These photos come from our own jobs. We describe the technique and what can be seen in each image; we do not add details that the photo does not show.
For our clients' privacy, the location and date of each job are not published. The descriptions are limited to what the photo itself shows.
Hand demolition on a roof
Roof layers are removed by hand because the roof slab cannot take the weight of a machine and the work is at height. The breaker takes off the finishing tiles and mortar bed strip by strip, which keeps the open area small and lets the rubble be bagged as it comes off.
Roof strip-out
Stripping a flat roof down to its slab is a layered job: finishing, bedding, waterproofing and insulation come off in sequence. Working as a team of three lets one person break, one bag and one clear, so the debris never accumulates on the roof.
Before
This is the starting point of a house demolition: a single-storey brick building with a pitched tiled roof and a covered porch. The skip is positioned before work starts so that material removed by hand from the inside can be loaded straight away.
During
Selective demolition means separating materials as they come off, not afterwards. In this photo the timber from the roof structure and the brick from the walls are already in separate piles, which is what the waste law asks for and what an authorised waste manager expects to receive.
Machine clearance
Not every job stays manual. Once the interior has been stripped and the building is to be cleared, a machine takes over the heavy rubble. Here an excavator works on brick rubble from an old building while the basement walls remain in place, which is the point where interior work hands over to mechanical demolition.
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