Some years back i worked on a crew that was disassembling a wooden structure in New Jersey with the intent of rebuilding it in i think New Hampshire. I was not in charge, nor was i authorized to talk to the customer, i was only to assist with the 'carefull' demolition to a crew from CT. I had by this time been on a crew on a similar project moving a wooden building from Detroit to New jersey, which was completed elegantly and successfully.
The customer (who was the son of the owner of the house) had refused the cost of having drawings made, as well as the cost of us implementing a labeling system. So they labeled it them selves with a dark red crayon on old dark brown timbers, something on the order of '5' written on a rafter. They had a Sea Container to place it in, but did not want it stacked in any way, just jammed into it. They had no plan to manage the containers humidity.
I attempted to talk to the forman on the job about the various reasons what we were doing was a waste of time and money, and that there was no way that the end product would be a good thing. He refused to hear me over the chain saw that he was using to cut through the timbers he could not easily dislodge.
I have no idea if the customer ever tried to assemble to the building again, and i have of filed the whole experience as a job i wish i had not been a part of, and i try not to think about it.
-David Follett
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:11 PM,
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yep, thanks. Similar to Laing Stores...
Sent: Thu, Jul 7, 2011 5:25 pm
Subject: Re: [BP] query about restyling 18th C houses
In a message dated 7/7/2011 5:05:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Any old entity will do. House, barn, corn crib, etc.
LPC claimed salvage rights to two separate cast iron facades, one on Worth Street, lost both of them.
Does that count?
c
"Three weeks after a recent inquiry to the commission about the Thomas-Worth Street facades, its response was that it had never received any such facade."
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