Phase One: Demolish Old House and Clear Junk

This project started at the beginning of 2006 when I demolished an ancient house that stood on the corner of our property about 100 yards west of our current home. Knocking down the house was easy as I hired a company to come in with their heavy equipment and do it for me. They also loaded most of the old house into dumpsters and hauled it away for me. From that point on the job was in my hands.

Here are some photos of the house before it was knocked down. You can also get a sense of the magnitude of the junk that I had to contend with in these shots: