You know that house on the block that everyone drives by and wonders, “What is wrong with those people? Why do they leave their trash out in their yard so the whole neighborhood has to look at it?”
That would be us!
You know, the people with their appliances sitting out in the yard?
That would be us!
We currently have a bathroom sink and console, washer, dryer and several doors sitting in the back yard and driveway.
Even Lulu has decided to get into the act of our backward slide into “those trashy people” by throwing her food all over the floor with gleeful abandon.
Yes, I realize that the smart thing to have done would have been to rent a dumpster. But, in our defense, Los Angeles has many people who make their living hauling trash and debris for people who don’t have a truck or the means to take the trash to the dump themselves. During past projects we have hired someone from the Home Depot parking lot or often people will see our trash and stop to ask if they can haul it for us.
I didn’t realize that we would end up with so much debris from this project – the trash pile kept growing…and growing…and growing. The trash pile has taken over the “good wood that I want to keep” pile. Everything is now mixed together in one colossal pile that will have to be sorted before it can be hauled away.
The downstairs bathroom is now gutted.
The bathroom floor will need to be built up so that it is level the rest of the floor. The bathroom floor was replaced before we bought the house due to water damage and a termite infestation. This floor is 6″ lower than the rest of the floor.
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September 7th, 2004 - 3:51 pm
Ooh! We were JUST that house and those people ourselves! We finally got all of our stuff moved into the dumptser and it BARELY met the legal fill limit. Man, I wish we had people trolling our neighborhood to ask if they can haul away our stuff.
Now, since we pulled off all the siding (that’s what the debris was), the house looks like a gunfight occured against it. The neighbors whisper and point.
September 8th, 2004 - 11:07 am
In order to properly complete the ensemble, you need some car parts, an overstuffed plaid sofa and for a real touch of class, use the sink as a planter…. garden tips from my home state…
Seriously, We got rid of a house worth of lath by cutting it down to 1 foot lengths with a power miter saw and filling the trash can up religiously for about two months. The foot length stacked really nicely in the trash can.
September 11th, 2004 - 6:43 am
Hi Heather! We are soon going to be the “trashy People” on our block! So…don’t feel so bad about it! We are getting ready to rip off the front porch and a wreck of a shed attached to the back of the house. The shed isn’t coming off though until I get someone from the City out to the house to show me where my “garage” is. I sure can’t find a “garage” anywhere on our property but we are paying taxes on it! I hope they don’t consider that wreck of a lean-to attached to the back of the house…our garage. But…I think they do. We already have a pile of trash inside the lean-to/garage. The trash is all that holds the structure up!!! We have ripped out all the panelling and dropped ceilings from the 6o’s, which is the majority of the trash! Oh well…such are the lives of BUNGALOW OWNERS! Soon…everyone will be driving past our house pointing and probably YELLING! The problem is…we live is a very small town (3,000) and everyone knows us and they know who the house belongs too. We get people coming up to us asking us about the house all the time. The most asked question is,”when are you guys moving in?” Our answer right now is,”a year or two”. We are always asked why we are waiting so long and then we have to explain how we are RESTORING THE HOUSE TO IT’S ORIGINAL CONDITION. Then they ask us why on Earth we would want to do that! It goes on and on. We live in HICK HELL! Trust me…it is no picnic! Keep up the good work! Love the windows alot! Cheryll