Usually workmen hang a heavy curtain around the property line before they tear down a house. That keeps the dust from spreading. These workmen put the poles but didn't put a curtain. We can see the laundry hanging from the line on the balcony of a neighboring apartment.
Also, note how thin the walls of this house were. That is an outside wall of the house. There was a piece of wood on the outside of that slatted piece. Then plywood with wall paper on the inside of the house.
The machine that broke the house also loaded the pieces onto the back of a truck. In this photo, pieces of the tin roof are being loaded. See the man standing in the bed of the truck? Click to enlarge the picture and you can see the vegetable stand man standing by. Dangerous!
The pieces of tin were crushed with the crane and then wood from the house was stacked on top.
They tore down the fence and the trees, too.
November 20, 2009
Tearing Down the House part 2
Posted by Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu at 1:17 PM
Labels: building a house, houses, November in Japan, October in Japan, tearing down a building
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