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I have an old 12×19′ single car garage on my property and would like to take it down myself. I have already taken the 12×5′ shed-roof addition on it, but am wondering if I am going about it the proper (read: safe) way.

It is a simple gable end box – I plan to take a circular saw and cut up along the rafters on each side, and take down the roof piece by piece from back (alley) to front (back yard).

After the roof is off – the walls should be simple enough to deconstruct.

Anyone have any other suggestions (other than using a truck to pull it down, or a backhoe/bulldozer). There are two other garages within two feet on both sides of the building, an alley directly behind and approx. 25′ to the back of the house.

Thanks!
Thanks for your suggestions – I think I’m going to get on the roof, make three cuts from ridge to edge on each side. Then, from inside the garage I’ll use a sawzall to cut the nails joining the deck to the rafters and take it apart that way. It’ll limit my time on the roof when it’s in an unstable condition.

I am building a garage in central IL (farmland), separate from the house, and I want to create an underground tunnel going from my basement out to my garage.

I was thinking about using a backhoe to dig an enormous trench between the basement and where the foundation of the garage is going to be poured, and actually bury sections of 5-foot diameter steel commercial drainage tunnel that I can acquire through a contractor buddy of mine. I am going to cut a door into the cinderblocks in my basement and run the tunnel through to the garage, where I will have it come up through the floor.

Any contractors out there feel that this might be unsafe? I’m in a very rural part of town, and there aren’t too many strict building codes that I know of that outlaw this.
Thanks for the responses everybody!

I hadn’t thought about the possibility of water getting in there. What if set the 5′ wide drainage tubes on a bed of gravel, and then drilled some small holes into the bottom of the tube to drain any leaks into the gravel. This tunnel will be sealed off from the basement through a door, by the way.

Also, I want to put in the tunnel simply because I think it would be cool and different. I have a backhoe and this is my first building-from-scratch project. This small tunnel wouldn’t see lots of use except for bad weather.

Any more suggestions as to how I can make this work?