Hsieh says that because the house was in such poor condition, all the contractors he hired advised him to tear it down and start from scratch. (That would have cost him about NT $ 7.5 million.) But he insisted on investing his time and money in the existing framework, and kept destruction to a minimum.
謝孟霖表示，因為屋況糟糕，當初每位施工師傅看了都建議不如整個拆除、重新蓋一棟（約 750 萬元），但他卻寧願費工費錢，堅持以現有的骨架為基礎，將拆除量降到最低。