Peeling away the wall, suddenly a piece of history showed up. The old door’s lock. The new door and it’s external frame were neatly fit inside the old external doorframe.
History!
Tetris!
Just like in the game: You start off real nice and neat and as the level progresses things get messier and messier. Game over, clean slate with a new container. Fortunately that is the goal here.
Current container count:
- Wood: 2
- Rubble: 3
- Random trash: 1
Bigger Hammer time!
Yeah, well… That was the experiment with the jack hammer. At least two layers of concrete at different thicknesses. Some pretty darn hard concrete. That just won’t work. Sore wrists, sore back, days of hammering. Suppose it will take a bitter tool than this. 🙁 Bigger Hammer Time!
Tools and walls
A new tool! A big demolition hammer. Must say that even that one had a hard time with this wall. Bricks with open spaces. Lightweight and less material, all cool but mortar seeps into those openings and makes the wall a lot less sensitive to hammers…
The concrete floor is a worse match for the demolition hammer, let the old fashioned sledge hammer deal with those damned sturdy walls. Let’s build some muscle…
Barn
The old barn is showing more and more. At times somewhat anxious for the original outer wall, we peel away the inner layers until it shows in its full glory. Not for too long I guess as a single-brick wall does not really live up to the modern standards…
Some Math
Yesterday we tore down approximately 12.7 meters of wall of about 2.3 meters high. Makes close to 30 square meters and almost fills a 6 cubic meter container. (all and all probably a little over a one person’s day)
After a rough measuring, I’d say there’s about 25 to 30 meters (57 – 69 squared) of brick wall left to do. Makes three days and as many containers. Pffffft…
And then there’s the concrete and tiled floors…
Progress
Yes, we made some progress this weekend. It feels like proper progress when walls come down. Maybe because of the figure of speech. Anyway, it already has been a satisfying weekend. Tomorrow coffee with cake (and who knows something stronger) with the new neighbours.
Volume vs Weight
The previous container with bricks was picked up a tad early. It wasn’t quite topped of to my liking. So… the next one will have to compensate for that small mess up: We played Tetris all day…
(thanks Anko and Barry 😃)
Container count
The current container count is:
- Wood: 2
- Rubble: 1
- Random trash: 1
Each container is 6 cubic meters (not going to do the numbers in Imperial, dûh).
However, rubble container number two is filled already so that one will be picked up this Monday.
Let’s hope they don’t drive into the ditch again. Maybe I’ll get some pics of that to show later.
Taal -> Language
To allow some colleagues to understand all this, the texts from now on will be in English (the pictures too 😉 )
(all I need to do is figure out an easy way to change the tags and categories in WordPress…)