After a month in New York "recovering" from
finishing the roof and that mad dash we called
the Marathon
, I'm back in London for more. Happily this trip won't involve too
much continuous labor as tomorrow we'll be heading out of town for a
friend's wedding.
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| The Dump: AKA our Balcony |
Today's goal was to reclaim our balcony and the loft: the balcony had been our main
dumping ground for
roof debris over the last few months; the loft was suddenly so completely full of debris in the scramble to clear the scaffold before my flight
last month that we literally could not walk through it!
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| Our poor balcony viewed from the Dormer above |
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| The Loft - drowned in debris |
Rather than hire a skip (known as a dumpster in US)
we decided to go with a company that brings a truck with two guys to
help for roughly the same price as a skip. Considering how much debris
we had to remove - and that
we don't have a laborer - this turned out to be a great deal. We also had an extra set of hands as our
house-guest (AKA my mum) was back, and eager to help.
So
we ended-up working in two teams - my mum and I were up on the balcony
(one person pulling things off the pile - the other bringing them down
to the 2nd floor landing), and the guys from the rubbish removal company
brought everything from the 2nd floor down into the truck.
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| Pulling things of the pile of rubbish |
It must have taken about 2-3 hours, but we completely
filled their truck with probably 9 cubic yards of debris - that's
probably 1-2 tons! So after these exhausting few hours...we had our
balcony back!
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| Look - the balcony actually has a floor! |
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| The view from above |
After returning from our trip, we were finally able to enjoy the fruits of our labor...quite literally!
