Jim and Matt worked hard this week deconstructing the back of the house. It was hard, messy work, but by the end of the week they had filled two dumpsters and gotten the whole back of the house ready for the foundation crew to come in next week. They even had time to start deconstructing the garage. They don't want to come in with a big machine to crunch the garage because it is so close to the fence that they can't predict what will happen and they don't want it wreck the fence.
We also hired a couple of guys to pull out the bricks in the patio and stack them in a big pile. In five hours, these guys stacked up all the bricks in the patio and started down the path. They were really fast and worked really hard. In the photo below, you can see the sand that was underneath the patio and hiding behind the cage you can see the huge pile of bricks that they gathered for us. We donated the bricks to Whole House Salvage and they sold them already, so all we need to do is get a situation where it is possible for a truck to get to the backyard and get the bricks. It's a great deal for us -- we don't need to pay to recycle the bricks, we get a tax deduction for the value of the bricks and we get a receipt to show the city that we recycled them so that we can get our "recycling deposit" back.
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