Old Mobile Home Demolition - Carl and Anita's Place
These Desperately Needed Retirement....
Phase I - Salvaged the aluminum siding and windows for recycling. Carl's project was an owner participation plan. He did a wonderful job, removing appliances, cabinets and cutting the utilities lines. Carl opted to recycle the aluminum windows and siding, steel roof and steel frame. His participation, plus the money from recycling helped him reduce the demolition costs by about $500.
Phase II - Demolition Begins! Never underestimate the power of a Bobcat.
Phase III - Disposal... Phase IV - Clean up. Good bye old house!
Never even bumped that shed on the left. It takes about 3, 40yd. containers for a single-wide.
It was only about 3 feet from the mobile.
Old Mobile Home Demolition - Chris and Bert's former home
Doesn't look too bad from the outside, but Chris and Bert's renters neglected this once very nice single wide. Years of the roof and plumbing leaks destroyed it. Poor place reeked of mold and mildew.
A lot of old '60's, '70's and even '80' mobiles are no longer road worthy, so we demolish them on site.
What we found after removing the aluminum siding. These two photos show what happens when the roof gutters are neglected and rain water runs down between siding and exterior walls. Yup, that's a can that some factory worker left between the walls while building the mobile, more than 30 years ago.
Aluminum siding removed for recycling. We wore Tyvec suits and filter masks for this one.
Property Clearing and Prep.-It's a relatively simple job: clear the land, do a little trenching or what ever the customer needs. Seems like no two jobs are the same and seldom do they turn out as we thought they would.
A "Day" At Tom's New House...
Tom's building his own house, so he called us, needing excavation for that yellow
ball and some sewer line trenching. Just a few hours work.
Well, we got that yellow ball, septic thingy buried in good time, even on that really
steep muddy slope right next to the house.
"Oh, can you transport the new wood stove in the garage to the lower level?" says Tom.
No problem: dodged the garage trusses, went back down that muddy steep slope in
pouring down rain, up a slope to where the lower deck will be, between narrow
columns holding up the second floor deck and into the lower level. Didn't nick a
thing in the process, except our nerves.
"How 'bout trenching for my electric service cable?" Tom asked at the end of the day.
Sure, no problem: cable had to be right at the very edge of the road that goes by
the house, on the left, out of the picture. Another muddy, steep slope. This time,
the slope is right at the edge of the road and goes right down to the garage.Next day, it was still pouring down rain, but that's December in western Pierce County.
So, we just went to work, trying to keep our back hoe on the road while trenching right
on the edge of it where that steep slope is.A week later, after the rain had stopped for a couple of days, we were able to get
our equipment out of Tom's muddy steep driveway. Whew!
A Day Clearing Black Berries At the Beach...
What did we say about jobs not going the way they were expected to?
Ok, beautiful Puget Sound water front view. What you don't see is the black berry
bushes that were to the rear of this picture. Our good customer Rhode just wanted the bushes
cleared from his land so he can build his house. Given the amount of bushes and lot size,
should be one day's worth of work.
Three days later we were finished. Found massive tree stumps to move to the burn pile, almost
trashed our machine into a hidden hole in the ground, worked with the stump grinder guys to
make sure that the wood chips they left behind got mixed with native soil and spread into some
other holes in the property and regraded his little trail down toward the beach.
Good job and Rhode was great to work for.
