In Scotland, a busy motorway bridge must come down in just 48 hours. A boatyard in Portsmouth destroys once loved vessels and a building in York is demolished, but will the centuries of Roman ruins below, remain undisturbed..."
One Scrap King takes to the skies, while his team below battle a site next to high speed trains. A military jet plane avoids the scrap heap. And a bitter-sweet job for one demolition firm, drafted in after a fire in an ice cream factory.
The home of premium bonds in Blackpool is set for an explosive ending. A bus takes its final journey to a wrecking yard in Barnsley and the artist who made giant WW1 soldier out of scrap metal, tries to tame a dragon.
Squibb Demolition recycles a challenging but financially lucrative, obsolete aluminum smelting plant. Trailer homes (caravans) that met with an untimely accident are recycle for spare parts. Plastic office desk trays are recycled into sunglasses frames.
Collar Group demolition company strives to recycle ninety-eight percent of the materials in an office park they're tearing down. Father and son duo Mick and Marty Dunndedale of team Rodders work as amateur mechanics to keep their championship demolition race car in working order using salvaged parts to manage their budget. Paul Furbank, the Rag and Bone Man, builds designer furniture our of scrap metal parts he couldn't bear to see melted down.
Hutchison Demolition razes an abandoned and thoroughly looted hundred year old school. The money maker is a wall of valuable delph stone. Roger Sibley's company restores vintage amusement park rides and pedal cars. His challenge now is to restore and reassemble one of the very few remaining caterpillar rides in time for the summer season. Jeff Ripley's company specializes in bus salvage and shows us how it's done. Paul Thurback re-purposes scrap metal parts into new devices.
Wooldridge demolition demolishes a steel frame brink factory which, despite the inspector's certification, contains dreaded asbestos. The experts explain how and why it has to be removed so carefully. Bill T Deacon recovers 'big metal' machines for recycling. Today he's after a broken down excavator which, true to Bill's normal experience, is almost impossible to move. Rob Collard offers a tour of his recycling center.
Stockport decides to demolish one of its ugliest buildings. A beautiful wooden boat is pulled from the Thames and a decision must be made to restore or recycle. And how many crushed cars can you cram into a container?
