Trying not to Demolish - the Sustainable Factor
Demolishing is pretty final and it’s a big shame to demolish a house that could be someone’s home.
Upon deciding to build we also decided to try to give our beach shack away. If anybody wanted it…
We put an ad in the Quokka online.
Weatherboard house going free if you take it away
We had about 8 emails expressing interest - mainly from folk that had a rural block of land. You can imagine how great it would be to have a wee house delivered…a home for the cost of the transport.
As it turned out with our shack it would most likely have to be split into 3 pieces for the journey.All fine but the problem came with the asbestos content. Cutting the house up was potentially risky with the prospect of asbestos fibres floating around.
So our great ethical plan was a no go.
Bit sad really. It would have been nice for the house to have lived on.
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Meta
November 18th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Hi Aussies, Love your accents. There is an alternative to demolition. I’m starting this in the states. . I hope this helps you.
Tom Canavan
http://www.thebenefactorproject.com
November 21st, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Looks interesting Tom. Do you have an asbestos problem over there - if so what’s the procedure? Can you still move the houses?
Emma
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:36 am
Here in the Colonies north of you guys we have the homeowner remove any asbestos before we take the houses apart and move them but the homeowners would have to do that anyway before demolition. They are still pleased with the facts that the houses get saved and they save their demolition costs. Hope that helps you guys.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:24 am
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