Look What I Get To Help With

He has often helped us, and when we are done tomorrow I will give him another opportunity to help us. It is family.

@GardenGerty we do what we need to do to help one another. Family is family. When they need our help, we give it.

@ElusiveButterfly I know that.

I honestly think he has plans for some of the wood. That is why he has taken so long to take it down.

@GardenGerty It doesn't seem so bad, time-wise, but still it sounds like a lot of work!

Actually by the time we got there this morning it was completely down. He took three loads away yesterday and one this morning. His father-in-law and brother-in-law brought a small pickup and we took three loads out, then loaded my son up for another load and we were done by 12:30. Eight loads to the dump and still a little bit of stuff to rake up.

@GardenGerty With everyone pitching in, it shouldn't take long to bring it down.

@ElusiveButterfly It actually collapsed, what was leff of it, this morning before we got there.

It is good he finally swallowed his pride and decided we could help.

I just was too lazy to edit. I knew the caps were wrong. The house was in the beginning stages of foreclosure. It is livable but they had some nasty and expensive surprises about a year ago. Carbon monoxide leak, city inspector came in and they had to have wiring replaced as well as it was dangerous along with their gas hot water heater. There is some structural work to the porch and cosmetic work of course. The location and the fact that it has a shared driveway made it more affordable than renting a place.

@MarshaMusselman They have been living in it for about three years. It was bought as is with no inspections. The carbon monoxide detectors that they had purchased went off and started all of this. As for the shed, my son is the type to plan and engineer everything before he starts. He put up a "bumper" to keep it from damaging his good shed and used various tie-downs before pulling on it to get it to fall in the best direction.

@GardenGerty At least they know what they have to deal with going into the purchase. If it's doable for them at minimal cost, then that's great they got such a good deal and the city will have one they won't have to worry about any longer. I don't always want to bother doing everything perfectly either, with my grammar. Especially when my keyboard isn't working with me and I have to redo the same thing over and over again.

We are tearing this part down, it is not part of the house but it is separate.

@GardenGerty oh, i thought after you tear it down , you will build another part. sorry.

@ridingbet No problem. I think they are actually going to have a driveway where this was.

I could have done some boards for crafting. I just do not need the stuff right now. Vince found a piece of signage that may be historic. Hubby has a deer antler that was in the shed.

It is improving. There is a lot to get done, but this shed was both an eyesore and an attractive nuisance.

It was about the size of a small garage and it is not in a convenient place. The ground under it is more valuable than any living space.. We gave him a nice shed when we moved and it is in good useable shape.

I don't think it's possible to turn it into a livable place. It was probably originally meant to be storage, and since the city has said it has to come down (because it's unsafe), it sounds like that's what's happening.

It has been long past repair for years. It is a thought in my mind always to fix things when I can but there were trees growing up in it.

This was after he started. He had to go in and make sure all electrical and natural gas connections were killed out.

@GardenGerty That was the most important thing to do and verify. Gas can be very dangerous.

Most of it was down yesterday, he worked six hours on it. He was inside of what was left, or under the part that was left this morning, pounding on some stuff and it finished collapsing. He was safely ably to step out from under it.

@GardenGerty Oh scary, I am glad he wasn't hurt!

We are on burn bans right now. I wanted to hook a chain to our pickup and pull it straight down a long time ago. We are loading and carrying the wood to our "transfer station" to be disposed of.

@poehere Oh, it was pulled down by a truck before we ever got there. We used three pickups to haul away a total of eight loads. He had to make sure the gas and electric were completely disconnected and shut off.

@GardenGerty You are right. You should of pulled it down a long time back. Would of saved a lot of time now in ripping it down board by board.

He has already taken a large part of it down. It is just a long process. This is when he first started work on it Friday.

@GardenGerty Will the timber make good firewood? And do you have a fire to be able to use it?

We like to help when we can.

It is, but it is better than him doing it alone.