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Malibu Home Demolition

Bob Vila and Joe Fitzgerald discuss the roof types of surrounding homes and the possibilities for our house. They show the beginning of the demolition process on the roof so that it can be built up to support a barrel tile roof. Then Bob Discusses the Demolition of the rest of the home and what must be left standing so that the construction is a remodel rather than a complete tear down. Bob Also discusses the debris created by demolition and how it is disposed.

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" I guess what we've got is well our neighbor has an old roll roof job-- Yeah, one on top of here----"

" on top of there and then the next house that has been remodeled you can see that tan masonry [unk] that has been built around there"

" and has a--It has a build up roof section inside of that."

" Yeah, and that white one down there looks like a brand new job with a sky light system on the whole roof of transite panels"

" Yeah."

" Yeah. in the whole house that is probably pretty dramatic inside."

" I'd bet it is."

" And then of course looking across the street, you see a lot of houses that probably been from the"

" 60s."

" Up in the--"

" Yeah."

" up in the hillside."

" Yeah."

" Actually they're fun to built."

" Now, what's this building across the street from us directly?"

" Just all adobe building. That's the old Malibu city hall."

" It's actually brick isn't it?"

" It is also an adobe type of brick, yeah."

" Well, is it really?"

" Yeah."

" What I love is the roof. It's got the authentic barrel tile roof you know just like in the old mission."

" And that's what we're going to try and do on this house here."

" Sure."

" And you can see that they have the mud packing in between the tile"

" Sure."

" And stuff like that."

" What is that behind it, up the hillside?"

" That is a very modern structure that was built there. It's been for sale for quite awhile."

" I bet yeah. And then we got our neighbors house which I understand at one point belong to Michael Land?"

" That's correct."

" As I understand the same thing."

" This roof here is sort of an interesting item here. This is sort of an imitation, fake--"

" Well."

" tile."

" It is a pressed fiberglass product that looks like a barrel tile and very often it's the appropriate tile to use when you don't have sufficient foundation to carry the weight of a real barrel tile."

" I'm sure the weight was a consideration here. Their piles underneath that house are much smaller than the ones--"

" Yeah"

" underneath--"

" Yeah"

" this house."

" Now, let's talk about the roof on our little house here. This was a 1954 building."

" And what we have here is we have a 1 x 6 [unk]."

" Yeah."

" That is the original roof frame instead of plywood sheathing on the roof which one might think--"

" Right."

" Kept about 4 inches apart."

" Probably when this was built 1 x 6 is a lot cheaper than plywood. "

" It is an interesting roof because they have an overlay. They have the original cedar shade. They have an overlay of composition roof."

" Yeah."

" And they have overlaid it again with a hot-mop."

" No, it's just that the sheath roof was added on this way."

" [unk] is right."

" Now, these guys over there are just cutting right through all the layers."

" Yeah, we are going to take this real [unk] in section. This whole roof comes off the house. A job like this practically a teardown means tons of debris literally. We have to remove all this roofing material from the property as fast as we can. Our building lot here in Malibu is so small that we have no place to pile up the debris. Keeping up with the volume of waste material means several pick ups a day. And we contracted with a local waste management company to provide this service. Each one of these dumpsters will hold 40 yards of plaster and wood and torn and twisted metal. The company charges by volume not by weight. So it pays to pack the dumpsters as efficiently as possible. Although, most of this material will end up in the landfill, the state of California is pioneering the recycling of the waste products of remodeling. At our site, 1 dumpster gets picked up early in the morning and an empty one is left behind for an afternoon pick up. We'll do this for 3 or 4 days straight until our demolition is completed and the last broken timber is hauled away."

" Well Joe this is an incredible demolition crew, but are you sure they weren't supposed to save of these, I mean?"

" Well, not very much of it is going to be saved."

" This, this?"

" Teared all apart."

" This whole bedroom is gone and the ceiling is gone."

" That's right."

" And the walls are gone and the kitchen is gone, the bathroom is gone, the chimney is gone, the roof is gone, and why not just teardown the whole house and then build our California Spanish house from scratch?"

" If we do that along the beach area, we have a problem that we have to deal with the bureaucracy called the coastal commission."

" Uh huh."

" If we take the house down and essentially create a vacant lot it in increases the permit time considerably."

" Yeah."

" So, what we're doing here is considered a remodel."

" Yeah."

" Where you're going to take it down to just about 3 or 4 walls that will leave standing, and then we'll redo it and that will be a remodel. So we get permits much quicker, and we're able to move along you know that."

" Well some of what's staying up is pretty hefty. That's' quite a girth up there."

" It's a 6 x 14 beam that's a timber that is pretty common in this area."

" I suppose. And then those joist hangers that are up there pretty huge."

" Well, joist hangers are really unusual. They pretty much base the house. If you look at them closely, I think you'll see that they are about a 12-gauge piece of steel U hanger."

" Yeah."

" And today's construction, we use a lighter sheet metal shorter hanger. You gotta have this type of ventilation--."

" And now, the wall back there is pretty unusually framed."

" Well, it is unusual in the sense that what we've got in here these cut in blocks are like herringbone blocks. (unk) this 16 inches on the center."

" Yeah."

" And today's framing, the block could just be in a horizontal line."

" Yeah."

" With no minor cuts on the end."

" And that sway brace that angled the piece probably indicates that the sheathing on the house is just boards rather than plywood. "

" Well that's called a let-in brace fit provides 2 functions. One is to help plumbing line the framing as it goes along and also give a diagonal frame."

" But one thing is for sure, the original house was pretty well built."

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