Piled to the Ceiling

We just finished an enormous clean out project in Lynn, MA.  The house had been condemned by the city and the owner hired us to remove all of the trash from the house based on our bid.  We stared on Monday (5/21/12) and had the entire place broom swept by Thursday (5/24/12).  This project was the worst we have seen yet, but the others were formidable as well.  I took before and after pictures and a couple video walkthroughs so you can see the type of projects we have experience with.

This is a picture of a room on the second floor on Tuesday after the path to the window had been cleaned out on Monday.  You wouldn't have been able to see much on day 1 so I waited to take pictures.

This is the same room on Wednesday night.

The house was small, the second floor only consisted of two rooms and a bathroom.  I didn't end up with a good before picture of the second room so here's the bathroom before:

(yes, there was a toilet beneath there) and after:

The ground floor had a kitchen and front room.  The kitchen took two full days to clean up with 2-3 people working on it.  Here is the before picture:

hence the title of this post.

This is a picture of the same room after ~99% of the waste was removed.  The floor hadn't been swept yet because we were still working on the adjacent front room of the first level.

The staircase was packed to the ceiling on day 1, and the picture would have looked just like the before picture of the kitchen so I didn't bother taking any pictures until day 2.  The before picture of the staircase is not nearly as dramatic but you can see how we like to leave a house when we call it done.

Day 2:

Day 4:

Here's a video walkthrough of the second floor from half way through Wednesday.  It starts in the kitchen, the room adjacent to the kitchen hadn't been found quite yet.  Then you can see the upstairs after two and a half 12 hour days:

And here are some of the boys hard at work in the kitchen.

The last video is a walkthrough of the top floor after the cleanup was complete.  The job took roughly 40 hours to complete and yielded a staggering amount of trash; roughly 50 tons!

The last image I will leave you with is a book that was found in the horde.  There were thousands of books in this house, many of which were severely damaged.  This was a piece of comic relief due to the irony of someone who lived in a house like that owning a book like this...

Complete Trash: The Best Way to Get Rid of Practically Everything Around the House

This concludes my update, there will be more to come soon!