A much anticipated event, our garage was to have been demo’d last weekend.\u00a0 We had the volunteers. We had the food and beverages.\u00a0 What we didn’t have was a bin to put the unsalvageable pieces of the old garage into. It was supposed to have arrived between Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0 It’s now a week later and still, no bin.<\/p>\n
Opportunity knocks.<\/p>\n
A neighbour (yes, this place is crawling with them) is looking for a shed he can turn into a small workshop.\u00a0 He wants something he can set some tools up in that is semi-protected from the elements.\u00a0 Enter our garage.\u00a0 It’s immense size has the neighbour drooling.\u00a0 He has an old concrete pad to place it on.<\/p>\n
So, the garage isn’t officially being demo’d anymore.\u00a0 It’s being jacked up, loaded onto a flatbed trailer, and driven one block over and a few houses down.\u00a0 The neighbour will have to ensure he’s got all the necessary permits in place to affix everything.\u00a0 Moving the garage counts as “removal and\/or demolition” and fits our permit.\u00a0 According to the guys, this will also be a much quicker route to follow.\u00a0 Instead of spending days taking down the garage by hand, they’ll spend a few hours.\u00a0 It’s cheaper too.\u00a0 It costs less to rent the trailer than it does to rent the bin.\u00a0 It’s a win\/win.<\/p>\n
Now all we have to do is get the temporary fencing in place in the backyard before the guys start moving the building.\u00a0 It will be too late once the back fence is down and the garage is gone.\u00a0 I don’t plan on spending a few weeks chasing the dogs around the neighbourhood like we did Bubba a few weeks back.<\/p>\n
The new removal method also has other bonus features.\u00a0 Because it won’t take the entire weekend to accomplish the boys will be able to do the cribbing for the concrete pour tomorrow.\u00a0 Which means our contractor can order up the concrete.\u00a0 There’s a 10 day waitlist for a pour so we likely won’t have it completed before next weekend but it shouldn’t be too long of a wait.\u00a0 Cross your fingers.\u00a0 If all goes well, I’ll have a new garage in place (minus the interior finishing) by the end of the month.<\/p>\n
w00t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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