Dmax Consulting

I have just bid on doing some demolition work. This is a government contract and it seems that we are going to get it. I have never done this before so I would be open to any advice you guys have in this type of work.

Here is what the job entails:

We have 40 student housing/ apartment style buildings. They are only 2 stories and have regular a-frame roofs with a minor pitch (approx. 30-40 degrees). The buildings are all brick.

For whatever reason, the city wants the roofs removed separately from the rest of the buildings. All of the waste needs to be put into dumpsters and removed from the site. This is my job. I am considering renting an escavator with a thumb to get the big stuff off the roof and put into the dumpsters and using my crews to take the rest of the stuff off the roofs by hand with tools.

This seems pretty straight forward, but I would like to get others' thoughts and advice.

Thanks.

Daniel

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rustyjames

The city probably wants you to keep the brick and the wood from commingling for recycling purposes. I'm not sure about how much reach you're going to get with an excavator, but the thumb is the ticket for munching the stuff up for the containers.

Bob Kovacs

So you're a painter who won a decent-size demo contract, the city wants the roofs separated from the rest of the waste, but you didn't think to ask why, and you're asking for advice now- after the bid went in and was accepted???? Sounds like a winner to me..............