Monday
Oct012007
Fade Away and Radiate
Monday, October 1, 2007 at 10:20AM
Here's a happy update on my radiator moving extravaganza...
I almost broke my ankle!! Hooray!
I mean, ouch. Thank heavens it's just a sprain that's healing quickly. Let me just say that the dude at the scrap metal place was WAY off...some of these things weighed a LOT more than 400 pounds. And moving them downstairs is murder.
We did manage to get 6 of the 9 radiators out of the house including The Beast of the Foyer which I estimate weighed close to 800 pounds. Seriously. I still have three more upstairs - one in my bedroom, one in the office, and one in the back bedroom which is on the smaller side. My friends the helped Saturday said they'd be willing to help get the others out some time, but I imagine we'll all be taking some time off before we scare the crap out of ourselves again by carrying more cast iron down the stairs.
I may just cut them to pieces with the Sawzall instead :-)
I almost broke my ankle!! Hooray!
I mean, ouch. Thank heavens it's just a sprain that's healing quickly. Let me just say that the dude at the scrap metal place was WAY off...some of these things weighed a LOT more than 400 pounds. And moving them downstairs is murder.
We did manage to get 6 of the 9 radiators out of the house including The Beast of the Foyer which I estimate weighed close to 800 pounds. Seriously. I still have three more upstairs - one in my bedroom, one in the office, and one in the back bedroom which is on the smaller side. My friends the helped Saturday said they'd be willing to help get the others out some time, but I imagine we'll all be taking some time off before we scare the crap out of ourselves again by carrying more cast iron down the stairs.
I may just cut them to pieces with the Sawzall instead :-)
Reader Comments (3)
Why were you getting rid of these again? Just didn't want them taking up space since they weren't being used?
Well yeah, that's part of it - but Valerie also wants to start painting several rooms in the house, so we figured it'd be a good idea to get the radiators out of the way so we could paint behind them.
I updated my site again...pretty please link me up. I'm going to start updating it more often.