final demolition

I was happy to hear from Josh that we were able to donate all the appliances and cabinets. not only are we helping to re-use, we'll get a donation credit for it! we kept the rear bath cabinet & sink as we plan to re-use it ourselves. This was at Building Resources in SF.

one hiccup we found is that the exterior siding is full of nails. our plan was to recycle the exterior siding to use for patch jobs. it's solidly bolted to plywood underneath and it's been a long process just to remove from the 2x4 studs. we haven't really tried to remove the siding from the plywood yet. Bob Ortiz is not confident that we can salvage it, so we'll see if it's less hassle to find a supplier or mill it.

the flooring in the family room was much easier to remove than we thought; it was only nailed down, not glued. unfortunately we weren't able to donate it to Building Resources in SF, so that went to the dump.

on a more positive note, we had the 3 debris boxes sorted & recycled as much as possible, so we won't have any problem meeting Burlingame's recycling requirement of 60%.

Eric, our electrician, wired up the 2 bathrooms and a few outlets for the guys to use, so now we have power inside the house. but he found the wiring under the house is not done well; it's a spaghetti mess of multiple splicings. he'll be able to re-use most of the wiring but will need to re-do the current configuration to fit into our electrical plan.