Volunteers from both inside and outside of Minnesota bore down on the home of Dirk and Susan DeVries Wednesday to clear the house of its belongings and get it ready for demolition as part of the popular ABC TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

The volunteers, made up mainly of professional movers, began removing furniture and other personal items of the family at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

All volunteer tents, spectator areas and other tents will be set up later that afternoon.

The DeVries family, which consists of parents, Dirk and Susan, and their three children, April, 17, Derik, 15, and Hanna, 12, received word that they had been chosen for the home makeover Tuesday morning.

Dirk, 50, is a former farmer who works as a mechanic at Royal Sports in Clarks Grove. He had a farming accident when he was younger that left him without one arm.

Susan, 42, is a music and reading teacher at Hollandale Christian School, who is suffering from some serious health conditions.

Each member of the DeVries has much artistic talent and is known for giving to the community.

Celebrity Ty Pennington and his TV crew knocked on the door of the home at 84588 200th St. in Hayward Township, three miles east of Hayward to tell them the news just before 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Then in the time that followed, crews were busy filming and looking around the house, while the family packed for their trip to Niagara Falls, N.Y. Around 5:30 p.m., they left their old home for the last time to go on their vacation.

They will come back home on Tuesday to see a completely new home.

All of the construction for the new home, which is under the direction of Larson Contracting, will be completed in a mere 106 hours.

The house is scheduled to be framed from 9:30 a.m. until 2 a.m. Friday; on Saturday exterior features will be added. On Sunday all the landscaping work will be completed, and then the last day of building will be Monday.

The big “move that bus” scene is tentatively scheduled to be around 2 p.m. the next day.

Areas for spectators are being set up at the site. Look to the Tribune for more information about that area soon.