DEMO DAY!!

May 3rd, 2022  - a day that saw a mixture of emtions as we watched our first family home reduced to rubble in a matter of a touch over 60 minutes. 

We got off to a normal start to our day with the digger not expected to site until mid-late morning. So the kids went to school with Amanda and I started work from home. We then got a text from the demo company mid morning advising the digger will arrive around 11 and it will get straight into demolishing the house shortly after that.

Amanda went and picked up the kids and I headed down to the house just after 11 to find the digger unloaded. I had a quick chat with Mark the operator while walking the site, then it was all systems go. Mark told me he'd go straight into the lounge due to lack of space on the lot, taking down most of the house before he started sorting the rubble into wood, metal, rubbish, etc.

He wasn't wrong. No sooner had he entered the digger and we were all ready, he punched the bucket of the digger straight through the front wall of the lounge, brought it out, punched it through the bay window and just like that the whole lounge room collapsed. From there, the digger kept making short work of walls, roof, air con ducting, tiling, wiring and whatever else stood in its way. 60 minutes later and 90% of our house is flattened. Video here: Our Demo

Imogen was a bit sad, Josh seemed excited and both Amanda and I had some mixed emotions, mostly excitment but a little bit of sadness to see our family home gone. Overall though, it's a necessary evil to enable us to build our dream home on our lovely block.

We left the crew from Preferred sorting out the rubble and took the kids back to school and I went back to work (from home). The photo on the right is how it looked at the end of the day 1. As you can see, it's a massive mess, there are a couple of small walls still standing and the team have started to sort the rubble into different piles.