Nightmare on Elm St.

The journey of turning the nightmare we bought on Elm St. into our dream home...

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Sunday, July 17, 2005

Nightmare #2: The basement (part 2)

We were very lucky to work out a deal by which the Mr. traded a Sunday afternoon of work on Dr. P's race car for a Saturday afternoon of demolition in the basement. Here are some highlights-

Dr. P gets a little inspiration from some malt liquor during a break in the demo work.

Dr. P shows that he's not such a "lil' guy" after all by ripping nails from the wall with his bare hands.


The Mr. admiring the beautifully demolished wall...

The guys worked so fast that I all had to do was help load the truck and ride with them to the dump to haul away the trash. The dump was crazy- I wish I'd had my camera. We were there just as they were closing, there were buzzards everywhere, and a giant machine with big spikes was running over all of the trash to compact it into the ground. The holes left by the spikes were so big that we had to be careful not to fall in them because they would have made us fall down. $23.80 and 10 minutes later, and the basement walls were a distant memory...


Then, it was time for a nap...