A Technological Upgrade to Architectural Salvage

A Technological Upgrade to Architectural Salvage

An enterprising couple from Stamford CT has recognized a approach to make use of on-line public sale software program to salvage and promote fixtures, woodwork, architectural parts, plumbing and even landscaping and hardscape from houses quickly to be demolished.

Final week we met Maria and Greg Stanton at a big Colonial dwelling on Dolma Highway in Scarsdale. The proprietor had beforehand acquired the inexperienced mild from the Committee for Historic Preservation to demolish the house. Earlier than it was razed, the Stantons, who run Green Circle Auctions, combed the home for all the pieces that could possibly be saved. They documented and photographed doorways, home windows, sinks, vanities, lighting, bannisters, mantles, kitchen and bed room cabinetry, wooden paneling, radiator covers and extra from the within of the house that could possibly be bought in an internet public sale.

Exterior, Belgian block, slate sidewalks, stone retaining partitions, statuary and even a Japanese Maple had been photographed and provided to the very best bidder.

All these things had been posted in a restricted time public sale on the web site public sale ninja, the place patrons had the prospect to bid.

The day we arrived on the scene, the public sale was closed and the profitable bidders had been invited to return to the house to extricate their items from the house and take them away. We noticed a group disassembling the kitchen cabinetry, taking down the lights and eradicating no matter could possibly be plied from the partitions.

Exterior, slate walkways, backyard statues and even bushes had been being dug up and carried away.

Greg Stanton sees this as a really inexperienced resolution to dwelling demolition, in that the extra that’s carted away for reuse, the much less that finally ends up tossed into dumpsters and overflowing landfills. For houses which might be past renovation, owners and contractors can squeeze out some additional worth from parts that had been previously bulldozed and carted away.

In regards to the public sale – there isn’t any minimal bid – so each merchandise begins at $1. Inexperienced Circle shares the proceeds with the home-owner however there’s additionally an 18% charge from Public sale Ninja that comes out of the house owners pocket. Stanton says that Inexperienced Circle doesn’t take any challenge whose contents would yield lower than $10,000, so there’s actual cash to be made out of the leftover contents of dwelling and fireside. Stanton sees what Inexperienced Circle does as a win-win for the home-owner and the earth.

Try Inexperienced Circles subsequent public sale of a 2 acres of the “Idletime” property in New Rochelle here.