This is the dining room wall being carefully taken apart.
This is the dining room wall taken apart and collected into tidy piles of lathes and studs and plaster.
This is a pile of chunked concrete removed from the uneven otherwise mostly red clay basement floor. It has been hauled away and ground into gravel.
This is the gravel used to level the basement floor before the concrete is poured.
Now all of these posts are gone from the basement, but they are still around, waiting to be milled into wood for a table and a slatted wall, which will be held together with nails pulled from the lathes.
These are doors, removed from the walls that were taken down. And they will be doors again in the basement or elsewhere upstairs.
This is old asbestos covered ductwork, now properly disposed of, never to be heard from again.
Hey, you can’t reuse everything, but we are having fun trying.
This is a project I came across that is pretty full of information on reuse.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4184/is_20080805/ai_n27978466/
The woman’s blog tells even more about it. I think it is shannonquimby.com
the reuse everything project
As for our project, most recently leftover drywall was chipped with some older small wood pieces to make mulch.
Greetings,
My name is Bill Hawthorne, and I represent maacenter.org, a leading web resource for asbestos exposure and mesothelioma cancer information. Our organization is dedicated to increasing awareness of the terrible health consequences of asbestos exposure through the distribution of the best informational materials and public outreach efforts.
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Bill Hawthorne
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