another early start as skip number 4 is delivered,
so only one short post today,
one of the 2 areas where we break up the aquariums, the rooms are in fact passageways, but with the doors closed they are sealed as far as broken glass is concerned, we do not want any glass flying about where it could injure a passerby,
in the distance the last stand to be striped down,
we are now seeing walls and pillars for the firsts time again since all of the stands were built and aquariums commissioned,
flaky paint, plaster and wallpaper everywhere,
looking towards the front of the shop, it will be made back to 2 single shop units and what were 2 flats above which we used as storage space returned to being flats,
counters and display stands removed via the skips,
the window over looking the pond section, hopefully all will be cleared by Saturday, having said that we may have to order one more skip on Friday afternoon and then that should be it, in the evening I watched some television, I have to admit, when I arrive home I am absolutely exhausted, I am not used to doing so much physical work, a sign of old age I guess! during the evening Diana called, so out to pick her up from work, arriving home we tucked into some fresh raspberries that Diana had bought, as we watched a Midsomer Murder before we were off to bed.
2 comments:
Why is everything being smashed up and thrown away - is no recycling being done?
Recycling? Absolutely NONE, all of the glass is contaminated with silicone rubber, used in the manufacture of the aquariums, to recycle the glass is totally unprofitable, glass recycling companies want glass in the form of cullet, not with silicon rubber attached, I should explain taking a 4 foot or 5 foot aquarium which makes up some 98% of the aquariums in the shop, each one is divided in to 4 or 5 smaller self contained aquariums by a internal divider of glass, so there is no piece of glass that is more than 6" away from a seal of silicone rubber, and if you have ever tried to cut a internal pane of glass away from the front, back and base of a aquarium you will realize what a impossibility it is. As for the stands they are all made of wood, bolted together with coach bolts, after some 25 or more years rusted beyond easy removable, the good side is the wood was cut into manageable lengths, bolts intact, which made a grand pile for someone's back garden chiminea, maybe that is the wood being recycled? to keep a few people in a garden warm on a summers evening? best regards, Stan and Diana.
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