Saturday, 30th May 2009 - DIY Demolition Day 1
Today was our first day to do DIY demolition! Wow! The weather was beautiful and it was a lot of fun! We armed ourselves in old jeans, t-shirts, sweatshirts, shoes, thick rubber gloves, goggles and face masks.
The sheer smell of ripping out those blue carpets was enough to knock out an elephant! I think Antonio had too much fun with his sledge hammer, but then he's a guy so what do I expect? Men and their toys!!! In his past life he must have been a laborer because he swung that thing like a pro!
We split the work up between us. I unscrewed all 17 fire doors (by hand) and removed them from their hinges. I ripped up the foul-smelling carpets; rolled them into sausage-like rolls; tugged, dragged, wrestled and screamed them outside to the front garden of the house. I did likewise with the fire doors. :) Let's just say my arms were burning from the sheer weight of carrying & dragging the fire doors down two flights of stairs and up, but who knew old smelly carpets could weigh so much?!?! While I was working on the upper levels for the most part of the day, Antonio was outside in the front garden destroying the front brick/cement block garden wall, horrible 70s wrought iron fencing and the large kitchen in the lower ground level (LGL).
It was a fully rewarding day, but as the saying goes, "it's only a drop in the bucket" of what's to come.
An example of the horrendous fire doors in this house!
The doors really create a lovely mental health clinic feel to
the building, wouldn't you agree?
You can't even begin to imagine the smell these two bathrooms
have created on this level of the house.
This third toilet could quite possibly be
THE worst bathroom I have ever seen or smelled in my
life. The worst part of all of this is knowing that only a couple
of months ago people were actually still using this place as
a dwelling. (Just can't bring myself to use the H word.)
He loves his new toy!
The forever famous smelly blue carpet.
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