Burning Down My House

[w2zero]

Note:  No Proflexes were injured in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8K7XdOg7c&feature=player_embedded

[jimbob]

well, that's one advantage of building houses from timber frame instead of the bricks and mortar we use in the UK.

so do we get to see the new house when it's finished? kind of like a phoenix from the ashes?

[Spokes]

Thats mad. Health and safety would have a heart attack in the UK!

Chris

[w2zero]

There were  lot of hoops to jump through here as well.  Had to have the asbestos inspection and lab tests.  Then the asbestos removal and disposal.  Demolition permits.  Removal of all hydrocarbon producing flammables and a lot of other regs to meet.  The trainee fire fighters weren't all allowed to go in since they were at all stages of instruction.  They had two weeks of classroom time specific to this structure first.  Air quality permitting was required and it was weather specific.  And a lot more.  Still cheaper than just a break it up and haul it away.

[w2zero]

My neighbor is a pro photographer and took some excellent shots.  http://peterbergephotography.com/shirleyfire.aspx  If you use any of them please give him attribution.  I'm in there too.  Well not "in" there, more like standing across the street in one picture.

[kiwi]

over here one possibility would be to sell the house to a house removal company...timber floors on timber or concrete pile foudation of course.Problem solved

[shovelon]

Hot Dang!

That's some barbeque.

[w2zero]

Way back when I was the asst chief of the dept, I got to play in those training burns.  Lots more fun than the real deal since we would put that down fast. 

Re: the house breaking companies, they don't exist here so there isn't a market.  There is the possibility of parting out a house with enough old lumber but much of that was already gone or buggered by the crappy remodels over the years.  The house was built pre 1900 and skidded to that location by teams of horses or oxen to provide quick housing in a mill town.  The mill being the copper smelter built here in 1890.

[kiwi]

Way back when I was the asst chief of the dept, I got to play in those training burns.  Lots more fun than the real deal since we would put that down fast. 

Re: the house breaking companies, they don't exist here so there isn't a market.  There is the possibility of parting out a house with enough old lumber but much of that was already gone or buggered by the crappy remodels over the years.  The house was built pre 1900 and skidded to that location by teams of horses or oxen to provide quick housing in a mill town.  The mill being the copper smelter built here in 1890.

the house would be removed in one peice if possible and relocated on new site,renovated and sold....if too big its cut into pieces then put back together on another site....

[fyrstormer]

What a waste of perfectly serviceable hardwood.

[w2zero]

The only hardwood in the place was the shipping pallets used for fuel.  The floors were soft, the few timbers supporting it were rotten and the multiple hack job remodels stripped a lot of the original structural strength out of it.  I suppose you could have come and salvaged the vintage T-111 siding except that it, like the rest of the materials weren't worth the cost of removing them.