Cool Demo Job

Wolf

Anybody got any interesting demo jobs going on now? Any good pictures or stories?

dougchips

You are asking a day late. I just tore out a couple of closets yesterday to make two small rooms into one large room. The framers used over 30 studs for the two closets, some of the walls were all studs with no spaces.

Sorry no pictures.

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In_Mexifornia

I remodeled mall stores(Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, etc) for 3 years ab out 10 years ago. Those were cool. Anything that was in the store was going in the trash and you could keep it. I used to get all kinds of wood molding, beveled mirrors and glass, brass hardware, specialty lighting, cabinets . The demo crew would come in after the mall closed and they could have 3 stores ripped out in one night. The next day we were turning those 3 stores into one big store.

JumboJack

I worked on the old Rhino Records store in West L.A..Did a TI and made it into a Calico Corners,it was a bummer cause' the Rhino Records was kinda'
a landmark of sorts.If you have ever seen "One hit wonders" on VH1 they shot it there...Anyway.We had the same deal at demo time...I found some high end audio made by Niles Audio.A pair of speakers and a realy nice speaker selector/control and a mile of speaker wire and mike cords.

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JonM

I ripped apart :

A bank vault...The funny thing about it was...the vault door took me a week to cut down with a torch...but the walls were made out of terracotta block...

semisatanic1

I am working on the new 2012 olympic village site in London, UK!
Its a 4 square mile construction site that is just finishing the demolition of over 600 buildings!
You have never seen a job like!
There are more long reach machines here than i have ever seen in one place including a 120 ton Hitachi with a telescopic 200ft boom!
I have attached a picture!
In the dark the place looks like the worlds biggest rave with the hundreds of flashing beacons

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Cole

Pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

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Wolf

Awesome Olympic Village shots. Post some more pictures, if you can!

Cheers.

jeepguy88

600 buildings? that sounds like a very pricey construction site.

dragstripracer

Well I had a nightmare last year in Ft Myers. It was a new outdoor mall and we took it over as a vanilla box. For reason I have no clue on, the LL had put an acoustical cieling in. The LL turned it over to us and we started to demo it. Then only to realize the mechanical had not been finaled yet. I could not legally start until the building had is CofO. I spent a week waiting on an inspection just to demo it out that same day.

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grizl

Wow that London job seems amazing. Large scale. I just got done doing the demo on a Krispy Kreme. It was fun because the building was only two years old. Basically a new coffee donut shop we got to gut out. A nice no pressure job and we got to keep anything inside we wanted. Next week will start phase two. An addition to one side of the building. They started pouring the foundation today.

Blackcloud

we kinda ran into something like that years back building a bank. somebody shut the vault door, which left us unable to get inside. the vault guys told us that it would take us 3 days to get inside. Acore was inside in about a hour.

MattK

I know the london post was 18 months ago but additional pictures would be great. Hes only posted twice, so i am sure he has long forgotten about CT.

digdeep516

hows about a bank vault... encased in 6 feet of concrete

Golden Gate

Having the right tool for the job helps.

Warren

Working on a remodel/addition where the original engineer called out a 1400 pound steel beam, buried in the joists, above a finished living room, extending past an interior finished wall. We got a new engineer and reworked the structure. With a remodel, you kinda wanna work with what you have as much as possible. We probably would have needed to remove a sizable portion of the roof to install that original beam. Open a whole can of worms with that.

CINEMASUPER

Renovating 8 screen movie theater, demo-ing 900 seats, curtains,
floors and concession area. The seats smell like a landfill with spiders,
roaches and mice living in the auditoriums.