The Debbie and Larry Rawls Project

The Demolition

This week the short term Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers are from Beanblossom Mennonite Church in Beanblossom, Indiana. For you Bluegrass music fans, that is the home of Bill Monroe. The impressive thing about this group is that whole families have come to work, and even their young folks are working. 

On January 15, 2008, the demolition began in earnest. You will notice some on the roof, sawing off pieces and tossing them to the ground. The ground crew rakes and shovels up the pieces; dumps it wheel barrows; carts it to the dumpster; and shovels it into the dumpster. This was hard labor!

 

FUMC Home

 

Self Help Housing Home

Project Phases

Rawls main project page

Foundation and Flooring

Interior framing

Exterior, flooring, final roofing, and interior finishing

Home Dedication

 

 

 

       

 

 

Everything in the house was destroyed by water damage. So everything inside had to be taken out thrown away.

 
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fortunately, Nathan Bishop, owner of Bishop Drilling, provided a back hoe and operator to tear down the rest of the structure. Ronnie Hughes, owner of Hughes Logging, provided the transportation of the back hoe to the project site. These pictures were taken the next day.
 

 

 

 

The old structure is now gone!