welcome to recycled idaho where two recycling industry veterans brett eckhart nick snyder explore idaho businesses and organizations they’re putting in the work to keep idaho environmentally and economically viable at the same time take a listen to how these entrepreneurs business owners and operators are making things happen in the great state of idaho on this boots on the ground i get a chance to walk around the rubble of an old gym john nindorf or more commonly known as niner i can’t wait to sit down with him and learn more about himself and his business aai demolition enjoy welcome everybody i am here with john neindorf or betterly known as niner how you doing good so we’re here at a job site and we’re here a few days late because it is already knocked over so that’s okay i was kind of hoping to get some before shots and after but i really want to kind of just go through the some of the demo process and how recycling ties ties on in there so just give us a quick like run down of what this building used to be well it was a gym

um and what we do is we start demolishing the building processing separating everything um try to keep each material segregated and clean you can see the metal looks pretty clean yeah a lot of a lot of iron a lot of iron on this job like more than i when you kind of told me about it i mean it’s not a it wasn’t an entirely huge building was it uh 15 000 footprint okay two-star i mean on this end this i mean a lot of beam a lot of clean um sheet iron you know yeah in a in in our world in the recycling the scrap world like that’s a good product right there i think most of the the wiring was aluminum though yeah yeah there’s kind of a bummer and this building had been broken into a lot of the wiring has been yanked yeah so when do you anticipate you guys started on monday right yeah monday mid-morning yeah when do you anticipate you’ll be done i figured less than three weeks on this project okay um that’s everything that’s you know sub-grade as well and the the scope

of everything um is this like a medium-sized job a big you know small job big it’s not small but it’s not huge i mean i’m saying medium medium um you know a little bigger and small one thing that we run into in the scrap industry especially when we’re helping on jobs or just removing scrap like sometimes you’re in neighborhoods like we are today yeah do you get a lot of you get a lot of complaints with the noise well when we’re in the neighborhood we try not to start before eight o’clock okay i believe i believe the noise ordinance is seven to seven to six but we try not to start till eight just so we don’t piss people off yeah you don’t wanna be the first one on the job site and piss everybody off gotcha i just don’t i don’t think a lot of the general public realize how much demolition can go on especially in this valley just how and how necessary it is it just kind of goes back to even how it fits right into the recycling aspect of it i mean because that helps keep some of

the waste out of landfill helps your bottom line too and as you like look here how they’re cleaning all this concrete the concrete needs to be clean as well and it gets recycled okay yeah you know it either it either gets recrushed or put in a to fill a void yeah um on a lot of jobs we’ll have clean clean wood which is recyclable as well this job it wasn’t it wasn’t feasible because all the roof was styrofoam inevitably there’s some waste that comes with anything right you know even in our yard like you know there’s always waste that comes with the projects i’m sure you don’t want loads of metal with styrofoam i prefer i prefer cleaner the better but you know we’ve seen a little bit of everything in our yards yeah you know so this pad are you so this whole thing’s coming up too yeah so he’ll he’ll do all the all the above grade okay and trying to keep everything separate and clean obviously that’s demo debris going to the landfill yep iron going up to you yeah and then once he gets uh gets enough of this clean

back he’ll come back and start peeling all this below grade okay and then if we don’t know if there’s wire or rebar in this if you know if there’s a lot of rebar we have to cut all that out because you have to break it out of the the concrete too yeah we try you know they don’t they don’t want a whole bunch of rebar at the concrete pit either exactly yeah i’ve been told a lot of those places won’t even accept it with rebar anymore i don’t know if that’s true it is some of them won’t or they charge you more so to clean it you know they don’t want to deal with rebar either even though that this is recyclable this concrete pad we’re on do you get paid for it no no no we pay them you pay that but it’s cheaper than going to the landfill it’s cheaper than going landfill but still you’re not and that’s one thing where even like those blue bins that says everybody’s house for recycling yeah people get a little up in arms because they raise the price on it right but it’s expensive

to recycle plastics and papers and concrete like yeah there’s enough value in an iron where you can generally pay for it you know that’s something obviously you haul it in you get paid for it no it definitely pays to segregate it you know and any of the anything that you can recycle it’s cheaper than going to the landfill so it’s yeah you know it makes it worth it to spend some time to segregate everything separate how long have you been in the demo industry um i have been since 1995. okay always here in the boise area yep yes you grow up around here uh southeast idaho okay have you always been with uh aai did you start with since i moved to boise it’s a long time yeah we’re getting old nick so the wood on this project you just can’t get it out let’s go on landfill it is um and there was some there was some really nice big glue lambs in there that we just we tried to get them out to save them where do you use we just couldn’t say where do you recycle that at um we don’t

recycle them per se they’re just a people want them you can sell them right that’s something you could sell right online or something okay and it keeps it from going to the landfill yeah absolutely you know do you know what this is going to be they don’t tell us we’re just the demo guys get it get in here get it tore down and get the hell out i know the feeling i’m just the scrap guy they tell me less than you yeah yeah so well here’s kind of the center you know you got your excavator up there is this kind of job typically just a one excavator type of job with a bobcat you can get the whole thing done yeah yeah this isn’t big enough to bring two machines i mean you could probably bring a smaller a smaller excavator and pull out some more see there’s a little bit of small iron metal in here yeah hard to get it off you know hours versus yeah you got it the value take the analysis cost analysis yeah i told kevin to save that couch for me well i was going to try

to sell it on craigslist but he offered it to me for 25 years look they it up well i’m not buying it now kevin on this do you bring in one of those those numbers this one’s just a pecker now this shouldn’t be this shouldn’t be hard enough for that we have a we have a wrecking ball just pick that up and drop it oh okay cool what’s that wrecking ball made out of just iron all right okay okay great well thanks for walking around with us and i can’t wait to get you in the podcast room and have a beer with you ah whiskey if you don’t mind got it yeah whatever you want all right buddy thanks man you