No demolition of the basement yet.
First we have to declutter the accumulated junk from my wife's family (50 year span!).
That pic doesn't do service to how much crap I pulled out already. Many of the larger things aren't in the dumpster yet because I need lifting assistance.
There were tons of old tools. Large wrenches, 50 chisels, 25 hammers, innumerable coffee cans full of rusty nails, etc. Two massive desks that had to be disassembled to fit out the narrow doorways. Steel shelves bound by stripped rusty screws that also had to be taken apart.
I was so filthy yesterday....by boogers were black!
We will fill this thing up in no time. Junk is still all over our attic, the garage, the shed, and the yard.
Still haven't decided what to do about the demolition. The contractor's $4,500 seems steep.
It looks like there are few neanderthals on Craigslist who claim they will, "beat any estimate."
I'm thinking more like $2,500 for a demo. I will call the cavemen either tonight or tomorrow after I finish emptying the basement.
Verizon wants $135 to move our internet connection upstairs. On the phone I told them to, "go eff themselves." Not really.
It's bull$hit. We pay them nearly $300 a month for cell phones, color TV, a house phone that doesn't work, and internet.
And when we had it installed originally - 3 years ago - they had the stones to charge me like $450 or something. I'm pretty sure I blogged it.
I was in shock. Cable installation was FREE every other place I lived. After all, they are going to get over $1,000 per year back from a new customer.
But I think this is one of those typical NYC-are jam-jobs. Verizon figures you live in NY....so they can charge you more. This crap really pisses me off.
Everytime I call a service or contractor for a price the first thing they want to know is, "What town do you live in?"
They pulled the same crap up in Cohasset, MA when we lived there. Some maid service wanted $1,000 to clean the entire house!
How much does FiOs installation cost where y'all live?
3 comments:
hey you might get some money selling the tools on craigslist. I took the old a/c compressor that I had replaced and some odds and ends to the metal recycling place & walked away w/ $78 ... there should be a metal recyle place on L.I.
+1 on what the other poster said. The tools are worth something especially the chisels if they are for wood and not all rusty.
So I pulled all the metal out...
A guy came by to pick up some furniture that I was giving away...
He said all my metal was worth, in total, $10.
He happened to be a contractor himself.
I took pics and will post them tomorrow.
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