Reuse, Restore, Recycle Part 2

Our Restore took all of our appliances.

Kitchen refrigerator

Kitchen range, complete with instruction packet

Kitchen dishwasher

Apartment refrigerator

Apartment range

There was wall-to-wall carpet in all the rooms except the kitchens and bathrooms. A neighbor pulled up and took half of it to use as landscape cloth in his yard. Thanks, Adam! A friend took most of the paneling you can see in the photo of Adam.

You can see from the above photo that, while hardwood, the floors were not salvageable. Some rooms had finished floors in bad shape, while others had beveled boards without finish—subfloor really. Our contractor Dave pulled all the floors up and put into the dumpster. That was a disappointment. We had hoped to donate the floor boards or reuse them in the new house.

The trim went the way of the floorboards.

We removed most of the interior doors and frames. By door nine I had finally figured out how to use the reciprocating saw. Thanks to Mads for her demo expertise, volunteer labor, and excellent company one long Saturday. We managed to extract one replacement window (circa 2000), but it was installed in such a way that it took over an hour. Unfortunately, that fact, and the subpar quality of the windows meant that they, too, ended up in the dumpster.

Dave and team detached some built-in dressers and bathroom vanities—better tools and nerve: Laura, Mads, and I couldn't budge them. All went to the Restore. Even the pink clothes hamper from the master bath in the middle left of the photo.

It's almost time to venture into the basement to see what fun we had down there.