The Other Lumber Company
I should probably explain about The Other Lumber Company. There might be one or two people reading this blog that know about it but it will shed great light for others.
Back in my early to mid-20’s five of us, myself included, launched The Other Lumber Company in Rickreall, Oregon. We managed to survive for a few years. We dismantled houses. Mostly old, old houses. We did not tear them down. We dismantled them carefully, piece by piece, de-nailed and trimmed the lumber and re-sold it in our lumberyard.
We also sold fixtures, hardware, windows, doors, glass doorknobs. Antique mouldings, most of which had long ceased to be milled, were a particularly good source of income for us.
I have been involved in every aspect of house dismantling from tearing off the roof, to pushing down walls (a chainsaw or sawzall is required first!), removing plumbing and electrical fixtures, gently, oh so gently prying up tongue-and-goove hardwood flooring (it is inclined to splinter), and yes, taking sledge hammers to those unsalvageable bits.
So I know just how to get wood paneling off without wrecking parts of the wall or door jamb that one is inclined to save. I can sort out which wall is weight bearing and which can come down with no worries.
We even got written up in the newspaper a couple times—once in the Sunday edition with a full half-page photo of all of us in our lumberyard. I still have that. I saw it not too long ago—if I run across it again I’ll scan and post.
So there you see, I’m not just making this up. I actually do know how to rip, plan, and re-birth a house.
And there is really nothing quite so satisfying as taking a sledge hammer to a wall or a wonder-bar to a ceiling.
Do scroll down--I posted twice this evening--and see what we've accomplished already at the Pieterse Palace!
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