So, we get a five-day contract to clean up the storm damage at a customer's property. Lots of trees all over the place.
This is just one small corner of her property. There are at least a dozen spots like this.
And I still think they're lucky this didn't set off the propane tank.
The "silly rich people" part of all this is that the customers are tearing down their house and putting up a new one fifty feet away. Why? "Because the hallways are too thin. You have to hold the laundry basket sideways to get through to the kid's bedrooms." That's what she said to me.
So...
The crazy part is they left all kinds of stuff in the house. She, the customer, told me the house is getting torn down Thursday so take whatever you want. OK! Me and a few buddies looted the place like madmen. In the pic above you can see the windows that got cut out. Nice double pane crank case windows. We got about a dozen out. We also tore out all the kitchen cabinets (which still had stuff in them), wood paneling, bathroom fixtures, lighting, and a few truckloads of other stuff. They even left brand new stuff in there like a $200 Italian coffee maker which now sits comfortably in my kitchen. The bathroom upstairs had a jacuzzi bathtub and a really nice walk in shower with a glass doors, a 5x6 mirror, and a wall heated towel rack that bolts to the wall. We took the towel heater and the cabinets, but the rest had to stay. No time to take it out.
I also, with some effort, managed to abscond with a 400LB piece of granite which is going in my backyard. (I used small pipes to roll it out onto the balcony and right over the edge onto the grass. It landed and sunk a foot into the grass and stood straight up. Thank you God. Much easier to tip it into the truck.
Right now I'm in my computer room which is stuffed full of kitchen cabinets and chairs we took, and the downstairs is full of drawers and small tables and kids toys they left as well. My buddy loaded two full trucks (Ford F350 dumper) of stuff out of there just for him. It was like Christmas. The customer didn't mind a bit but it take a helluva lotta work to get all that stuff out.
Rich people... I tell ya. I'll get a few shots of the house today. Should be flat by lunch. Can't wait until the day is over, it's been a huge week, Work all day, loot all night, Not a lot o sleep. (But lots of free stuff!)
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