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Typical Saturday : 6 Weeks to move in

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By Natalie
Our house is once again under contract! This means we have about six weeks to carve out a space in our Bunny Manse that is safe, clean, and functional.
 
To this end, on Friday night I loaded the pick up truck with 80% of the metal that's remaining from our previous three metal runs. Bill came over around 7:30am Saturday to help me get the broken range (shredder steel) and weird old blower motor (shredder steel) onto the truck.
 
During the process, I asked him how I was supposed to sort it all, the magnet just picked it up before and today I have copper. Bill schooled me on 'precious' versus steel. I'm supposed to say in the steel yard that I have other types of metal. They'll test it and then send me to the precious sorting facility.
 
I now understand why people steal copper.
 
Truckload of metal - $24 (240 lbs)
The two skinny copper pipes leading up to the stainless sink we removed + two stainless sinks + random pots and pans = $13.46 (39 lbs)
 
Lesson learned.
 
 
 
We had a day. Harris scraped paint, Bill scraped paint, I peeled wallpaper off of the plaster in the dining room.  All of this work is limited to when we have care for Madeline, she cannot be anywhere near the house right now because of all of the dust.  
 
Today, Sunday, I'll peel some more wallpaper from the plaster. Bill will, if he's looking to hustle, scrape paint from the kitchen ceiling. Harris is rather limited in his house duties because of surgery, but he's doing what he can. Last night he removed some random remaining paneling and put up new utilitarian light fixtures.
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