Amazing Photos of Treehouse Villa Demolition

[jt04]

Screamscape has posted a series of absolutely amazing photos of the demo of one of the Treehouse Villas. Anyone who was thinking the villas were only getting new furniture and carpet might want to think again. By the way it does look like a segment of "Extreme Home Makeover Show". Pretty cool.

 

[SirNim]

Reminds me of the Horizons demolition photos:
http://www.wdwmagic.com/horizons_demolition.htm

 

[brkgnews]

Holy Schneikes.

 

[VillanovaBlue]

Don't they usually remove glass, etc., before demolition? I guess they're just gonna cover everything up after they do their cleanup?

 

[Master Yoda]

Don't they usually remove glass, etc., before demolition? I guess they're just gonna cover everything up after they do their cleanup?

It depends on what kind of demolition is going on. If a building is to be imploded the glass is almost always removed. For the type of demolition being done on the tree houses it is not necessary and is kind of up to the contractor.

 

[jt04]

Don't they usually remove glass, etc., before demolition? I guess they're just gonna cover everything up after they do their cleanup?

From the look of things this is the same company that demolished the wand :ROFLOL:

Can't wait to see the new structures!

 

[bgraham34]

Good memories there i had.

 

[montyz81]

Link.

Reminds me of the Horizons demolition photos:
http://www.wdwmagic.com/horizons_demolition.htm

Now why did you have to mention Horizons. Such a sad sad day. RIP Horizons and WOM.

 

[imamouse]

The original blgs were not required to be handicap accessible, but I didn't see an elevator in the blueprint (see link to DVCnews above) for the new structures. How will the new tree houses comply with the ADA?

 

[Fun2BFree]

The "New" Treehouse Villas- Pay half price, get half a villa! :lookaroun

 

[Figment82]

I'm so glad I grabbed some photos of the dormant Treehouses a couple weeks ago! I was wondering when demolition/construction would begin - I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.

 

[SnowWhiteMomma]

Very cool and very sad

 

[Master Yoda]

The original blgs were not required to be handicap accessible, but I didn't see an elevator in the blueprint (see link to DVCnews above) for the new structures. How will the new tree houses comply with the ADA?

As far as I know they will not be ADA compliant. The only way I know that they can get away with this to to have the tree house villas be a a part of another resort that has ADA compliant rooms. In this case it would more than likely be SSR.

 

[jt04]

The original blgs were not required to be handicap accessible, but I didn't see an elevator in the blueprint (see link to DVCnews above) for the new structures. How will the new tree houses comply with the ADA?

Disney is required to provide accomadations that are ADA compliant. However they are not required to make every accomadation ADA compliant.

 

[joel_maxwell]

well, something is a miss... screamscpe site isnt coming up. did we shut it down with bandwidth? :lol:

 

[ChuckFromCanada]

I am currently at POFQ and if you take the boat to DTD you can see two are already knocked down and one more is on the way, there are tractors on site.

 

[Space Mountain]

What a waste to just demolish the treehouses with the glass. There has to be parts of the treehouses savageable..

 

[jt04]

I am currently at POFQ and if you take the boat to DTD you can see two are already knocked down and one more is on the way, there are tractors on site.

They can't move fast enough for my taste. Those building had become downright ugly after the storms.

 

[Master Yoda]

What a waste to just demolish the treehouses with the glass. There has to be parts of the treehouses savageable..

I am sure there were parts that could technically be salvaged but quite frequently it costs more to salvage than buy new.

 

[jt04]

I am sure there were parts that could technically be salvaged but quite frequently it costs more to salvage than buy new.

Could very well be mold issues as well :hurl: