Thorndale's Free On The Curb Day

[shag]

Well if you didn't like the holstein planter

Maybe you would like a reindeer planter thingy. I have extras, if you want one its yours.

 

[petek]

Looks like you had a fun day. I had to look up where Thorndale is having never heard of it. Sis told me Petrolia was having their town wide yard sales yesterday, maybe today as well so I should go...she called to late to tell me, had forgotten. And then the big storms came in and our power was out for a few hours too. What a difference a day makes, was about 80 here, now it's only in the 50's

 

[aeoliandave]

15 more bags of gawd damm blown 'insulation'

Took some over to a contractor and was assured it was cotton wool, like matress stuffing. NOT ASBESTOS!

Nonetheless, I wore a mask with filters, a hat pulled over my ears and long sleeves to be safe.

Insidious stuff. It compacts nicely but as soon as disturbed it grows and swells to 2X its volume. A righteous pain getting it over to the bag without spilling.

When I bought the house the entire unfinished attic front and rear had this stuff 3 feet deep from end to end, with a single plank sidewalk to both windows. The only way to vacuum it up would require a vacuum truck outside. I'm using a shovel, with a large garbage can with sides extended up 2 more feet to hold the whole bag. First leaf bags I was using were split-prone. Yuck. Paid the extra for the industrial waste bags.

All this from the eaves of the last corner of the Attic, where the mattress was shoved.

 

[aeoliandave]

I forgot what a fast & furious 'floor' I put down decades ago. LOL

I'd hoped to have the new one laid today but...before picture of compacted insulation fluff. Just this filled 15 bags!!!

Tonight I'll puzzle over eliminating the 1.25" thick bead board doors and arranging the 3/4" subfloor pieces for a flat surface. Powertools will be involved. Rude words will be flung...

The bead board was fashioned into doors separating the basement rooms early in the house's history. I took all those walls out. I'll be able to use the bead board to replace what's missing in the kitchen behind the modern sink unit. cupboards.

 

[andy]

Dave

My parents have that nasty stuff in their attic. Just hate it. I can't imagine what a backbreaking job that must have been getting it all in those bags.

 

[aeoliandave]

Potentially back breaking but I was careful to lift with the knees. . Getting them all downstairs to the car was a chore. Only 8 at a time fit the car. Anyway, there's no room in the garage to store them for proper disposal (and I assure you I normally use the Dump Facilities).

But, with time constraints crowding me I irresponsibly took them to the loading dock area out behind the DURA Automotive steering, window and seat factory employing 450 that supplied Chrysler and GM, that closed with a month's notice - no severance - just before Christmas this year. The factory is being mothballed, all the machinery has been moved to Mexico and there are 6 huge dumpsters out back filling with remaining factory debris. Didn't bother my conscience one whit. The dumpsters and the parkinglot are filled with old couches, fridges, stoves, boxes of clothes and garbage, you name it that folks losing their rentals and homes have been dumping on the receivers for months now. Unemployment disgruntlement? You bet!

We've also lost the first of two Standard Products factories (250)that sew up car seats and panels and Crane Plumbing (200) that makes porcelain fixtures will close in a month or so. :-(

Nasty business in small town Ontario.

http://www.duraauto.com/include/homeTemplate.cfm?ID=0

 

[arh1953]

Wouldn't bother my conscience either

Don't you just love big business? (not) Attic looks great though. I could sure use one right now.

 

[aeoliandave]

Just couldn't wait...

Began to rain again. Got the plywood in from the garage, threw carpet rolls back in the car and brought one green roll in to see if it's in as nice shape as I hoped.

It Is! My first carpet that shows footprints...I mean, groom tracks. Pieced together the 4 green rolls will run from the Attic door for about 20 feet and wrap around the corner bathroom to the left 15 feet all the way under the skylights to the eaves. One large plush demo area settled. Golleee Gomer, this is fun.

Two more sheets of plywood tomorrow and I'll have a level floor.

What a day. Time for some ice cream and off to bed.

 

[kenmore81]

Nice day(s) work Dave, I can't wait to see your "Vac-u-Matic" lounge complete. Of corse It will never be "complete" with us collectors lol.
Kenny

 

[filterqueen83]

how about

a leaf blower put on vacuum would that work.

 

[aeoliandave]

how about a leaf blower put on vacuum would that work.

To do what? Blow it out of the eaves and turn the attic into a wood framed Snowglobe? You really don't want to have this fluff floating around in the free air, never mind getting all over the vacuums & cleaned out crannies, down my shirts and in my ears...

Seriously, even the 65 gallon Shop Vac I borrowed for a while fills up so fast and then ya have to carefully dump - pour actually - the expanding stuff into bags...and that's only enough to fill half of one bag. It's less work to shovel it.

I'm sure there are commercial vacuums on trucks that do this sort of evacuation but they don't do it for free. My method may be slow and back bending but it works without spreading the stuff any further. I will use the 2.25" shop vac to do the final cleanup sucking, since the roof meets the floors at head bonking & squashing angles.

Got 3 more sheets of plywood tonight and a 60 foot roll of heat activated carpet seaming tape from the carpet store - this stuff fuses the pieces tight together for a seamless fit. Once the east half of the flooring is done and carpet set down I move all the vacuums against the west eave over to get at the fluff wedged into those eaves. At the time I was content to just stuff it into the eaves and lean boards against it like a levy dam.

Now I know the method that works I'll be able to replace the barnboard forming the back wall's uneven lumpy 'floor'.

 

[filterqueen83]

no silly

you know how leaf blowers have a mulching function with a bag on it. Suck it up with that and when the bag is full put it in the trash. very simple...

 

[petek]

You mean like this one I got a few weeks ago at the famous junk emporium.

 

[ohio_tuec]

I have that same Ryobi in its electric version. I'm sure the gas is waaaay more powerful. With a plastic mulching blade I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it gives up the ghost....

 

[petek]

I had the electric one as well, the fan blade got demolished from too many pine cones I think.. not sure if this has plastic or metal in it.. probably the same plastic. I found this one for $10 or $15 just a couple of weeks ago.. only prob is it's quite heavy especially as the bag fills