Once we got rolling on the deconstruction, things went pretty well. I think we saved for reuse or repurpose most of the materials that had significant value. Studs, roof sections, red wood siding, flooring, wire, etc etc are all either sorted and stacked in the yard or stuffed into shipping containers....the rest, well, we'd hoped to find an on site waste grinder, but that proved fleeting. No one has attempted to bust through the on site roll off dumpster paradigm. We did haul off the unusable clean lumber for reuse as chip board, or OSB. The painted lumber and other waste went to the dump. The drywall, chimney bricks, and some fill dirt and concrete rubble from BVM went into the parking pit. Which is now a parking area missing the final grade fill and road base. Any metal, like nails, drywall corner metal, duct work, etc. went to the metal recycling bin, the insulation batts and wrap got to a dump, and the blow in fill insulation got saved for use as thermal mass [hot water] storage tank insulation.
Our plan now is to pull permits for the barn and the grading/foundation work. We will have our bids from the timberframe companies this week.
