Interior Hazardous Materials & Recycling Assessment

insulation like this is that as soon as you tear this down the wind catches it and it blows away way to have that bat insulation is so much better than to have this loose stuff because I'm going to have to knock this down and then I've got to water it while I'm doing it but I've got to make sure that I'm getting water over every square inch of this demo as I'm going through it because as soon as any of that goes I'm creating a hazard to everyone around me let's walk outside real quick and see what we've got because we've got no ability to have this stuff floating around we've got houses right next door we've got houses across the street we've got more houses around the entire neighborhood and a business center right here so you can imagine knocking this down and having a spe having a installation flowing all over these guys home no we can't do that which just doesn't work out that way now there's something interesting about this house it's got a basement but it doesn't have an inside basement meaning that this little teeny tiny home they have to go outside to get down into their basement now in some areas where you're watching from that may not be a big thing in Minnesota here we normally have access to our basement because that's where we keep our furnace and if we ever want to walk downstairs and get at it to do any maintenance or repairs the last thing we want to do is get our tootsies cold and walk outside but that's what we're going to do the important thing that I look at before I walk outside the important thing I look at when I'm looking at the basement is sorry what is the basement made out of what are the blocks made out of this is absolutely monumentally important to understand now this is an older home I can already tell this is going to either have a rock Foundation basement a concrete masonry unit or a CMU basement but the last thing you want is a poured basement poured basements are very strong compared to a CMU or a rock Foundation basement a port basement is like night and day difference in fact when it comes to figuring out whether I'm going to be bidding it I have to allocate extra time in just to