Oh the heat...

Last weekend, we loaded up a full container with all the garbage stripped from the walls. We need the house pulled back to the bones so the contractors can come in and have a clear view of everything.

As you saw in the last post, this was the task at hand:

All that junk had to leave the basement. By hand. Honestly, just the thought of moving it all makes my head spin again. But by Sunday afternoon, the space looked like this:

The heat was absolutely suffocating. It was around 30 Celsius, but add on the humidity, we were creeping close to 40. The small grace was that we were working in the basement. But we still had to haul our garbage cans of crap up the stairs...then down the front stairs and into our waiting container:

PLUS...yes it gets worse. The dust was terrible and the nails and debris was flying. So a mask and glasses were necessary.

Anyway, enough moaning. We did the ugly, sweaty job, I was spent by the end of the weekend, but the house is clearing out really nicely. As messy as this job is, I get a lot of satisfaction out of digging in there and getting intimate with the new home.