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Essential Tips by Trade
Demolition

Sorting Materials

  • Concrete and concrete block: crush and grade for use as riprap (river bank protection), aggregate, sub-base material or fill.
  • Brick: reuse whole bricks and crush broken bricks for use as landscape over, sub-base material or fill.
  • Asphalt material: sort by type for milling and recycling.
  • Sell the whole building or dismantle and sell individual parts.
  • Store materials so that they are not damaged or discoloured.

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