4721 W 30th Avenue Is Underway: Demo Day Has Come

FlatGrass Development is excited to be officially underway with the construction process on our second project located at 4721 W 30th Avenue in the Sloan’s Lake Heights neighborhood of Northwest Denver. After months of back and forth on the financing front, we are full steam ahead. Nothing like the biggest financial meltdown in recent history to put a wrench in the schedule. The project is slated for completion by mid September and we’ll be keeping you updated through construction with weekly updates here on the blog.

Now for the fun part… demolition of the existing structure. Prior to demolition we salvaged anything of value that we could from the home. We now have a new bird house in the back yard to go with the garbage disposal from the former residence at 4230 Raleigh Street. We were able to salvage several hundred square feet of flagstone as well as a pile of pavers. The neighbor now has ample firewood for the coming winter as well as he salvaged the vast majority of the 3 trees that had to come down due to neglect and interference with the required shoring along the property lines.

Here is a shot of the front of theexisting house with our rendering of the new house visible on the sign to the left. While the existing house looks decent from the curb, the previous owner(s) remodeled it during the 1970’s and 1980’s and stripped all the original character from within. Add the visible tar stains on all the walls and ceilings from years of heavy smoking in the residence to the two awkward additions added to the home over the years and you can see why the home sat vacant for almost 18 months during and after the foreclosure process.

Here is the rig… not something to mess with by any means.

Below is a shot of the remains from the concrete bunker of a one car garage that stood at the rear of the lot. You can also see the funky bathroom and rear entry addition in all of it’s glory.

The backhoe doing damage. Once it was started, the house came down quickly.

An action shot of the front corner being demolished. The operator was able to work with very little clearance and keep the debris from damaging the fencing along the property line.

Pulling the front wall into the pile.

The last bit of structure getting brought down.

The debris pile. You can see the hose man watering everything down. this keeps the dust in check while the operator crushes the debris and ultimately loads it into the truck to be hauled off site.

Construction fencing and on site facilities should be delivered in less than a week. Once the city signs off on those two items we’ll be ready to have the shoring piers installed along the edges of the property and excavate for the basement.