Preparing for a Demolition Project

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How to get started in demolition work

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Stan addresses how to prepare for a demolition job, focusing on waste management and maximizing profits. He advises understanding landfill policies (what they accept, what they don't, and their pricing structures, which can include flat rates). For typical house demolitions (1,500 to 2,500 square feet), two to three 40-yard dumpsters are usually needed for wood and general debris, while concrete/block foundations require two to three 10-yard dumpsters due to a 10-ton weight limit. He strongly recommends utilizing a 'turn and burn' strategy with dumpster companies, where a full dumpster is immediately replaced with an empty one, avoiding costs associated with half-full containers. Building a strong relationship with dumpster companies is essential for negotiating the best prices. For the demolition process itself, he advises imploding the house into its crawl space to contain debris, keeping the site clean and organized. Additionally, he warns about hazardous materials like vermiculite and asbestos, which must be removed separately according to regulations. Finally, he suggests maintaining a clean job site and proactively informing neighbors about the demolition activity by knocking on doors and providing business cards. This fosters good public relations and may lead to future referrals.

Goal: Effectively plan and execute a demolition project, including waste management and public relations.

Tools and materials

10-Yard Dumpster Various local providers — Disposing of heavy materials like concrete and block from foundations
30-Yard Dumpster Various local providers — Disposing of lighter, bulkier materials like wood and general construction debris
40-Yard Dumpster Various local providers — Disposing of lighter, bulkier materials like wood and general construction debris
Business Cards — Providing contact information to neighbors and potential clients

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and butter so the ways of just pretty much to maximize my profits you know when it comes to demolition when it comes to making sure I can estimate exactly how many cans I would need ways of basically separating the material sending the bridge to the clinic to the you know clean field to you know a place that you know using it you know crushed materials and sending all the you know wool it to the landfill that's its January and you are located where in Georgia you're located in Georgia how many jobs do you have coming up right now right now we should have five house demos coming up in the middle February all right this gives you approximately four weeks user to find out where the landfills are what they accept what they don't accept what their policies are you need you need to make sure that you know exactly where you're going and what to expect if you're gonna buy cans so cans to me cans mean dumpsters right okay so a can uh you're gonna use ten yard cans ten yard dumpsters for the foundation and you can use thirty and forty yard dumpsters for the wood you can't use thirty and forty yard dumpsters for them for the block foundation because they do have a ten-ton limit on a dumpster okay so don't go order in a 40 yard dumpster sticking all that concrete in it you're gonna find out from the place that they can't pick it up okay alright so that's the first thing so if you're just gonna use dumpsters a typical house will take two three 40 yard dumpsters that's a 1,500 to 2,500 square foot home all right and then you're gonna probably need two or three ten yard dumpsters for the foundation but you're gonna need well I don't know see that's for us we have basements here George you probably don't have basements so you wanna crawl spaces yeah so you're gonna order down an as-needed basis so you're probably going to start with one dumpster this is the way I do effect we're demoing a house today so I soon as I'm done interviewing you I interview another person I go out and I knock down a house so we have a we use that we have the recycling place on a on a call basis so when the first dumpster gets full they bring out another 40 yard dumpster drop it and they I call it turn and burn so they then they go on dropping one dumpster picking another dumpster up we fill it up and then we know as we're getting down on the pile if we want to go with 40 yards down to 30 dog do it 20 right we don't want to send a dumpster away half full because we're paying for that void because…

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