Here are some of the more unusual results of the work we are doing on the house. They are in no particular order and are mostly to remind us that we do indeed live in interesting times…
This is what we found underneath the house: old boards, an old metal breadbox, rusty buckets, and about 100 pounds of dust. Some of this was left by previous occupants and some brought in by the packrats…
This was the old cast iron cleanout on the side of the house that has since been replaced. It was our first indication that there was a problem with the sewage pipe from the house into the septic tank. And yeah, that is toilet paper and everything that goes along with it. This generated a couple of comments from the neighbors…
This was the giant pile of adobe/dirt that was left from us removing the adobe shed in the back yard. Shortly after this picture was taken it rained heavily and turned this into a big sludgy mess that took me a week to clean up.
My beautiful wife scraping 30 year old wallpaper off the kitchen wall. It did not come off easily, but was covered in grease and dirt so it had to go.
When we bought the house the backyard was sloped and hilly, making a lot of it unusable. To give us some maneuvering room we had a bulldozer push the dirt back and make it more level. The amount of dust this created had to be seen to be believed…
This pile of broken cinder blocks was previously our laundry/utility room. The pile got much larger than I had anticipated and sat there for several weeks before I found a way to get rid of it. Of course, I put it right in the middle of the backyard, making driving back there a bit difficult.
Sanding the drywall repair in the living room. Good thing I wore a mask, I wouldn’t want to get any of the drywall dust on me or anything…
Ripping apart the staging area room on the back of the house. Between the 50 year old insulation, the 120 year old dust, and the mold in the carpet I was hacking and coughing for a week.