We are removing 2, possibly 3, decks in our backyard. The wood and attached hardware are all yours if you are willing to remove the decks. We do not know the age of the wood, but the house was built in 1996 and the decks were built after that. It was pressure-washed two years ago, but we do not know anything else about the maintenance of the wood.
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It's true, the time has come to work on the backyard. First step, remove the decks. Now I know some of you are heartbroken that our Swiss-Family-Robinson-On-Crack-Backyard is going to go, but imagine if you had to maintain all of that wood.
My brother suggested I list my decks on Craigslist after he got rid of his that way. I had 5 hits within an hour, and had to remove the posting immediately.
Who wouldn't want a piece of this?
He did get the bridge partially removed, and the angel is now off the blue concrete cylinder.
Who wouldn't want a piece of this?A man named Tony was the first to respond. Now the man who built all of these decks in the first place was named Tony, so we feared that he had found us out and was calling to yell at us. But it wasn't. Craigslist Tony came out with his boys last Saturday and began working away.
About 4 hrs later he called Greg (we were in TN) and said, "I'm really sorry, but I'm giving up. The man that built this deck built it to stay. If a tornado ever comes through, your house may be gone but the deck will still be here."
He did get the bridge partially removed, and the angel is now off the blue concrete cylinder.
So I called Fred, the next guy on the list, and he came and checked it out yesterday and says he can definitely remove it. He will be starting Wednesday, and plans on taking it ALL. Yes, ALL of the wood. I said, "Are you building a deck or a house?"
What to do with the angel...now that's a problem. Here are some options:
Craigslist ad to the highest bidder
White elephant gift next Christmas
Bonus gift to the men who remove our concrete
But the one I'll probably do - hide it somewhere in the backyard and every few years we'll stumble across it and laugh.
3 comments:
Hehehehee....I like the idea of hiding it in the yard :-)
I think Jenny wants it.
PS will you please change your "post Comment" box to a pop-up window? It makes commenting soooo much easier.
Love all the craigslist stories. Seriously, what would we do without it? It will be interesting to see the backyard without all the wood. And the angel - hmmmm... I'm sure you could sell that too.
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