Weirdest Thing

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annr

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Yesterday, early afternoon, I walked past the house on the hill behind my house, and I saw workers completing a new roof installation, second one in 4-5 years.

A few hours later, looking out the window up the hill, the entire house on one side was demolished. No roof, no house. It looked like they were erecting new framing.

This AM, I see that the framing is gone--on one side of the house.

Background: this house has sat idle for a number of years and my impression was that someone purchased it and was rebuilding it. But adding a new roof and then tearing down the roof plus half the house almost immediately? I don't get it.
 
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Maximumbob54 said:
Mold? Termite damage?
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Certainly possibilities. But I'm asking myself why would they bother with a new roof and hours later demolish everything... seems logical to get termite and mold guys out there before adding new roof?

I was wondering if a building inspector could have come by and told them that they cant' just put up a new roof, the whole thing needs to come down.

The counter argument is that they have been working on this house for at least a year on and off...received a stop work order from building inspector...so maybe they are just crap builders.
 
Maybe the contractor made a mistake. Maybe the put the wrong roof on, maybe someone drove a work truck through a wall.
 
Maximumbob54 said:
Maybe they got the roof on and then started to gut the interior only to uncover disaster.
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I should have mentioned that the house was gutted! You could see right through the whole thing before they boarded it up for winter.

I guess what I'm concerned about is having to listen to construction all summer long! If they keep demoing and rebuilding..and going ass backwards.
 
Turned into a meth house while it was abandoned? I know cleanup from that is pretty in depth and if it was already gutted it may just be cheaper to start over from scratch.
 
No house or vehicle related damage or squatters. This "construction" has been ongoing for about a year. By nightfall yesterday, the house was nearly re-framed and the back wall (facing me) in almost fully back.
 
Could be someone missed something major in the blueprint during the rebuild and they had to rip open the framing to fix it. It happens.
 
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Could be that they missed something ...assuming there is a blueprint...or failed an inspection.

They have been reconstructing a badly neglected home. Previous resident aged quietly into senility with her 40 cats. The place was a wreck.

My common sense says they should have razed the building and started over. It's perched on an unusual lot atop a hill where razing may not be so cheap or easy.

Seems like we are in the 3rd or 4th iteration of this rebuild, so you can imagine my surprise when the roof is finally replaced, it's looking better, only to go back several stages. And there is no roof now, so when it rains the inside gets wet.

They are not here today. I've seen stop work orders on the door before. My hunch is that it is some guys are doing this in their spare time, trying to do it on the cheap to flip the house. Anyone serious could have rebuilt about 3x already.
 
In my town if you leave one wall standing, the permitting is vastly different than if you completely demo the house and rebuild. Could be related.
 
norcalAF said:
In my town if you leave one wall standing, the permitting is vastly different than if you completely demo the house and rebuild. Could be related.
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This has a certain logic to it, unlike their building pattern.

Initially they installed a full length sliding glass door, the kind you can walk through, on one side of the house---and was demo'ed the other day.

Today, I see they have added a second floor on one part of the house. (This is a rear window situation as my office window looks out on the hill with the house construction.)

Permits and money.
 
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It could be that the property is mortgaged and in order not to default on the mortgage agreement the house must always be considered in situ, so to speak.
 
Steven65 said:
It could be that the property is mortgaged and in order not to default on the mortgage agreement the house must always be considered in situ, so to speak.
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Good point! This house strattled 2 lots. 10–20 years ago Land Court advised me that they were redefining lot lines to allow an adjacent (empty) lot to merge with part of this lot to make room for an additional house.

There really is no way to move this house’s foundation unless it were razed. The house has no back yard —just a steep drop off, and no lateral room to spare with the new lot line.
 
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