HOUSE DEMOLITION IN PICTURES

One last picture, the morning of.

For whatever reason, they started with the back corner.  This is the dining room.

Look, it's the mudroom and the shelves from the other side, ha!  The person we offered them to took one but not these.

Then they tackled the front porch.  Yes, the rocking chairs are still there.  The bottoms had broken out and we used temporary wood to sit on them.  New house, new rockers!

It was starting to look so small.

Then the moved around to the other end of the house and the master bedroom...

Then the whole back of the house was opened up and taken out, the bathroom and guest room.

And then the whole thing came down...

This was the last bit standing, the bathroom.

Then it was just clearing up the pile of debris...

We noticed this in the debris, termite damaged support beams from under the house.  Can't tell if old or new but either way, this is what we were worried about if we had the house redone.  Halfway in, a contractor could have discovered this and then we would have had to replace all of them.

After a few hours it was almost all gone.

Then they hauled in sand and dirt and smoothed it all out and packed it down.

And just like that, 24 hours later, it was an empty spot, waiting for new dreams to be built!

BONUS DRONE PICS:

So when they started, we noticed that they were flying a drone.  We asked about it and the owner said he had just gotten it and was still learning how to use it and he figured he'd throw it up here and see how it worked.  He didn't take video (battery life) so it was pictures only and we asked if we could have a few of them.

Funny, in this picture we could see how many shingles we had lost over the last few windstorms, several dozen at least.

Then a couple photos as it was being cleared.

Very cool to see it from this perspective.

It as bittersweet but exciting to watch as our dreams really do start to come true.  Everything now is being reference in terms of "when we move to the new house..."

Let the building begin!