Friday, February 19, 2021

an architectural icon dissolves abruptly

One project that has been entirely too long-term has been to get rid of our garage, somehow, it being an unsafe structure and full of rats and termites.


Terrible Garage™
1938 - 2021
R.I.P.

The demolition took a day, and the cleanup will be longer: apparently, once you've created your pile of large smithereens, they lock together like felted fibers, and you have to further demolish the debris pile. As it is, they worked for 3-4 hours and filled a dumpster the size of our bedroom, and they'll fill at least one more.

Then some gates and fencing, some stuff for storage and some stuff for workshop space. It was really a huge chunk of the lot gone to waste, not only the 19' x 19'ish building, but 6 feet on one side, and maybe 3 feet on the other. (There's a tree back there!) We'd wanted to build a studio apartment for the kid, but it's been two years since we applied for the permit, and it's about time to give up and move on with other plans.

Thanks as always to Anna, who makes these things happen. ❤️

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