When Rolf and Mari von Walthausen of Cedar figured it was time to get rid of the old mobile home trailer that was on their property when they bought it, they also decided to turn the demolition process into a statement about how such things should be done.
REUSABLE MATERIALS including lumber, insulation and windows were salvaged Friday during the razing of an old mobile home on the property of Rolf and Mari von Walthausen near Cedar. Helping with the project were representatives from Bay Area Recycling for Charities, Odom Reusable Building Materials and the SEEDS Youth Conservation Corps.
“This is a demonstration project for how community partners can work together to re-purpose building materials, create green jobs for youth, and do right by the Earth by keeping as much as possible out of the landfill,” explained Rolf von Walthausen.

To that end, he contacted several organizations and individuals he thought could help. They included Bay Area Recycling for Charities (BARC), headed by Andy Gale; Odom Reusable Building Materials, headed by Bruce Odom; and the SEEDS Youth Conservation Corps, headed by Bill Watson. SEEDS, a local nonprofit, stands for Seeking Ecology Education and Design Solutions.

Members of the SEEDS Youth Corps provided most of the labor for “deconstructing” the mobile home, while Odom reclaimed all of the reusable materials, and BARC collected all of the recyclables. The “community trailer razing” event was held Friday.

The von Walthausen’s permit for the demolition project was listed in this week’s compilation of permits from the county Construction Code Authority