It's a real eye opener when you see how fast things can be removed when you don't care about the damage.
I make half a fine living out of it.
Humans don’t believe me when I say my team and I can disassemble (I don’t like the word demolish*, half the stuff we use for temporary, emergencies or donate to Habitat For Humanity) a sixteen hundred square foot ranch style home and remove everything to the concrete slab in two days.
It just doesn’t take long to disassemble things. It takes time to put them together right and have everything fit. It takes zero time to remove them.
*I do laugh at the “Demo Day” stuff on TV.
It takes so much longer to smash everything into tiny bits with a sledge and use shovels to pick it all up.
They always have the nicest sawzall setting there, as some poor laborer is smashing the wall to splinters.
We cut our walls in half and stack them in the truck or container. They fit better, and create less dust, you don’t have to pull out wire or conduit. The big wire slides right out after you cleve the whole wall.
We recycle nearly everything.
When I pop CMUs(concrete block) with a bar and carry one in each hand out, the new bees stop smashing them up into the wheel barrow. Well, the smart ones do...
Of course my favorite part is building anew, where once stood blight and rot. Usually a factory steel building, unfortunately, we need stores and offices too.
But, I digress.
There is no replacement for plate steel and concrete. But as it stands, that only buys one the most time...
Everything can be disassembled.
Dang! Now I’ve got me paranoid about my safe.
Maybe I’ll build a pantry cabinet around it. Nobody steals cake mix, do they?
