Ow Doesn't Really Cut It In These Cases...(Or "What I Did With My Summer Vacation")

I've been telling you about the room we cleaned, that Shop in the basement that had all the epicness of epic trials and Norse sagas.

Here's a link to an entry I posted a few weeks ago when we were still working on it...http://becca-blog-bec.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-getting-there.html

Now you're gonna see pictures! We're 99.9 percent done with the whole freaking business and I want you to see it all, from beginning to end...

One of the first days...



Pool table next to the truck. Over by the shelf thing by the copper piping is where the other door is, where the first picture was taken from. For a long time we couldn't walk through one door and go out of the garage door unless we wanted to go up the front of the truck and climb around. We also couldn't get to the back of the room unless we climbed on the stuff. We had to go around by the basement door and go IN the other side if we wanted a safe route.



There's the back of the truck with the tank on it...



The OTHER side of the room.



After the truck had gone, there was still work to do. You can see the moldy sheetrock leaning on the one wall, and the saw against the other.



There's the sheetrock, broken down into more manageable pieces and thrown in a pile. For the record, I hate sheetrock. It's dusty, it's messy, it smears on cement, and this stuff STANK.



There's some more, but some of it was gone by this point. Look, there's a path!



After the sheetrock was gone, there was still some stuff to get rid of, but this is much better...



This is today with the garage door shut. I'll post a better one here when I get the camera back (I had to use the camcorder to get this.)



To get a general idea of what we had to put up with this summer, here's a tally of the numbers on this project...

HAZARDOUS WASTE: 342 LBS.
SCRAP METAL: 600 LBS.
OTHER: 5 LBS.
REGULAR STUFF: 8,257 LBS.

TOTAL OF STUFF REMOVED: 9,204.5 LBS

Now note that that wasn't JUST the room you're viewing here. We kind of went overboard and did a lot of things in the rest of the house, too. And this doesn't include the scrap on the trailer and the truck and the tank on top of that.

But between the four of us women in this house we removed over a ton and change EACH. Add the other stuff and it's probably a good ton and a half, maybe even two tons each.

And now my muscles are aching from yesterday's saw lifting/saw throwing fun so I'm going to go soak myself in epsom salts.

Ta,
Bec