House Demolition, Woodmont Avenue
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An excavator demolishes a house at the corner of Woodmont Avenue and Edgemoor Lane in Bethesda, Maryland. It is being razed to make way for a new apartment building with 154 units one block from the subway stop.
Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".
@rameshshankar1010 3 жыл бұрын
Heart bleeds seeing such beautiful structure being brought down
@fnhwk 6 ай бұрын
It's nothing special
@mathias6528 4 жыл бұрын
great video. however i tend to agree with the others who commented. what a waste of a beautiful house, and for an apartment building? a shame!
@MIGASHOORAY 4 жыл бұрын
Its all about the money ,my present wife a philippina is going for my house I paid for JUST PURE GREED. 1 house = a few town houses..
@jgallardo7344 4 жыл бұрын
It’s not helpful to anyone when that one house is unaffordable
@randomdudev237 4 жыл бұрын
At the end of the day, there getting payed
@paulthesoundguy1 3 жыл бұрын
Progress......it’s has been this way since the romans and the Greeks BUILD NEW COVER UP OLD.......STOP WHINING.....ITS ALSO THE AMERICAN WAY
@joemcconnell2674 3 жыл бұрын
Probably tore it down! To build the same high rise luxury apartments around the old house. Them apartments around the house look like they have just been built.
@trr5291 3 жыл бұрын
Destroying beautiful old homes to build crappy apartment buildings.
@pauloconnor2980 3 жыл бұрын
As Ned Kelly said :Such is life.
@topixfromthetropix1674 3 жыл бұрын
Let's say you own that property and the house is worth $250,000. Without even considering maintenance and allowing for a $2000.00 a month rental fee, in two months after the new construction, the owner is already making money and with the more valuable property he now has, he can leverage other projects.
@PorkPieNews Ай бұрын
@topixfromthetropix1674 why not sell the house cheap and have them move it? At least give someone the opportunity.
@trr5291 Ай бұрын
@PorkPieNews This is the disposable society we live in, unfortunately.
@barrysmith4588 4 жыл бұрын
20 mins in: "ok boss, thats 71 woodmont flattened" boss: " i said 21 woodmont"
@culle6522 3 жыл бұрын
:-)))))) yeah babe
@paulkelly1702 4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful skills of the Operator Engineer and the power of the machines. Poetry in motion. Sorry to see the house go too.
@dragonvalo 3 жыл бұрын
this is the reason the uk is running out of family houses, just like in the us we have demolished wonderful homes and apartment buildings and replaced them with shoe boxe houses and death trap high rises.
@sebfannumber1 4 жыл бұрын
I've been a "sidewalk superintendent" all my life and these are the best demolition videos I have ever seen! More please!!!
@wolfiewolfification 4 жыл бұрын
Love how he pushes the last part at 17:30. that is killer. great operator by the way
@TheSwords99 4 жыл бұрын
Stop tearing down beautiful older homes!!!
@curtyanok6878 3 жыл бұрын
It's disgusting to see this. I'm not too well off and could use a nice home to live in for a decent price instead of tearing it down. GRRRRR!!!!
@786otto 4 жыл бұрын
It was a nice house.Slate roof was worth a fortune and would outlast those new buildings.
@troynichols4878 3 жыл бұрын
That was a beautiful brick house
@b21playa 4 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing that nothing is recycled beforehand. The slates looked like new
@daviddowling9830 4 жыл бұрын
b21playa recycling in this case is just not cost effective,sadly.
@billbowers268 3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful home ! What a waste to tear it down
@AlexschnuckY 4 жыл бұрын
Wie kann man nur so ein wunderschönes Haus einfach platt machen!? Unfassbar!!! Andere hätten sich gefreut, in so einem schönen Haus wohnen zu dürfen.
@mickbaker2483 4 жыл бұрын
Some one go tell the Hitachi driver he's just ripped down the wrong house.
@kendalkenny1843 4 жыл бұрын
A nice home huh..
@nancyweliczko9334 4 жыл бұрын
So sad that a beautiful home was destroyed to make room for apartments or a parking lot.
@nancyp7301 4 жыл бұрын
Apartments, look at the description.
@nancyweliczko9334 4 жыл бұрын
@@nancyp7301 I said apartments and with apartments parking lots usually follows.
@JohnZWetmore 4 жыл бұрын
@@nancyweliczko9334 Parking will be underground. Land in this area is too valuable for surface parking.
@zone47 4 жыл бұрын
I saw a homeless guy at the end of the expressway today, I'll bet he would have liked that place. What could have been so wrong with that house that they had to tear it down? You can't get a real brick house anymore, everything is cheap veneer. Apartments ... it's all about the money.
@1chish 4 жыл бұрын
No recycling, no dust prevention....
@kendalkenny1843 4 жыл бұрын
Damn that was a nice home.
@pauloconnor2980 3 жыл бұрын
I love that bit @ 17:22. This guy really knows his trade.
@odivarela9147 4 жыл бұрын
Damn couldn’t they have tried to salvage the windows and brick for repurposing what a waist of material SMH 🤦🏻♀️
@MichSignMan 4 жыл бұрын
Get your pickup... Let's go pick up some bricks for our home ;)
@nancyp7301 4 жыл бұрын
They are old wood windows. Salvaging brick is very expensive.
@melcofrans 4 жыл бұрын
Here in the netherlands the windows get removed all the wood is taken out sometimes the roof is dismantled and then the concrete and bricks are broken down they remove all the isolation and other junk in a big machine and the bricks and concrete is used as gravel so it can be done
@ctiley2212 4 жыл бұрын
@@melcofrans that's too intelligent for Americans, they only know how to destroy.
@dallas3124 4 жыл бұрын
In Scotland we would remove the slate from the roof before demolition
@cesarzarate6843 3 жыл бұрын
Its amazing how you pay thousands of dollars for your house for many years and its destroyed in hours
@genedameier8746 4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful House gone replaced by an Ugly Apartment Building.
@johnfoltz8183 4 жыл бұрын
Cheap cardboard and sawdust apartments that looks like a faux pas town center thing.
@nancyp7301 4 жыл бұрын
Its called supply and demand.
@dean-gm1lg 4 жыл бұрын
It's called greed and keep demolishing perfectly good buildings is not only a waste of money it's also bad for the environment
@nancyp7301 4 жыл бұрын
@@dean-gm1lg Supply and demand. I am not a commie. Its a free market economy.
@chrismoyler 4 жыл бұрын
When I was a child, in the 50's, much of the materials in a house were reused
@youngillinoisan4270 4 жыл бұрын
Chris Moyler I wish it was still like that, but now all they build with is plywood, such a shame.
@peon9282 3 жыл бұрын
In Europe (especially Germany, Switzerland), they usually remove all interior, asbestos, wood, windows, isolations on the outside and sometimes even the whole roof and wooden ceilings before the excavator starts. So only Concrete and Bricks are left, and there‘s still enough to pick out the debris (bits of wood, rebar and metal). Demolition technique in the US is lacking far behind, it already starts with the excavators not having a full hydraulic quick coupler (oilquick)
@PreservationEnthusiast 3 жыл бұрын
@@peon9282 This building was not brick/block/concrete though. It was timber frame with brick cladding so a different technique needed. It may have been possible to separate some of the brick by peeling it off first, but the US way seems to be to smash the while lot and segregate materials later. Either that or landfill!
@agentx7138 4 жыл бұрын
No strip out? Wiring wood tiles the hobo in the back room?
@milehighkit4725 4 жыл бұрын
Dust mitigation?
@thefinecoolguy 3 жыл бұрын
like imagine you go shopping for 1 hour and it takes 1 hour to tear down the house and clean it up
@lachlanslightsandfans 4 жыл бұрын
Love these video keep making them
@JohnZWetmore 4 жыл бұрын
When I spot a doomed building before it has been turned into a hole in the ground, I'll video it and add it to the collection.
@lachlanslightsandfans 4 жыл бұрын
Cool
@avtpro 3 жыл бұрын
The curtains still on the windows?
@adrianoleuzzi2217 4 жыл бұрын
Bravi! Ottimo lavoro. Ora occorre separare bene i materiali di risulta e smaltirli adeguatamente.
@lamvespa1 3 жыл бұрын
Makes me sick !!!
@tedbryer2512 4 жыл бұрын
God-- Im glad I live in the country! What a waste! I could never live like a rat in a cage like that! This was really heartbreaking to watch!
@kendalkenny1843 4 жыл бұрын
I agree 10 times better then my home...but I wouldn't change being in the country...
@petesy03 4 жыл бұрын
Have built brand new houses that don’t look as good as this house, WTF????
@jeromewysocki8809 4 жыл бұрын
Petesy , maybe that's the problem. This house looked too good. It therefore had to go. How dare anyone live in a good looking house? (Just being sarcastic here. 🙂).
@joemcconnell2674 3 жыл бұрын
I think the reason it got tore down! Because it looked out of place. Because if you look at the house it's surrounded by apartments! It does look out of place. They probably want the whole area with apartment blocks. So nothing looks out of place.
@culle6522 3 жыл бұрын
oh no this is a biutiful house !!!! my heart cry !!!
@MichSignMan 4 жыл бұрын
Pitiful.... Purely Pitiful....
@FFDGFDOFD 4 жыл бұрын
why.......
@joedefloat7802 3 жыл бұрын
No separation of materials on that job .
@TheRealLink 4 жыл бұрын
Sorry to see such a well built, sturdy house go, but as is typical in city centers and as others said, yeah probably more valuable to put an apartment building there.
@nickmad887 4 жыл бұрын
thanks
@BRI33NOR 4 жыл бұрын
What no water spray to keep dust down ?
@Mrfort 4 жыл бұрын
Did see a couple of hoses?
@JohnZWetmore 3 жыл бұрын
There was no water hose on this job. So there was a lot of dust.
@jonnyteeee 2 жыл бұрын
Best Demo Driver ever!!! He got the job Done!!!!! No messing about here!!
@yraay 3 жыл бұрын
How bout those operator skills! I especially liked the end when he grabbed the roll-off dumpster and pulled it over a little bit. We're not quite done yet!
@yraay 3 жыл бұрын
That driver with the skills isn't necessarily a man...I'm learning and hopefully teaching at the same time!
@stevegray5263 3 жыл бұрын
20 minutes smashing it down, 2 weeks sorting the different waste materials!
@zombiegirlfanter5569 4 жыл бұрын
Thats cool at the end.he was like screw it.knock the whole side down.lol
@brentcompton2381 3 жыл бұрын
I bet there alot of burned out house in the projects to be torn down. There's whole ares that are a street long of vacant house that are rotten down .That way they build some better place for people to live.
@bettyprice6316 4 жыл бұрын
Oh my! Such a powerful machine.
@SnowDog080 3 жыл бұрын
Operator knew what he is doing!
@ingemarlarsson5958 4 жыл бұрын
Wtf...so Nice house ..
@alanspagnolia9474 3 жыл бұрын
Totally satisfying !!
@davidbutterworth5258 3 жыл бұрын
What an utter waste of an attractive house.
@jameslindley8318 4 жыл бұрын
All busted up to matchwood !!! no recycling that lot
@rangerstormlucky9862 4 жыл бұрын
The beautiful House 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭Why? I do not understand that?
@chrisdecanio1055 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing, isn't it? It takes many skilled craftsmen, years to build & it is gone in a matter of hours.
@MIGASHOORAY 4 жыл бұрын
My x wife sold the house we lived in for many years the new owners have 15 units on my old home now.while i,m old and almost broke..
@milleb17020 4 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
@richardhancock2771 4 жыл бұрын
I told you to blow the bloody doors of not to pull it down
@milleb17020 4 жыл бұрын
The x-wife got the house in divorce settlement. But I got the property, so I shipped the house to her. Assembly video included, just play in reverse. Did I mention she got the car also.... Part2 coming soon..
@lincolnlane9235 4 жыл бұрын
All of that beautiful aged wood and masonry - gone.
@jeromewysocki8809 4 жыл бұрын
Lincoln Lane , and to make sure it's gone and can never be used again, it is torn apart and smashed. What amazes me is that wood this good is hard to get these days at a lumber yard. Perfectly straight lumber, such as used in this house's construction
@leofalco6738 4 жыл бұрын
Perché ?
@bjornbroder8205 4 жыл бұрын
Das schöne Haus 😥
@SebastianSteele 3 жыл бұрын
That beautiful house reduced to a pile of rubble, a shame really
@jasinere35 4 жыл бұрын
slate is a valuable thing they should have took the slate off & salvaged the floorboards along with all the stud walls instead of destroying the lotI worked at a reclamation yard & its amazing how fast reclaimed wood & roof slate sells
@jeromewysocki8809 4 жыл бұрын
jason adams , especially true about reclaimed wood. Seems that you can't find good straight lumber, like the type used in this house, in a lumber yard any more.
@lightningdemolition1964 4 жыл бұрын
It might sell well but how much do you pay the demolition company to bring them in. There has to be enough money in it to make it worthwhile to reuse the material.
@nickbeam5432 4 жыл бұрын
The big bad wolf huffed and puffed and blew the house down.
@jamessmith-wy8eg 4 жыл бұрын
what a total waste of a good house.
@pauloconnor2980 3 жыл бұрын
is the apartment building to the right of screen also going?
@JohnZWetmore 3 жыл бұрын
No, it will be staying. It was built to the maximum allowed by local zoning.
@spaghetti9845 3 жыл бұрын
for sale, brick house.. great neighborhood. Needs work
@justinhenry8745 4 жыл бұрын
It's a fucking shame that they tare down beautiful homes
@peterbrown404 4 жыл бұрын
Discussting waste of goods so much for the environment and savings the planet
@lightningdemolition1964 4 жыл бұрын
There are so many comments on these types of videos saying the house was perfectly good or they are just putting up cardboard apartments. If you don't have personal knowledge of these situations it doesn't make sense to put them down for their decisions to get rid of a building. I have done a lot of buildings where once you see the inside you realize the building can't be saved. Sometimes it's water damage, mold, rot or termites that make it look fine on the outside but not liveable. Or the concrete or brick foundation can be so broken up that it is not economical to fix it. People who make comments about the recycling might have a point but the contractor makes an economic decision of comparing the sales value of the used material to the huge labor cost, time, and safety factors. As far as the supposition that garbage apartments will be put up on its place that doesn't make sense. It will be replaced with a structure that will house many more people, increase density so hopefully there will be less traffic on the roads, and blend in with the rest of the neighborhood. Get rid of the past to make way for the future.
@garfstiglz3981 3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately you’ve just made everyone’s point. It’s all about money with people who carry our demolition or buy land even if the building can be saved or repurposed.
@sic3569 3 жыл бұрын
If you don't separate brick/concrete from garbage you will be paying some very expensive dump fees
@stevenberkoski6825 2 жыл бұрын
Why weren't the obvious Asbestos Transite Shingles on the front dormer a concern?
@BWP202 4 жыл бұрын
She locked me out for the last time
@justinhenry8745 4 жыл бұрын
I don't know how many times my mom locked me out of the house when I was growing up
@daviddowling9830 4 жыл бұрын
Used to be a nice cozy neighborhood,that house new probably sold fo $35,000.00.Bethesda is destroyed.
@ingemarlarsson5958 4 жыл бұрын
Shame on them do so for some one house...
@petermcgreevy6386 4 жыл бұрын
No dust suppression here
@Tom-Lahaye 4 жыл бұрын
A well built house demolished to put a cardboard apartment building in its place.
@jeromewysocki8809 4 жыл бұрын
Tom Lahaye , I guess they call that progress.
@michaelhaiden6718 3 жыл бұрын
If I was a neighbor there I would shut it down until they got some dust control going
@clementhuppe227 4 жыл бұрын
le gros méchant gars a démolie ma maison !
@jamescampbell7780 4 жыл бұрын
Skilful operator taking no prisoners!!
@peteneal5914 Жыл бұрын
i kant get my head round this what a stunning well looked after house what a crime to do this to it this house was well built and to do this to it and it would of been worth tens of thousands its beyond me i kant understand any logic
@yurim2000 2 жыл бұрын
Курятник - стены толщиной 0.5 кирпича!
@austinaubinoe 3 жыл бұрын
The holdout house
@panzerdozer 3 жыл бұрын
First demo video I seen with a pretty good operator....all these demo videos the operators came from McDonald's I do believe
@jameslindley8318 4 жыл бұрын
NAH !!
@crocheting-around-the-planet 4 жыл бұрын
Just saw Will Smith running up the stairs!🤖🤣
@owlinthewood 4 жыл бұрын
😂
@daleleibfried8648 3 жыл бұрын
Looks good from the outside but there are reasons this happens. Never know what the inside is like or in the walls(rot, mold, ect) . There are many reasons this happens, right or wrong 🤔
@JohnZWetmore 3 жыл бұрын
In this case, the land was worth more than the house. It's a block from the Metro station, and they are putting up a tall apartment building like the one next to it.
@Im__A__Fan Жыл бұрын
17:18 What you came for
@osmannuriozmann3669 3 жыл бұрын
He ripped thru that, in 1/2 hour, if he was charging h hourly rate, does that mean it’s 1/2 price for his labour?
@pf-scottied0g969 4 жыл бұрын
I'm sure the local trash company appreciated them demoing the house on top of the rental trash can behind the house. Lazy workers couldn't even be bothered to pull it out to the side of the road. Not a big deal, but typical of how lazy and wasteful our society is today.
@JohnnyConcrete67 4 жыл бұрын
Recycling? What's that...........?
@TranslinkOnRoblox 2 жыл бұрын
0:20 the is getting demolished
@Fuzzbrain61 3 жыл бұрын
A nice old house - what a waste!
@triedzidono 4 жыл бұрын
I get the land needed re purposing, shame we cant just pick these houses up & drop them somewhere else. WHat a lovely house. Oh, oh dear. I say lets build airships that can be hovered down and hook onto a steel frame bolted to the house, lift these gems elsewhere. Of course this would be dangerous and a bad idea and cost more than moving it brick by brick. So sad to see it go so aggressively. But also kinda cool, in a sad way.
@guenterhagen4110 3 жыл бұрын
völlig intaktes Haus wird abgerissen... OMO...
@sydsyd 4 жыл бұрын
Money talks!
@Eccoriens80 3 жыл бұрын
C'est un gaspillage de détruire une aussi bonne maison ! Les ardoises du toit étaient de belle qualité. Que ne ferions nous pas pour gagner ... un peu plus d'argent ?
@nickruark3693 2 жыл бұрын
Sad.
@briananderson8733 3 жыл бұрын
Are you sure you got the right house? ....... Oh no it was the next house over... Oh well. Better luck next time....that would be funny!
@ibelieveyou2066 3 жыл бұрын
Rest of world:Most of that can be recycled.America:Tear it all down,quick.Recycling what does that mean?Just bury it.
@1834RestorationHouse 3 жыл бұрын
What a waste of a perfectly good house.
@R08ERT 4 жыл бұрын
The guy operating that hitachi excavator must have a buzz for knocking down That house and not recycling wood and roof slates and building bricks Most of that house can be reclaimed and reusable Shame on him
@anthonyjames4416 4 жыл бұрын
The operator is doing his job. Shame on the owner.
@bamahama707 4 жыл бұрын
Not in THIS country...
@Nash1a 4 жыл бұрын
If anyone cared, they would have left it intact in place.
@jeromewysocki8809 4 жыл бұрын
Nash1a , yes but they don't have the authority to make that decision, unfortunately.
@user-eo6rn4eb8u 4 жыл бұрын
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