Well, it isn't pretty, but what remains of the cottage is very little. C-CAP spent the last few days taking apart the roof and wall sections that were on the ground before carting most all of the materials off site using a U-Haul truck. The photo here shows the last, and smallest, load of materials. While there are two valuable beams in the truck, most of the wood in here is destined to be chipped once it is de-nailed. SUNY-ESF has offered to provide this service, allowing the wood to be re-used on the site of the "hoop" house that C-CAP is building in the southside neighborhood in order to provide fresh veggies to a population that has little access to healthy food.
The dumpster is filled with asphalt shingles, fiberglass insulation, plastic materials, and some wood (most painted) that couldn't be recycled or re-used. The material in the cellar isn't that deep, and is mainly torn wood scrap and the soft particleboard that was used before plywood came along. It will be covered with the stone blocks that surround the foundation, and the pile of soil and stone that is adjacent to the hole. Then we'll just need a giant magnet to find all those nails.....:)
Once C-CAP has time to store all the material, they'll have a final tally for us on the deconstruction waste stream.
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| This is the third U-Haul truck, with the previous two loads being near full. Imagine if all of that material needed a dumpster.... |
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| Foreground: an old cistern that was used to collect rainwater from a spout running off the roof until the late 1970's. Background: The remaining foundation that will be knocked in, and then covered with the adjacent soil pile. |
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| It was a long day, of dull work, but Mike, Brad and Izzy are still able to give me a smile! |
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