Tearing Down The Roach Palace!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2021
- It. Is. Gone. (and there was much rejoicing!) Spoiler: I wasn't there when the main part of the house came down, so you won't get to see that. Oh, how I wish I would have been! I really wanted to see it come down! Please take a (big!) moment and keep reading...
The gas stove actually dates from 1988, had a digital timer available as an option (probably very expensive!) and was made by Tappan for GE. I'm curious what liquid is (was?) used in the oven thermostat capillary tube and bulb. The GE service manual says only that it was "caustic". Whatever it is, it flashed into smoke (exactly like that from a fire) and dissipated almost instantly when the tube got broken. (Amazingly, the fluorescent lamp tube above the stove's console was unbroken when the tractor grabbed it.)
When I say that the stove wouldn't bring a pot of water to the boil, I mean a large pot of water. Small ones it would, medium ones took a long time. That's been my experience with every gas stove I've ever used (one from Whirlpool and another from Maytag, both slightly newer than this one).
Every water pipe in the Roach Palace had burst, something I discovered when I had the water service restored not long after purchase. One had to pull up a part of the kitchen floor and reach down about two feet to get at the shutoff valve. I was somewhat amazed there WAS a shutoff valve!
Still of the impression it could be saved at the time, myself and a good friend started gutting the kitchen. During that process, I discovered newspaper used as insulation in the walls. Unfortunately, none of it was sufficiently intact to make out a date or any headlines.
Things really went downhill when my father suggested we take the metal roof off of the kitchen to see what was under it. Part of me knew better, yet it happened anyway with no plan to repair/replace it, and that was the beginning of the end.
Until I bought it, there were no smoke detectors anywhere in the house. I later learned the humidity would set them off! Of all the circuit breakers in the box, only about half did anything. Someone tried to wedge a Siemens two-pole breaker onto the bus bar in the Square D box...and went on to try and power a 240 volt A/C with it, to predictably successful results, I'd imagine.
About three or four years ago, there was a rash of vandalism. Many people were affected. They got into the Roach Palace, the yard shed, some of our cars, and the new garage. (How they did that had me puzzled until I remembered the old "credit card" trick. I've since resolved this problem. Amazingly, the Roach Palace's door wouldn't yield when I tried that, which explains why they went in through a window.) They even unplugged the DVR, and then, as a way to really thumb their noise at us, plugged it back in after they left. The only real damage was to the dial glass of my Zenith 6S52 radio, which came with the palace. It could have been much worse.
I'm not sure what happened with the deinterlacing around the 16 minute mark. Nor was I going to re-export it, after the computer spent nearly two hours on that task! You'll live.
We have tractors (most specifically, an International Harvester 756) that could certainly have taken most if not all of the old house down. I didn't want to chance having the old house fall onto the new garage or somewhere else that it shouldn't have. I was nervous about that happening even though the people I hired have done this before.
I wanted to save the TV antenna mast, so the Keykeeper, myself and our father all took it down. I cut the legs off with a saber saw and then we lowered it down to the ground with a rope. I'm not sure what I'll do with it. Someone approached me about wanting it for use as a concrete "drag", and I may just send it their way.
Since the last part of this video was shot, more dirt was brought in and the lot graded further. So far, nothing has grown or sprouted.
Everything in this video took place over about three and a half weeks in August 2021.
Next project? Quite possibly having the trees removed from the yard. I don't know what, if anything, I'll put in place of the palace.
Trivia: the name "Roach Palace" comes from an issue of Consumer Reports Zillions, which was a magazine they published for children. One of the restaurant reviews in it ended with words to the effect of "tune in next time, when we review the Roach Palace".
The new siding probably only helped to trap in the moisture and make the degradation even worse.
I'm wondering if the root cause of the moisture problems was a combination of the "foundshion" and the bare soil underneath the house
@@JohnSmith-xq1pz That too. I thought homes in areas with winter frost were required to have a basement, or at least a crawl space, but this house was probably constructed before any kind of building codes really existed.
@@vwestlifeI'd assume that too that it was built pre such building codes
It’s so good to hear from you bill, I’ve seen you lurking about various comment sections. I hope you can make more but real life comes first.
Indeed! 1:09 Boy have I missed that laugh...
@@GeckonCZ my self as well. I even got one of my favorite “Uxwbill-isms” on this video “I’m a professional bad example operating on a closed course.” Haha
@@GeckonCZ: The UA-cam algorithm is working wonderfully well in this instance to kick up all the early @uxwbill content too...
William, it's very great to see a video from you! Thank you so much for documenting the demolition of the Roach Palace... I remember when you use to make videos in and around it.. I was just a little kid then, 23 now.. still a kid, just a few more years under my belt.
Ah, you said it! Operation Penopticon!
Same here, I'm a little younger than you, but still - We've grown up with Bill and the gang!
Even though it's the end of an era for the infamous Roach Palace and it's sad to see it go, it's good that it's finally been put out of its misery and a weight has been lifted off your shoulders. It's just too bad it wasn't maintained properly by the previous owners. Man, it just disintegrated into splinters! That wood was extremely rotten. I'm definitely thinking the roach palace is from the late 1800s rather than early 1900s, now that I see it without the aluminium siding, due to the siding and trim around the windows, the general placement and size of the windows, etc... The next saga is to figure out what to do with the lot lol.
Good to hear your voice again and glad to hear you're doing well. Sad to see an old house come down, but it was obviously beyond the point of reasonable repair.
as much as I hate seeing old houses torn down, especially when torn down for the sole purpose of building some other modern cheap house like all the ones today... that house was WAY beyond any reasonable repair.
never in my life did i think i was going to watch that roach palace get torn down.
I was starting to think the same thing!
@@uxwbill The More I watched this video bud the more I'm begInning to wonder what sort of Cowboys were hired to renovate the joint over the years. Or if they were even builders at all or just somebody the owners knew who wanted a quick few spondoolys for a job Lol.
Either they had no idea what they were up to or they had the job done as quickly and cheaply as possible with the minimum amount of effort or materials needed and didn't care for what might come after as a result I mean who does that with a full length window and doesn't seal it in from the outdoors more than a thin bit of metal I don't think I've ever heard of that before HAHA.
Glad to see you uploading a video bill!! Hope you and your family are doing well!
The man the myth the legend has returned!!
Welcome back uxwbill you've been missed. Glad to hear life has been good despite the virus and such. If not mentionedin the video, what's the plans for the lot?
Always love to hear from you Bill! Thank you for all the joy you bring to your UA-cam audience. I hope to hear from you in the near future! Godspeed my friend.
Very neat to see. Thanks for documenting and sharing it with us!
Glad to hear you're doing well! Whatever you do with the property now I hope you can make yourself some great memories!
Rest in pieces Roach Palace. There was a house by one of the apartment complexes that got torn down recently with the trees surrounding it and it's an empty spot now, even the house that was by the mobile home complex where we lived at from 1992-1996 got torn down a few years ago.
Thought about buying a house that needs work done and fix it up myself and sell it for a profit.
Seen your videos from time to time for years. The roach palace was a neat series with a lot of nostalgia. But like most things, nothing lasts forever. Hope all is well in 2023 with you and yours.
You're one of extremely few channels I actually set up notifications for. Great to see you again be well.
Thanks UA-cam for not putting this in my feed or recommendations until I manually found it... I've been watching your videos for about seven years, so it's great to finally see something happen that you've wanted to do since your oldest videos.
Hey Bill, good to hear from you.
So glad to see you in good spirits William. Your videos are a source of enjoyment during this time of uncertainty. Be well and stay safe.
I usually find it sad to see something useful get abused or tossed in the trash BUT I found this curiously satisfying ! While watching the framing crunch up like balsa wood, it looked to me like there wasn't very much of this place that wasn't rotten. When something is that far gone, you know there's no saving it. The dust clouds were making me gag, even though I wasn't there in person ! Kudos to the demo guys ! You made a good call.
I was wondering when we'd see this happen. Glad to hear you're doing well!
I literally checked your channel hours before this video was posted for the first time this year yesterday . Happy to hear from you once again!
Hey bill, Been dipping in and out of your channel for a long time now, Really enjoyed your content and salvaging older parts of computers and such, love your content and hope your doing good
crazy to think, I remember back in 2011 when you made the "Roach Palace Slideshow" video and said you were going to tear it down, now it's 2021, which means it took 10 years from the release of that video for it to actually happen!
There have been two times in my life when I can remember being dirtier than I though possible during demolition work. One was at my church fellowship hall when we demolished the chimney, and the whole thing leaned into the room and took a third of the drop ceiling with it. The other was when I helped Uxwbill demo the Roach Palace kitchen. It was epic. It must have taken me three showers to get clean from that.
Good to see you back on YT doing well, and yep sometimes some things are just not worth trying to save.
So good to hear that you have been well Bill
Great to see your back uxwbill, great video as always. Can't believe you finelly got rid of the roach place. Can't believe that it sat mostly on dirt & had very little foundation. Here in UK most of our houses are made of bricks & solid clay roof tiles, its quite different from standard US houses. Glad your keeping well.
Glad to see uploads. Bill, your videos have inspired me to enroll in an hvac class, and I can't thank you enough. Thanks to you, I will soon be able to actually make a decant living!
I wish you the best of luck, and hope you enjoy the work. Keep me posted as to how it turns out, if you happen to think of it.
Although I wasn't initially sure I'd made the right decision, I had a blast in my classes and was sorry to see them end.
You know, I was just thinking about how long it's been since we heard from you the other day! So glad that things are well and hey, usually being busy is a good thing when it comes to work! Also glad to finally hear what the story was behind the roach palace because while I have been watching this channel for an extremely long time I really had no clue what the deal with it was. Glad that it's finally gone ( and to respond to the Monty python reference in the description : Yaaaaayyyyyy) and looking forward to seeing more content when time allows! Stay Safe! :)
Congrats on the cleanup. It’s been a staple of the channel for so long.
The house has been in poor shape for awhile. I remember the videos from 2010. It’s great to see a new video from you. UA-cam isn’t the same without you.
Welcome back! Glad to know you are doing well.
Gonna miss the roach palace. But yeah it’s time for it to go. The age of the house looks to be late 1800s to early 1900s from my perspective. I like houses from that era.
The mythical roach palace. Thank you for the tour now that it's gone. I understand very much. It's a privacy concern something newer people don't know just because they never had it. Now it makes sense to me why one too many machines got damaged inside the roach palace. Be safe and thanks
Good to see you again. I totally get that life is busy and being lucky to have a steady job. I've been busy too with my job and its been steady for me too which I'm grateful. When they tore my old house down they took the windows out of it too. But I wasn't told the reason for that either. My old house was from 1901. It was bought by the state for road work. the house wasn't bad but the lot was horrible. Best of luck to you.
Bill your voice is like an old friend. Thanks for all the wonderful videos over the years.
Finally, the day has come. That house probably needed to go for a long time. Good to see another Uxwbill upload.
Good to see you back 😀
I was so happy to see a video from you and a long video made it even better ! I hope that we are able to see more content from you. Best wishes to you and your family Bill
Good to hear from you, glad you are doing well.
Inspiring to see the number of loyal fans.
Whenever I sense social disapproval of my half-completed projects, I think of your buccaneering enthusiasm and mad scientist basement. It fills me with the courage to persevere!
One of the few channels that i keep subscribed since around 2013 - same guy, same old cam quality all shaking around and most important that bill is shwoing what he wants to show or do without the goal becoming rich via youtube. Keep it up and greetings from Austria(Europe)
I'm so happy you've uploaded!
Thanks for sharing update on roach Palace
Always a treat to see a new UXWBill video! Thank you sir!
I'm glad to see you doing a video. Your presence was missed
That ranger is still on your driveway!! Glad you kept it all those years, its a great little truck
glad your doing well,welcome back sir, R.I.P Roach Palace
Thanks, Bill. A pleasure to hear you again....
So glad to see a new post! Wow, this is a post I have not expected, yet at the same time I expected this many moons ago.
Looks like the Silverado is still kicking. I've had poor luck growing grass, wishing you luck.
I don't really care that much, so I'm not going to *try* and make grass grow there.
Bill glad to see you back you were one of the 1st channels I ever subscribed too. I've always enjoyed
all your content due to it being well explained and interesting glad your still making content. Hope
you have a great 2022 and future.
Dave R.
A few months ago when I realized that we hadn't seen a video from ya in a while, the first video back would probably be a big one. I wasn't disappointed :) Welcome back to UA-cam!
By the way, I forgot to tell you that, it was a sweet memory of when you make a Reese's peanut butter milk shake while you, TheKeyKeeper and Bizzarefurhead are at the Roach Palace, installing the Security Camera, FM antenna, and modifying the window air conditioner with a thermostat in one room. Plus doing the Halloween display from the Roach Palace which titled "Roach Palace Express." It really draws my attention to look back in 2010's when you, TheKeyKeeper, and Bizzarefurhead are having a good time with each other in the Roach Palace. It was a good thing to remember that back in the past
Man it's good to hear from you bill and I'm glad to see to you got a burden off your shoulders thank you for showing us the tear down and glad to know you're doing well. Many more videos brother:)
Watching this house come down and hearing a lot of the woes you had with it reminded me of a house I was renting for a year after coming home from deployment, which had similar issues with sagging floors and squirrels running amok within the walls and ceilings, along with an awful stench during the summer presumably from their nesting within. I even heard a couple of the bastards screaming at each other in the ceiling as I was trying to nap on the couch after work one day, to which I answered with the end of a broom handle jabbing furiously into the ceiling to shoo them away. It was an otherwise awesome hangout, with a two-car garage, and about as back in the woods as you could get within city limits, but my goodness, was this place past its prime. What gets me is that someone just recently bought the house from the guy I was renting from. What its fate is from here is beyond me - part of me hopes for an against-all-odds revival, part hopes for it to be put out of its misery.
On another note, I just happened to be thinking of you the other day and decided tonight to take a peek at your channel, and I'm glad to see you're still making videos. You're one of the first channels I had ever subscribed to in the early days of UA-cam, and I was equally as intrigued in all of the older tech you dig into as I was into the car-related shenanigans. You're even one of the reasons I started collecting old computers and parts (I still even have a Compaq Deskpro 466 I picked off the curb just about 11 years ago, along with a few ISA cards). Admittedly, my interests have shifted along with life in general since then, but your channel is still one of the coolest I've ever come across, and I hope you're hanging in there with the craziness happening these days.
A very sad day, yet a happy day! The poor old RP needed to go, and now it's gone. It didn't fall down, it had to be well and truly demolished...Which I'm sure wasn't cheap!
William...Such treat to see a video from you...So please you're doing ok!
Glad you are doing well. Be safe its always great to see a video from you
glad you are well but all those memories of the machines found on the side of the road wont be forgotten ;)
So glad to hear from you...RIP Roach Palace but it looked bad. Wish the tractor had a safety cab or at least he wore a hard hat for protection though. Anyhow really nice to hear from you.
im glad your doing well, i was thinking recently that i haven't seen you upload in a while
Wow Bill, it's been ages! But at least you got rid of that old dump!
its been awhile, and its nice to hear from you again
Good to see a new video from you! Hope all is well.
Truly the end of an era. I remember the milkshake video and the critter camera and Operation Penopticon. But on the other hand I never realized just how bad it was. I’ll be excited to see what goes up in its place.
I remember watching your videos quite a while ago, I'm glad to hear you're doing well!
Man this place is terrible. So many problems. Glad you're taking care of it.
I've had opposite experiences with stoves. Love gas stoves. Never really enjoyed electric stoves. The coils never seem to lay flat, and only a couple sections of the coil make good contact with my pot. With good contact electric stoves do seem to be able to heat a pot of water to boiling a little faster.
@@jordanjohnson714 I read, studied and did some asking around back when I first had trouble with this stove. A lot of people said "all the gas stoves you've ever used were cheap, low output models, better options abound and you should find one". So I went to some appliance stores, where they all said gas far outsold electric. I did see burner capacities varied depending upon which surface burner was in use, though I didn't know how or try to find out how I could equate that with performance figures from electric models.
I have come to believe that a lot of it is what people grew up with, which of course for me was electric. (Commercial kitchens seem to be almost universally gas. I've only ever seen one commercial-grade electric stove.)
Gas of course wins for extremely precise heat control (maybe an electric induction model would excel here also, I don't know) as compared to electric. Years ago, I was trying to make some ricotta cheese from whey previously used in the cheesemaking process, and it was then that I realized what a benefit that extremely precise heat control would be.
Long story short, I'm willing to believe that this was just a poor introduction to gas stoves and that better ones can definitely be had that will match or beat electric options. For now, though, especially as I really like the 1971 Hotpoint, I'm going to stick with it.
@@uxwbill I think you're right! I grew up with gas stoves most of my life so it could be that that's just what I'm used to. There are certainly ups and downs of each. I hadn't realized that gas stoves allow for more precise temperature control - I probably haven't paid close enough attention when I cook my food to notice.
No problem with sticking to the tool you like best. It bugs me when people are adamant you're "doing it wrong" because you don't have the "right" kind of tool, whether that's for woodworking, stoves, or barbecue grills.
Glad to see you again Sir you have been missed
glad you are doing fine and keeping busy
really glad your doing well
It's glad to see you again on YT. And yeah, the Roach Palace is pretty far gone and nothing can be liveable since the house is caved in, rotted out, wrinkling the panel, molded panel, et cetera et cetera, it is the right thing to call the Roach Palace to an end, because there is no point of trying to preserve the house since it is far gone and nothing can be reparable any longer.
Maybe some other time we all will see what is the new plans for the old place where the new house will be construed, or something else for your desire.
I don't know that you see my video that I post to my YT channel talking about the repair of the Samsung SyncMaster 931B monitor that I changed to both used and new electrolytic capacitor and got it going again.
Anyway, hopefully we all will see what the future is for your plan right at to the old place where Roach Palace used to be.
Welcome back bud!!
He’s back oh my god!!! Great to see u again
Windows have to be torn out before the demolition for safety, so that way the demo crew dosen’t have to worry about getting cut up by broken glass, i’ll also be honest with you, you are literally the first person i know as of this video that likes electric stoves, i have one myself and absolutely loathe it, considering getting propane tank installed or Natural gas line run to my house and changing over to gas cooking, thats just me though🙂
End of an era.
Indeed
Glad you are back in the meantime I have been watching your old videos
More specifically your first generation Chevy Lumina videos 13 years ago
I've got a 93 Lumina myself as my daily driver and drives very great
Good to hear from you uxwbill. this video cleared up a few things
I agree with the others here, great to have you back :)
Wow long time no see. And glad things working out for you bill
I'm glad to see this I've been watching your UA-cam videos for a while glad to see this one keep up the awesome videos
Some people don't understand the concept of "I like my privacy"... But anyway, glad to see another video finally! Glad to hear it's only good things keeping you too busy, too!
Glad all is well!
Nice! Now Bill you can build a brand new house in the same lot! It’s a win win!!🤩🤩
Damn, it's good to see you William.
Was just thinking of you last week. Miss your automotive videos
THANK YOU for taking the stove clock! With a bit of lubrication I'm sure it will run just fine. If the stove were made by GE it would surely have a Telechron movement. Seeing as the stove was made by a third party the clock is likely made by somebody else. Also AFAIK Telechron never made clocks of that style.
Also, I couldn't help noticing the old PC case, it looks like an Enlight. I've been looking for drive mounting rails for mine.
@ymxctrails Usually gears in clocks are brass or plastic. There might be some steel bits on some of the slow-spinning digits but nothing in the main gearbox where it would cause problems.
Stay tuned, there may be more to say about that...
Good to see you bill take care
I enjoy watching your vidoes
Welcome back!
Hello, sir, good to see a new video from you, I checked the other day to see if you had been active.
Hopefully you enjoyed watching this video.
Welcome Back UXWBILL👍 when I saw The Roach palace being torn down all I could think of was Forrest Gump: "Sometimes, There just aren't enough rocks!" Jenny's House 😆
It's always good to get rid of something once it gets to the point where you have made the transition from "I want to fix this" to "I want this gone". Usually something pretty big has to convince you of that. Sometimes it doesn't have to be that big, but in the case of an entire house...and this one in particular....this is pretty big. Glad that you got it down, and I hope there is something you can do with the land.
My mind began to change after a good friend of mine and I gutted the kitchen. What cemented it was the joist that started to fail when my brother stood on it. Every time I tore into another part of it, the situation got worse and worse.
Good to see you back! Wow. The end of an era, for sure. I'm sure it's a big weight off of your chest, now.
Yeah new video...Thanks for update during your busy schedule.
I was thinking about the Palace and when you were going to demolish it and this video popped up shortly thereafter. I bet you are relieved. It's a huge liability, not to mention that you're paying taxes on a piece of property that you couldn't really use. I hate it that it was too far gone, but I've seen houses like this before where the people that lived in it until they died never did any maintenance and let it rot, though, it looks like the Roach Palace was too far gone long before then. I couldn't imagine what winters were like living in that house with no insulation for what seems like as long as the house was there.
I bet your neighbors are pleased the house is gone.
I am enormously relieved and glad that it's gone. I wasn't that concerned about someone getting into it again or getting hurt (my brother and I made that extremely difficult after the vandalism incident).
The old man who lived there probably hadn't been doing anything for upkeep in at least ten years, and his family found trash bags piled hip deep (with trash in them) throughout most of the house. They missed the ones in the yard shed, which I found after closing the sale.
good hearing from you again. you did what you had to do.
Glad to hear from you Bill finally good job now you dont need to worry about it now great Bill dont be a stranger loved your tec stuff to
Hey Bill, nice to see you back, what are your plans for the property after you remove this old house from said property????, A new place or a double wide or.moduler home perhaps hope to hear back from you soon thanks and may God bless you always and forever and always keep you extra safe and healthy these days
The video description's a regular fount of knowledge. :-)
I love DAT VERY FUCKING 1970s wood paneling walls the Roach Palace used.
It's great to see a video - Hope you are doing well.
The legend is back!
I am doing well. Just very, very, very busy. A few weeks ago, I sent an e-mail to you and a few others about my Greenock 8530 planar, mainly as a data point. I don't imagine it's anything terribly unusual.
@@uxwbill: Initially your messages were getting bumped into spam by Gmail - but I saw that at the time - and just responded further. It is a great "data point".
I looked at a house yesterday that reminded me of the Roach Palace.