A week ago I was lamenting our to-be-demolished garage and confessing my hypocrisy at not reclaiming resources that someone else could use (Three seconds to reclaim ... time's up).
The day I wrote the blog it was cold, windy, and included some stinging rain. In other words, not a day I was outside pondering the fate of reusable resources in our garage.
A week of guilt can do wonders for your resolve. A break in the weather didn't hurt, either.
I had to do SOMETHING!
Rescued
- Four feet of a sandstone retaining wall that would have been lost to the new footprint. I can use to a) rebuild the wall once the new structure is in place, b) landscape around our maple tree or c) create a new tier to our wall for planting flowers or veggies
- A wall-mounted wooden cabinet
- Four sets of bicycle hooks
- Two motion detector lights and their four flood lamps (one a CF)
- Two indoor light bulbs (one a CF)
- Garage door opener and its track
- Eight decorator concrete blocks that can be used for landscaping (or find a home through FreeCycle!)
- A concrete clamshell garden ornament -- weighs a ton!
Recycled
- Aluminum rain gutters
- Old aluminum screen doors that had been relegated to the garage
Regrets
- The insulated garage door on the neighbor's half
- Old growth scrap lumber -- ever heard of 4" x 5" (actual) dimensional lumber?
- Six-month old cedar 4' X 8' board siding that had covered one face
- Structural lumber that could have been burned by someone with a fireplace
- Ancient roof tiles -- I didn't know they were clay tile until they crashed to the ground
- A holly bush (though there might still be a chance of rescuing it if I can find the right "muscle" and equipment to grab the root ball)
No time for second thoughts. The garage was flattened less than 60 seconds after The Mustang took its first bite.
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