Posted by chris | Posted in Project Updates, Video | Posted on 10-11-2009
Things are zipping right along at the site. The asbestos guys came in and removed what turned out to be a lot of asbestos. Not only was it in the shingles on the outside, it was also in the floors of the garage, kitchen, family room and halls. Cutting edge at the time it was installed, it’s now making our house lot a haz-mat site! But they’re done, and now it’s time for the men of Trillenium Services to get in there and swing the giant excavator into action. See the accompanying video for the scale of the thing… it will knock the house down, pull the foundations up out of the ground, load it all into dumpsters and leave us with what should look like a battleground as our house site.
As a note I’ve spoken to all the neighbors about the new house, and about the landscape and tree work we’ll do, and why we’re doing all this, and aside from bracing for the noise they’re pretty excited about the project. I didn’t reach Kevin, our neighbor to the left as you face the house, until after the excavator had been parked in the driveway for a day, and the shingles were off the house. Needless to say he’d figured out what was going to happen, and was happy to see us join the neighborhood. Nice to be surrounded by good people on all sides, both in Newton and in Westwood!