DIY Demolition Is Not The Route To Affordable Home Renovations
Posted on: 5 July 2016
An old, dilapidated house will need major renovations before it's considered a suitable habitat for you and your family. The costs involved in bringing a dilapidated house back to life are often prohibitive. This prompts many homeowners to look for practical avenues through which they can bring down the cost of the renovation.
DIY demolition of internal walls, floors and countertops is perhaps the most popular route to a more affordable renovation. If you're not the DIY-minded type of homeowner, here are two things you can do to save on the cost of renovation.
Deconstruct, Don't Demolish
Total demolition of a dilapidated house (often referred to as a teardown) is often not necessary unless the structural integrity of the house has been compromised severely (e.g. large-scale water damage within the foundation).
Deconstruction is perhaps a better alternative if the structure of your house is still in good shape. The difference between deconstruction and demolition is that there's a deliberate attempt to salvage valuable building materials (e.g. wooden doors, window panes/frames and even lighting fixtures). These materials are detached from the structure of the house in a systematic manner such that they're left as intact as possible. With a typical demolition, salvaging of materials is often done after the demolition exercise (at a landfill or at a demolition waste recycling facility).
Deconstruction allows you to effectively re-use salvaged components of the old house when building the new house. As such, you're likely to spend less on building materials for the new house.
The Truck-Mounted Mobile Skip
The storage and disposal of demolition/deconstruction wastes is likely to inflate your renovation budget by a significant percentage.
You might need to hire more than one skip bin because you're not allowed to mix concrete wastes with other types of waste from the demolition/deconstruction. Secondly, you'll need a permit to place skip bins in public areas (e.g. footpaths) during the demolition/deconstruction. Your local council might also charge you if the bin is to remain on the footpath for an extended duration.
You can avoid some of these costs by hiring a truck-mounted mobile skip bin. The truck-mounted skip is considered a road registered trailer. No permit is required (and no fees are charged) to place a road registered trailer in a public place. Perhaps you'll only need to worry about the parking restrictions in your locality.
Additionally, truck-mounted skip bins are often lockable. This eliminates the possibility that people will dump trash into your skip bin illegally if the trailer is parked in a public area.
For more information about your bin hire options, contact a local company.
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