Construction and Industrial Articles
posted on 11 August 2011
My biggest clean up was after my brother's twentieth birthday. There were about 40 to 50 people in our house and nobody cared about the next day, so the mess was pretty big. My parents wouldn't be coming home for another day so we had time, but that day was pretty stressful. Both of my bathrooms were all in puke so I told my brother to deal with that, while I tried to clean up the hall, where there were glass and liquor all over the place. Thank God, we had 3 friends to help us. The first one tried to clean up the living room and kitchen using anything from wonder wipes to velcro ties (for loose cabling). The living room had a passed out man sleeping on the carpet, plenty of dishes on the dining table, many bottles also. There were two broken chairs in the kitchen so we had to hide them. The second friend tried to clean up all the bedrooms. There were lost clothes and stuff after everybody had driven away. Also the whole house was stinking so we opened all the windows for the day. The third friend was in the garden where my mom’s flowers were ruined and most of the grass was puked on. We tried to wash it all away with water but it was worthless. Of course the whole house needed to be washed with a rag. One of the girls which stayed did that. After all the mess we cleaned up it didn't look that bad, but our parents saw that there had been a wild party so they cut our allowance by a half. But I and my brother don't regret that night because it was great. |
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posted on 9 August 2011
The biggest cleanup operation that I have ever dealt with in my life so far has to be when I had to clean up the yard after hurricane Lily. Having worked in tank cleaning services in the past, I was used to big cleaning jobs. The hurricane knocked down many trees in the neighborhood, including one of the neighbor’s trees that landed in my yard. Alongside picking up all of the debris left from the storm, I had to take a 50 foot oak tree and cut it up into smaller pieces just to be able to burn it. Living in the city limits, you can’t burn, so I used a BBQ pit to do that job. There was so much debris it took me over a week to get it all out of the yard to put things back to normal. When the trash company came to pick everything up it took them over a month to get everyone’s trash bags full of trash and debris out of the streets. I don’t want to go through that again! |
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posted on 24 April 2011
Yahoo news featured an interesting article about how old buildings were refurbished into something more useful. The rising cost of real estate and property has urged people to find creative ways of up scaling structures that you never thought would look elegant and livable as an end result. Normally you would see these structures reused in an eerie, zombie themed movie. But the pictures on the website show that with the use of recyclable materials and a well thought of design plan, these old structures can become a real estate haven.
One of the structures that were featured was a typical steel building. It used to be a tower type grain silo! The new owner took advantage of the silo’s durable steel foundation and exteriors. He incorporated more windows into the design and placed indoor insulation making the interiors more comfortable to live in. With the silo’s high structure he was able to make a second floor with a wrap around balcony and cubby- like bedroom pods for his grandchildren and guests. |
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posted on 11 April 2011
Just as the title says, untidy streets are something that everybody wants to get rid of, but still nobody is willing to see any effort towards it. In fact, almost everybody seems to make the situation just worse, they wish the streets were clean, but then they anyways litter more and more, throw their cigarettes in the ground and empty fast food packages out from the car window on the freeway. We see petrol pressure washers and the like used by both private and public companies and expect them to clean up afer us. Keeping streets untidy is a problem for everybody, since it makes any landscape look ugly, and in catastrophical scales, it will start to spread diseases. I believe that we all should start doing something about this problem, and take that empty candy bag into the trashbin, or maybe find a more appropriate place to put that cigarette butt of yours than the walkway. When we all see just a little bit of effort, it will result as a positive change for all of us! |
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posted on 9 March 2011
I love my house, and I can't imagine living anywhere else but with that said, my house is a money pit. It's too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter, the plumbing is sub-par, it's old, noisy and falling apart. My house needs a good old-fashioned overhaul.
I'd love to get a team of DIYers in, kitted with heavy-duty tools like masonry saws and whatnot to complete the tasks necessary!
Windows and doors need to be re-insulated and/or placed to reduce heat escaping and cold air coming in. This should be done in conjunction with the vents being cleaned, to ensure air flows properly throughout the house cooling or heating it entirely, not just one floor. The kitchen would get a completely redone, starting with replacing the cupboard doors as the current ones are old, warn out looking and some are falling off the hinges. The counter top is stained and marked up from years of abuse so I would replace it and at the same time add a second sink for convenience sake. I would replace our appliances with new ones, especially the noisy, energy wasting fridge. Lastly I would redo all the floors. I would take out the carpet and ugly kitchen tile then replace it all with hardwood. That's the dream |
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