House sold next door after old digger passed away at the start of last year. After 9 months of drugo relatives and visits from the cops it sold. Then nothing happened after settlement. no one moved in. couple of mystery visits where people turned up with utes and removed the kitchen and the screen doors. came home last night to a temporary fence and an excavator. Then woken up this morning by brain surgeon #1 dropping the carport onto a skip bin. Went and asked him if he had someone coming to remove the asbestos as the house was built in the late 60s. Says, yeah will be here in an hour. whole demo should take 3-4 days. says you should probably keep the kids inside for a few days. Then starts pulling off the gutters, beating them with a pry bar. I clean up and put everything we have outside in the garage, move the cars away from the fence line and go to work. My wife is pissed. Rings the council and they say it's a private dwelling and they don't have to advise on the demolition or the build.
Later the "asbestos team" turn up and dressed in p2 masks and paper suits (no glasses no gloves) and start smashing up the eve sheets and throwing them in the skip. Wife rings council, they say ring worksafe. Wife says they see her watching then and speed up work.
12 o'clock, half the house demolished work safe turns up, has words and site is shut down. Signage for demo company is taken down. Now just waiting for retribution from bogan demo team. Not a great start to getting new neighbors. They are north of us and rumor is it will be the biggest 2 story place the council will allow to house many generations. Insurance is paid up, now just waiting.