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November 26, 2005
Recycling
First, a back update: It took me 30 minutes to get out of a chair last night. It was a recliner -- so while it was fairly comfortable to sit in, egress was a bit hard. This morning I'm sitting on a hard, high, bar stool. It hurts to sit on, but I can get up and down pretty easily
Now on with today's show. (It will be short.)
See that bathtub against the wall? It's the only tub in the photo. It weighs 300 lbs.
We needed to get the tub out. And we needed to do it without getting hurt.
I enlisted the help of Steve Blake and Nathan Hay from work to lend a hand. The work moved along well enough after I convinced dad that he could supervise just as well standing outside of the tub. (Regular readers of the blog will know that Dad would have none of just standing and watching. He was right in the mix.)
We sat the tub outside. As we moved it from the bathroom to the great outdoors we discussed whether or not we wanted a new tub or if we'd be putting the old tub back in. We quickly decided on a new, lightweight tub.
I bought everybody lunch. It came to about $20.00
I needed a truck to get the tub to the recycling center. We'd be able to sell them the tub as scrap. Cary had a truck and he, Steve, Nathan and I loaded the tub up a couple of days later. I bought the helpers lunch. It came to about $30.00 with tip.
Cary and I drove the tub to the scrap metal place. I told Cary I'd split the spoils with him.
Let's see. Three-hundred pounds, a nickel a pound. That's $15.00. I got $7.50.
Now, the project was never going to be a money-maker. It was all about recycling. And having it hauled away would have certainly cost something.
The most important part of the project was the not-getting-hurt part. Which we achieved.
Which makes this hurt-while-tying-my-shoes back thing sort of ironic.
This is the downstairs bathroom now.
Posted by delmer at November 26, 2005 9:57 AM
Comments
Seems like you have a ton of house projects going on. Did you buy a house that needed work on purpose? Are you a masochist?
Maybe you're the kind that loves restoring your house? In that case, I hope you have great health insurance.
Posted by: The Phoenix at November 26, 2005 12:45 PM
I got about twice the square footage for the price. My plan was to do some serious cleaning, move in, and do projects slowly and one at a time. Things sort of grew and the projects expanded. The original timeline had everyting being done by Thanksgiving -- we sort of passed that by.
The downstairs bathroom is the last big thing.
Posted by: delmer at November 26, 2005 3:06 PM
Delmer, the start of this entry reminded me of a story in our local paper a few months ago. A man became stuck in a folding sofa and had to call the fire brigade to extract him.
Posted by: Michael at November 27, 2005 4:44 AM
That was a lot more practical than my home improvement projects... which usually involve unnecessary power tools and dynamite.
Posted by: Dave2 at November 28, 2005 2:01 AM