Sunday, July 12, 2015

House of Shards

Building a house is messy. Building a new house on top of an old basement is messier. Here is a sampling.

One of the previous owners was fond of affixing things to the basement walls: cabinets, hooks, shelves. To secure the screws, he use plastic sleeves, and slivers of wood, some that would function as serviceable vampire stakes. We removed them by screwing a drywall screw halfway in, then pulling the sleeve out with a claw hammer. We filled the holes with cement. Problem solved!







Someone's toy horse emerged from the earth around the house.
The old standby cigarette pack shim
The television schedule from December 28, 1963

Lots of water
And mud
Mud dripping down the walls
And on the window frames
Oozing insulation
Excess insulation cut off to accommodate the drywall
Dust, lots of dust

Messages from the past
Extra venting
Various construction trash
Metal filings
The end of a corrugated steel siding sheet
Still don't know who these belong to























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