The Randolph Street Tub Recovery

 
    This claw footed cast iron tub was harnessed and brought down to safety (while saving our backs).

Massive Pocket Doors - Circa 1920

These are massive! Dimensions to be posted later, as I am still recovering from the removal. They are from a house that is estimated to have been built between 1910-1920 in Greensboro, Georgia. These are incredible (and heavy), and the rollers are still operable!

One Man's Trash.....

NPR recently ran a story on Paul Burns, owner of FireClay Tile in northern California. Burns, a self described “scavenger,” is doing his part to recycle and help the environment, one toilet bowl at a time.

After working for years with recycled granite dust from California’s oldest granite quarry located next door to his tile business, Burns was contacted in regard to recycling porcelain toilets and other bathroom fixtures by a landfill outside San Jose.

After one year, the landfill had located 150 tons of porcelain toilets for Burns. These have been crushed down and incorporated into the clay mixture for creating new tiles.

Although he pays about the same per ton for this porcelain as he would for new clay, he says that working with new materials always provides a welcome challenge.

Please visit http://www.fireclaytile.com/products/list/category/debris/overview for more information on this ultimate scavenger!

Demolition vs. Deconstruction

Demolition vs. Deconstruction:


Demolish – verb - \di-ˈmä-lish\
1. a : tear down, raze
b : to break to pieces : smash
2. a : to do away with : destroy
b : to strip of any pretense of merit or credence

Deconstruct – verb - \dee-kuh n-struhkt\
1. to break down into constituent parts; dissect; dismantle.

At The Deconstructed House, we are working to make a distinction between demolishing and deconstructing the houses we encounter. As the definition indicates, to demolish something is to destroy it completely. In contrast, to deconstruct something is to break it down carefully in order to see the individual parts of the whole.

As a practice, the construction industry has viewed their job as demolishing the old to make way for the new. We are trying to reverse that trend and deconstruct the houses we encounter with the intent to reuse what we can.

We take the three Rs of conservation – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – and apply them to our everyday practice.

We hope to find like-minded people, both in the construction industry and without, who share in our mission. There are treasures buried in every house we enter, and something we find might just fit your vision or plan for a new use.

Keep checking in with us as we find these treasures every day and will have new products listed as they are found.

Solid Wood Single Panel Doors

Check out the cool single panel, solid wood door.  Took these off of a house built in 1954.  The doors are solid and should mak for a nice detail in any home!



Shutters, Shutters, Everywhere, Shutters!

Here's a great example of turn of the century shutters currently living on a house slated for demolition. Hopefully these will be available soon for purchase at The Deconstructed House.Com!

Blog, I love you......

This is one of my favorite blogs - what talent! http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/

Here are photos of one of her before and after projects that she features on her blog: