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Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   on 05/01/2009 at 06:53 AM   
 
  1. My god! Don’t the new owners/re-modelers know about dumpsters? What the hell is all that construction/destruction debris doing laying in the yard?

    There’s a rule about trash and garbage and debris: you can pick it up and throw it away once, or you can pick it and throw it away repeatedly. Once is easier.

    Posted by ooGcM taobmaetS    United States   05/02/2009  at  06:56 PM  

  2. That was a beautiful house.. a shame, really…

    Bill

    Posted by Doctor DETH    United States   05/03/2009  at  04:13 AM  

  3. It was a pretty house but the inside wasn’t really good anymore. I should post the video I shot a year ago inside.  Woodworm everywhere, water stains etc.  Exposed pipes and meter reading inside the kitchen.  It would never have been financially possible to restore properly and economically.

    McGoo..
    Funny you should have mentioned that.  I asked the crew why so much of the old brick and rocks etc. were being crushed and then run over. I thought it was going to be a foundation or something.  The demolition crew of the house on the other side of us didn’t do that. In fact, they didn’t even save the old bricks, which really are quite valuable.

    The answer I got was that because of the rain we had and what was also expected this week,(missed us so far) it was done to keep as much mud down as possible when the trucks started to come in with the building materials.  It is done they say so the the street won’t become a muddy mess and leave trails of mud.

    When he told me that I understood because when the other house was torn down, all through a wet spring and part of the summer last year, our street was a muddy mess for sure. Big thick mounds of the stuff that didn’t get pressed down by other cars or trucks. Rains sort of cleaned it up but of course it didn’t mmatter as more was produced.

    The entire garage btw was torn down and ALL the lumber burned on a huge bon fire. Same with much of the wood from the house itself. That was another surprise.  Law states that bldgs. infected with worm can not leave the premises and must be burned.  They did not do that at the other house either. There were weeks when they had overflowing dumpsters, called skips here, and as soon as the one or 2 were emptied they filled again within a day.

    Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   05/04/2009  at  06:42 AM  

  4. This sounds like the beginning of another long nightmare. You have my sympathy.

    So, what kind of house is going in? Will it match the older ones? You said “eyesore” but after all you’ve written about the power of the local councils, I’d be surprised if they let something atypical get built in this “classic” neighborhood.

    And I agree with Doc. These are lovely houses. All they need is a thatched roof and they’d fit right in ... in the Shire. Pity the insides didn’t hold up.

    Posted by Drew458    United States   05/04/2009  at  11:59 AM  

  5. This sounds like the beginning of another long nightmare.

    Right you are and its started. 7:20am. It’s going to be a five bedroom house but I’m told the rooms are kinda small. Anyway ... about 3200 sq. feet, two floors.

    Well, the new one just built next door is this red brick, it’s pretty close to oura as it’s a larger house.
    Looking out the side kitchen window all we see is a red brick wall.  Some light gets blocked. I guess it could have been worse.  The city didn’t approve their original plans. Heaven knows what they planned then.
    This house now being built took two yrs to get approval.  Their plans kept getting refused by the city planners.

    Now we’re regularly getting our driveway blocked by these large mammoth lorries . This morning it was a carrier that had to load one of those diggers with the bucket on it.HUGE thing.  And deliveries of materials haven’t even started yet. The guys here now are merely preparing the ground and doing foundation digging and the drills and machinery are maddening. Oh yeah ... and the bus drivers are gonna have a fit again this summer.
    This is a small almost country road. When on of those large vehicles is parked for whatever reason, that bus is gonna be late.  I watched this morning as one guy loaded the digger and chained things down, and it was about 10 or maybe 12 minutes. Actually it was longer then that because he had to drive the monster up the ramp onto the carrier.

    Long nightmare exactly right!

    Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   05/06/2009  at  04:31 AM  

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