House demo

[69Coronet]

Im bored out of my skull so ill waste some time posting pictures of the house i helped demo.

Some friends of ours bought this house (which is next door to theres)after the city took it away from the people who were living in it to tear down so they could have a bigger yard and some space for their kids to play.

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House and garage

from across the street

the back yard

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I wish id taken a picture of the bathroom but those white chunks on the roof are ice that was chipped out of the upstairs bathroom.  after the city took the house from the family in it the house sat for a couple months and one of the water mains froze and cracked.  It flooded the bathroom so i had to chip about a foot and half of ice out of there

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this is the inside of the garage after we cleaned out all the garbage. There was enough stuff in there to fill 3 industrial size dumpsters.

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we found an inline 6cylinder engine buried in the back corner of the garage.

there were about 4 times as many tires in that garage then are out on the curb there. not to mention the other 10 that were in the ground being used as flower pots

the back of the garage.  when the people were kicked out of the house they left a car under the lean to in the back of the garage.

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looking towards the front door from the main living room

looking into the front room. there was so much stuff in there you couldnt go past the doorway. if you managed to climb in there the stuff in there would have come up to your stomach

looking into the downstairs bedroom.  another room crammed full of so much crap you couldnt go in it

looking from the main living room at the front room and the downstairs bedroom.

these pictures where taken after we had taken maybe a third of the stuff out already

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looking into the main living room after i cleaned it out and swept it

looking into the front room after it was cleaned out and i swept it.

looking into the downstairs bedroom

the kitchen after it was cleaned out and swept

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the downstairs bathroom and backroom

another picture of the main living room before it was completly cleaned.  through the door is the kitchen and you can sort of see the that was in it

another picture of the kitchen after i swept it out.  behind the stove and the heater there is where the cats crapped.  they just threw some cat litter on the floor back there.  so the whole house smelled real bad. and the carpet upstairs was soaked from the ice in the bathroom which made it smell upstairs.  The ceilings and floors downstairs were badly damaged from water dripping from upstairs.

[OldGuy]

So, are they going to tear it down or what?  If they are going to tear it down, why go to the bother to clean it up first

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The backyard after it was cleaned up and all the trees cut down.    I helped cut down 11 trees from that yard and that wasnt even all of them

this is the house after we stripped off all the aluminum siding to recycle it

back of the house.  the green boards there are covering the cellar stairs. when we first opened the doors on the cellar they came right off their hinges the wood was so rotten.  the first 3 steps broke so it was a big step from the top step to the top of the stairway.  The basement was a huge mess.  water had gotten in there was a big puddles all around it. there where tons of cardboard boxes that had deteriorated from the water so every thing in them were just in piles around the place.  there was garbage just lying on the floor the one side of the basement had a pile of wood and boards half way up to the ceiling.  there was 15 gallons of unused motor oil from the 80s and about 35 gallons of paint in cans or spray cans.  all kinds of chemicals.  a 55 gallon drum of GM antifreeze that was empty.  the pipes coming off the coal fired boiler were insulated with asbestos. there was stacks of asbestos tiles.  Windows doors and glass every where.  found a box of unused pistons. there where old washing and drying machines (and i mean really old).  we even found a snow blower from the 50s down there.

[69Coronet]

So, are they going to tear it down or what?  If they are going to tear it down, why go to the bother to clean it up first

They tore it down. im getting there

we had to clean it cause our friends had it appraised because they donated it to the fire department to practice rescue missions on.  so the better it looks the more its worth. so then they can put it on there taxes

[red72chrgr]

So, are they going to tear it down or what? If they are going to tear it down, why go to the bother to clean it up first

I was wondering the same thing. I'm not trying to sound like a**hole 69Coronet, just wondering that's all.

[Charger1973]

Hell that place looks better than 1/2 of the houses ive lived in over the years. 

[OldGuy]

So, are they going to tear it down or what?  If they are going to tear it down, why go to the bother to clean it up first

They tore it down. im getting there

we had to clean it cause our friends had it appraised because they donated it to the fire department to practice rescue missions on.  so the better it looks the more its worth. so then they can put it on there taxes

Okay - sounds reasonable

[Mean 318]

I dont mean to be an ass, but that seems like a huge waste! I love old houses and that is one cool little old house! 

[69Coronet]

thats what i thought.  but if our friends didnt buy it some slum lord would have.  then he would have rented it out to some scumbag.

plus the place had water damage, it didnt have a working boiler, no cabinets in the kitchen, the sink was from the 60s, the floors and the walls and the ceilings would need to be replaced. the basement didnt have any windows they just had boards leaning against the opening and it would need a new roof and front porch and it smelled terrible in there. all of the stuff that was usable was stripped off the house and sold or i got it or our friends kept it, like trim around doors and windows and the doors and the big fancy windows and some other things. but the whole place wasnt really worth fixing.  by the looks of the wiring in that place you would think it should have burned down.

The place looked pretty livable though after being cleaned out and swept

[Mean 318]

well at least you guys saved what you could! That pocket door is real cool!

[69Coronet]

well at least you guys saved what you could! That pocket door is real cool!

some guy across the street who is restoring his old house came and took that door to use in his

[terrible one]

Any pictures from the cellar?

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Any pictures from the cellar?

sorry no. i wish i had but the only times i went down there was when we were cleaning cause it was pretty bad down there and we didnt go down unless we had to cause of the asbestos.  and there werent any lights down there

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the front. the window is out cause we had  to push 2 refrigderators and a stove out the window and off the porch roof.  that was the only way to get them out of there.

the garage after the trees were cut down.  i really liked this garage cause it would have been nice for working on cars. there wasnt much space but on the one side there were giant blocks of wood holding up some boards on either side level with the ground and there was 2 or 3 feet between the boards.  and then you could back the car in go around to the back door and then you could go under the car and work on it

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after the house had been stripped of all its reusable pieces

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This is how it looked the first day when the demo people came. 

They tore down the garage one day and the house the next

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couple more the day before it was torn down

[41husk]

The building I have the mopad in was much worse than that, I cleaned it up rehabed it and am renting the upstairs apartment.  The famikly have rented from me for 2 years now.  They are clean and always ontime with the rent.  Now it is one of the nicer buildings in the nieghborhood.  I would like to buy and tear down the duplex next store and put in a poll barn with lift

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The building I have the mopad in was much worse than that, I cleaned it up rehabed it and am renting the upstairs apartment.  The famikly have rented from me for 2 years now.  They are clean and always ontime with the rent.  Now it is one of the nicer buildings in the nieghborhood.  I would like to buy and tear down the duplex next store and put in a poll barn with lift

haha. you wouldnt be saying that if you had gone in this place

[PocketThunder]

What year was it built?  I'm gonna guess 1880.  Am i close?

[Charger_Fan]

Cool pics, looks like it was a lot of work cleaning that place out.

There's an area near my house that was nothing but farm land forever...until urban sprawl moved in. In one location, a bunch of the farm land has been turned into shopping centers & a gas station. There are 3 farm houses nearby, one of which is almost brand new...then I guess the zoning changed. One of the houses has been torn down & retail buildings are going in there.
One of the other two is actually a nice house that looks to have been built in the late 70's sometime. I noticed it's now vacant & there's a friggin' "Wallyworld (Walmart) is coming" sign in front, at the roadside. It sucks that a nice house like that will be demolished for the sake of something like Wallyworld.

The third house that's almost new...so new in fact, that the interior isn't even done yet...I don't know what's happening with that. It looks too large to pick off it's foundation & move, so who knows.
I should get some pics, it's sad.

[TK73]

Some friends of ours bought this house (which is next door to theres)after the city took it away from the people who were living in it to tear down so they could have a bigger yard and some space for their kids to play.

I've been waiting for DAYS to have somebody comment on this... did everybody miss this part?

[PocketThunder]

Some friends of ours bought this house (which is next door to theres)after the city took it away from the people who were living in it to tear down so they could have a bigger yard and some space for their kids to play.

I've been waiting for DAYS to have somebody comment on this... did everybody miss this part?

Nope, i saw it.  and your point is? 

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What year was it built?  I'm gonna guess 1880.  Am i close?

Dont know.  It didnt have an exact year on the deed though i never got to see the deed.  there was a date of 1902 for a well to be put in though.  so i figure it was built close to that.  could probly find out an exact year from the historical society here in town

[69Coronet]

Cool pics, looks like it was a lot of work cleaning that place out.

There's an area near my house that was nothing but farm land forever...until urban sprawl moved in. In one location, a bunch of the farm land has been turned into shopping centers & a gas station. There are 3 farm houses nearby, one of which is almost brand new...then I guess the zoning changed. One of the houses has been torn down & retail buildings are going in there.
One of the other two is actually a nice house that looks to have been built in the late 70's sometime. I noticed it's now vacant & there's a friggin' "Wallyworld (Walmart) is coming" sign in front, at the roadside. It sucks that a nice house like that will be demolished for the sake of something like Wallyworld.

The third house that's almost new...so new in fact, that the interior isn't even done yet...I don't know what's happening with that. It looks too large to pick off it's foundation & move, so who knows.
I should get some pics, it's sad.

damn walmart. i hate walmart.  the exact same thing is happening here.  new houses everywhere.  theres one neighbor hood where every house is excatly the same and it looks like crap. it seems like another farm is torn down every day. it seems like they could at least keep the farm house and build around it instead of just tearing it down.

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Some friends of ours bought this house (which is next door to theres)after the city took it away from the people who were living in it to tear down so they could have a bigger yard and some space for their kids to play.

I've been waiting for DAYS to have somebody comment on this... did everybody miss this part?

yea i was wondering when you guys would ask about that to.  So i shall now attempt to explain why the city took the house away from the family.

An old guy and his wife bought the place around 1975 .found some of the old guys     o magazines from the 80s hidden under the staircase on one of our many searches for valuable things cause our friend was absaloutley convinced there was a stash of money somewhere in that house.   anyway the old guy died in about 1998 (their son had lived with them this whole time) so it was just the mom the son and her sons girlfriend and daughter there now.  well not to long after somehow the son lost gaurdianship of his mom. so his mom went off to the old folks home but she still owned this house.  So now the son who dosent work has a free place to live with his girlfriend and here daughter. 

so in December of about 2006 the city i guess got tired of nobody paying taxes on this place and they took it from the son living there.  and so the son and his family just left everything (including the food) except TVs and beds and moved up to Michigans UP. thats why there was so much crap in that house.  lotsa cool stuff though to.  like the old guy was a mechanic back in the 70s and 80s for the GM dealership here in town so the garage was full of new and used car parts ( got all those ).  the biggest thing we found in the garage was a new bumper for a Chrysler still in its original wrapping though some of the wrapping had deteriorated.  Ill sell the bumper for $60 if you come get it .

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in the 3rd picture you can see cans of food on a shelf

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[gnrl01]

I agree those old homes like that are cool! I think alot of us who love restoring old cars love them old houses which are just as much a part of our heritage I see a house like that and I picture the old movie Christmas Story and you'll shoot your eye out kid. Beats the heck out of the old cookie cutter homes. You did alot of work and I am sure it was killing you too but yep least you saved what you could

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I agree those old homes like that are cool! I think alot of us who love restoring old cars love them old houses which are just as much a part of our heritage I see a house like that and I picture the old movie Christmas Story and you'll shoot your eye out kid. Beats the heck out of the old cookie cutter homes. You did alot of work and I am sure it was killing you too but yep least you saved what you could

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we did more then a lotta work. especially after the house was gone.  that was the worst part doing the landscaping that came after the house .Im just glad we didnt have to completly clean everything out of that place.  If i had the money and was older i would have saved the place.   And what sucks is the foundation was in perfect condition and so was the  wood siding.  there was maybe 2 coats of paint at the most on that siding and there wasnt a rotten spot on it it was perfect

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second picture is of the houses coal fired boiler

[PocketThunder]

Hey, i though this happened a while ago.  i remember seeing that picture of the bed matress in the attic with no way to get it out. 

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thats a pool table

besides i only posted a couple pictures then

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one of the demo guys getting a box of arrows in the last pic

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view through the front window

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