When the demolition started it looked like a bomb had gone off inside Huron. Messy messy messy. Getting inside was a challenge but for the sake of history I picked my way through the wreckage and took some photos.
They got rid of everything down to the studs which meant there was a lot of debris to haul out of the house.
This toilet was not always right inside the front door. I swear they moved it there from somewhere else.
Here you're facing the front door and you can see the backside of the stairs. They left that ceiling fan in as long as they could because that was the only working light in the building.
This is the living room area looking into what used to be the kitchen. What. A. Dump.
They sorted everything and took out the various materials in stages. They hauled off a lot of the lumber already, this round was scrap metal and garbage.
The demo took about twice as long as originally planned. I've stripped wallpaper before, only to find 3 or 4 more layers underneath. These guys were pulling off drywall and finding extra layers of walls underneath. For a small house it was a deceptively big job.
So how did they do it? With wheelbarrows and elbow grease. Then,once they took out the windows, they were able to pull a dump truck up over the sidewalk, straight to the front of the house and load out directly through the hole in the wall.
Then they would re-board up the window holes at the end of the day. Better safe than sorry, you never know who'd want to sneak into a vacant house at night and steal chunks of plaster.
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