Today was a highly productive one at The Thompson Condominium, our project at 2108 10th St NW. We started and mostly finished demolishing the existing house that was on the lot. The interior was gutted a few months ago (you can see that
here) but we had to wait several months to demolish the rest of the house. The original plan was to only do part of the demo by hand, and then finish with the heavy machinery. However, when we started, we realized that the space was just too tight between the buildings on either side to use a large excavation machine. We ended up knocking the building down the old-fashioned way- with hammers and manpower.
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| The first task was to build a temporary fence with plywood. This serves two purposes- to keep the dust and debris off of the sidewalk, and to keep unauthorized people from entering the site. This was at 11 AM this morning and you can see they were moving along- the roof is already gone. |
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| Instead of standing on the floor joists, which were resting in the brick, we set up scaffolding for safety. |
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| The house literally came down brick by brick, knocking each one out from the top down. |
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