.

@mohammednadeemanwar2213

4 жыл бұрын

In UK, the demolition contractors would not get licence or permission to demolish, if their not going to separate materials. Copper wires plumbing, lead, steel & iron. Bricks and stones resold. Timber, windows, doors, flooring and beams & joists sold. Big profits from salvage make recycling extremely viable. Those that buy repurposed materials create designer furniture, or restore extend their own homes. Even down to door knobs, (reconditioned light fittings), to skirting boards and architraves. Nothing is wasted.

@jeromewysocki8809

4 жыл бұрын

Nadeem Anwar , good for them. That is the way it should be!