Roof Removed

Today the demolition people had the roof removed and preparing for all asbestos panel removal on Monday.

Roof and installation removed

Panels removed

Near skeleton of the house

Finally some Demolition work

Finally we have some work being carried out for the demolition.

Looks like to do a clean job, so no asbestos is left on the land, the panels are being stripped manually by hand and disposed of correctly.

Just visited the site and he showed me how the builders have used small off cuts of asbestos to hold things in place behind gyprock and wood panels. Using heavy machinery before removing those tiny pieces will leave the soil contaminated. He said, with his experience of demolishing building of this era, he has to take the time to do them manually.

According to the guy, they will have the site ready by next Wednesday (10/10/2012).

P.S. I was still not happy that they delayed the process for nearly a week.

Demolition started

Visited the old house yesterday and the power line has been disconnected.

Looks like the internal dismantling will be done today, getting it ready for knock-down next Tuesday (due to long weekend public holiday on Monday).

I was hoping the process was a bit quicker, since we booked the demolition 4 weeks ago, but they had delays. I'm not 100% happy with it as when booking, they said it will take no more than 1 week.

Empty house

Well, we moved out of the house over the weekend. A back-breaking task. We had to make 2 trips with the  "2 men & a truck" to move all our "staff".

It will be a cosy living of 6 months, moving from 3 bedroom house to 1 bedroom unit, having only beds and clothes, rest all in storage.

Also, no TV or Internet, yikes! We will have "Internet Withdrawal Symptom" soon. LOL.

I hope the demolition people will get their act together and start work by Tuesday and by Thursday start dismantling the house and ready for Masterton next week.

Demolition CDC Submitted

The company doing our demolition has now all the files to submit for CDC approval. We have paid deposit and CDC approval fee. I expect we will receive the approval by end of this week.

Commencement date getting closer

We have now paid the demolition people the deposit and a tentative start date of 24th of September. It will be back-breaking and very busy few weeks trying to pack the final essential "staff" still in our house.

Here is a great section from the greatest stand up comedian` George Carlin, talking about "Staff". Enjoy.

The Commencement Letter from the bank should be posted on Monday (10/9/2012), after small delay the bank had to make, to chase up and follow up on some paperwork from Masterton, even though I had already provided them with 3 weeks ago!

Neighbours have been notified of the house construction to start in the next few weeks.

We hope pegging and land scraping will start the first week of October.

Final plans arrived!

Got the final plans last night. Will be signing them today and post.

Not sure if we were supposed to get the electrical and plumbing as well, or we do not need to worry about them?

Still includes plans for the above ground rainwater tank. I asked Masterton to see if we still need them or remove it from the plans.

Demolition is booked for the week of 24th of September.