We did a project of a old laundry building. We tore it down brick by brick and board by board. We salvaged all of the brick and all of the heart pine beams, rafters, and tongue and groove flooring through out. We lost our ass on it. We bid super cheap because we had a buyer lined up to purchase all of the materials from us and about 2 months into the job he wanted to cherry pick from the numerous stacks of salvaged materials. We ended up selling the antique brick for like a dime a piece and the heart pine for around .25 per board foot. It cost us more to take it down then we made selling it. If we could have just grabbed the brick with our excavator and loaded into our containers and taken it to our laydown yard and paid someone to chip, etc... but our laydown yard isn't zoned an inert landfill so dumping nonstacked brick would mean hefty fines if caught. So lessons learned. Never again unless its all under contract.