We got asked to demolish a small 3 bedroom house in Parkhurst. The client wanted to demolish the house and then use the rubble to build up the platform for his new house. This proved to be a more cost-efficient exercise, saving on rubble removal and using the rubble to generate fill to raise the platform. The house itself was condemned as lateral and vertical cracks ran throughout the building and we had to strip the house with a fair amount of care. Access was very limitied through a narrow gate, which we had to modify to get the TLB in.
Size: 400m3 demolished volume.
The house, gutted and vandalised
Starting the demolition works, breaking down the walls by section
House down, removing foundations and getting ready to start blending the rubble with good, compactable soil
Blending the soil with the crushed up rubble Placed in layers and then compacted
Compacted layers of blended rubble and fill material
Platform raised to desired level ready for builders
