Comments on: Demolished

By: Heavy Lifting | 360 Winnett Ave

Heavy Lifting | 360 Winnett Ave — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:45:04 +0000

[...] they didn’t get very far without first needing to move the final steel beams into place. I previously described the excavator as being large, but that puppy wasn’t anywhere close to the size and [...]

By: Jeremy Bell

Jeremy Bell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:04:40 +0000

Thanks Jarek – the track is called “E-Pro (Feat. Beastie Boys)”, which is a mashup of Beck and Beastie Boys, created by DJ Erb.

By: Jarek

Jarek — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:06:49 +0000

Neat project, your blog passed on by a friend that’s also renovating.

Kind of an unrelated question – what’s the song on the video?

Good luck with the “reno”
-jk

By: Jeremy Bell

Jeremy Bell — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:54:04 +0000

Thanks Annabel – we tried to recycle as much of the house as we could… for instance, all of the windows (except the older bay window in the front) were removed and given away, the hardwood floors were taken up and given away, as were the carpets in the basement. We had contacted Habitat For Humanity, but they didn’t want our kitchen! I thought for sure they’d take it, but they didn’t.

As for the rest of the house, the various materials were also separated out during demolition—great care was taken to ensure the bricks and stone were free of all debris (they’d actually remove any nails and screws that they found), all of the metals were recycled and the rest of more or less thrown away.

We had looked into a full recycling program (where they’ll literally take the house apart brick by brick), but it was incredibly expensive

By: Annabel

Annabel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:16:58 +0000

What a great project and one I hope to attempt in the future. I will be reading with keen interest.

Jeremy, did much of the demolished house get recycled?

By: 10K in Rebates? Not exactly. | 360 Winnett Ave

10K in Rebates? Not exactly. | 360 Winnett Ave — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:25:43 +0000

[...] been contacted by CityTV a number of weeks ago about wanting to come and record the demolition of the house. After it went down, I was interviewed about the project and what we were planning. Of [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:09:03 +0000

That’s certainly not something you see every day in the city of Toronto. It really is amazing how much control these guys have when tearing down a building.