How Much Trash Can There Be????

Well today we filled, at least ¾ full, another 22 foot dumpster with more construction waste, and it only took us about 2½ hours. I am amazed at how much trash there is, or should I say was in the house. This last load was generated from the demo of the upstairs bathroom, the old duct work from the basement, and just a little bit of waste from the bathroom reno. But it's gone and I can only hope that will be it, at least for a while anyway.

Everything was already in or behind the shed.

The old kitchen and dining room floors I couldn't save.

It does add up.

The back side of the mountain.

This is what it looked like when we started.

The wood is gone.

The mountain is gone.

Lots of room now.

It took an hour to load the wood.

About 1½ hours after the wood was on we were done.

One Big Load

Well we have finally dumped all the old plaster, laths, drywall, sheet rock, dust, dirt, old toilets, did I mention plaster, laths that have been accumulating since Feb 21st when I started pulling down the house. We stored in the shed 48 bags of debris and 19 bags of wood shavings that I got from the floor board restoration part of this project. So we got in a 22 foot dumpster and had to unload every bag so it can go as construction waste, other wise it would be $32 a tonne more to dispose of. I'll find out soon how much we had. Having one large dumpster saved us many trips, and with the gas prices today the rental of this container was well worth it. A couple of pictures of the old material we pulled down and after I run a shop vac through the house it will be clean, at least cleaner and we can start to put it back the way we want it.

The best location for the container, right out the front door, easy to carry out the drywall, but it was a little trip with the wheel barrel from the shed. Thankfully they were in bags.

We started loading from the front, piling the old bat insulation and putting the old laths to keep them from blowing away.

This is all we had for the container, anything smaller wouldn't have worked. I had to cover it with a few tarps on the weekend, we got some snow and I didn't want the stuff wet adding to the tonnage.