Last weekend I decided to take down the old space heater in the corner of our garage. Bryan, Jess, Jared, and Alan were over, and Mary Sue and Gaoder could watch Cecilia while we did this. We started the project with high hopes and confidence that it would go smoothly. We'd just climb up, unscrew it, and carry it down.
However, it was hanging with these HUGE rusty bolts, so we had to go to OSH to buy a huge wrench. The wrench that Jared is holding below got one of the bolts off, but wasn't big enough for the other one! Why would they have used two different bolt sizes...
Once we had it unscrewed, we propped it up on the metal shelf unit, and wondered what to do next... It was far too heavy and high for us to easily and safely get it to the ground, though it would have been nice to preserve it in case someone on Craigslist wanted to buy it... But it wasn't worth risking it falling on us.
So we put a bunch of drywall on the ground to soften the fall, wrapped an electrical cord around it, and pulled. :)
Some damage to the corner, as you can see...
And then the garage looked a lot better!
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