In stark contrast to the house deconstruction photos and blog posted earlier this month, this photo shows two nearby homes being demolished.
Granted the materials will need to be recycled per the laws of the local municipality, but it seems so sad to see all that wonderful framing lumber shredded, when it could have been reused by artisans creating handmade furniture or people building new homes for the needy. Was the price difference really analyzed, or was this route chosen just because it is the "normal" and expedient way to take down a house? We don't know, but we encourage you to take the extra step to give John Morrow of the ReUse People a call to see if you too can't actually save money as well as reduce energy consumption through reuse by selecting deconstruction instead of demolition.
Good day.... My contractors are going to have to charge me more to remodel an old pair of flats into a renewed building.., than it would have cost to demo and build new. I will wind up with 3 flats, and an expanded length building, but my bill for the same result, if built new from scratch....would have been 10% less, at least...
It is ironic that "remodelling costs more than "total demo and build new"..
jack barry in the Sunset.
Posted by: john barry | April 25, 2011 at 02:25 PM