Category: demolition

This involved the removal of the rotten timbers of the rear deck, clearing away mucky soil and starting to remove the concrete block walls. I was hoping to find a Roman mosaic under everything, but alas no.

I did find quite a lot of old blue stone so we’ll use that for paths or garden walls in the future. The concrete blocks are a bit of a pain especially near the house as you can’t get a good swing of the 15 pounder, which might be a blessing in disguise as it’s hard work.

I know these videos aren’t very exciting but they give us something to look back on. All I have to do is set the camera up and forget about it, no need to go and grab a camera at key moments etc. By the way the cameras I use have a battery life of a few hours so to keep them running all day I have to use an ethernet cable (Power over Ethernet/POE) to provide the power. You will see the ribbon ethernet cable in quite a few shots. I have been using this product, there maybe better solutions but this works and I haven’t the time and energy to find an alternative. For these days jobs I should use a USB power pack, but for longer recordings POE will be handy.

The last ten seconds were filmed on Wednesday evening. We have had the skip for almost two weeks (which is really nice of Tom & Kingston Roll Offs), so I was trying to fill it up. It was taking too long to break up the concrete walls so I decided instead to remove the concrete block wall at the rear left of the garden, hence why you see me all over the place.

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Literally and the fourth skip to be filled!!! I rather like these skip/dumpster movies, even if they are a little disjointed. It’s like the worker bees going about their duties. We also like the cars that suddenly vanish and the moving shadow that the house casts.

The first thing that goes into the skip is our last piles of garden waste, poison ivy, and all (for now). If it looks like we are putting small sticks into the skip, then we are, those are the last of the hundreds of sapling trees we dug up. Next to go in was the rear stairs etc, followed by our rear patio excavation and lastly wall demolition.

Filling up these skips is a pretty good work out, digging, lifting, pushing, arms, legs, back, up and down steps etc. It’s nice in the evening just to feel that nice fatigue sleep slowly envelope you.

The skips/dumpsters are from Kingston Roll Offs, I have no complaints and the Tom the owner seems a great chap and always manages to maneuver the skip onto our drive way. Thanks Tom and thanks to the Major of Ponckhockie, Barry who introduced us.

By the way the two guys in white shirts that appear on the street at around 30 seconds are not having a boxing match as some viewers have suggested.