It's kind of interesting and even creepy to find about what previous owners have done to your house. When I began this house painting project (that is, when I started looking for painters), the fact that the back wall of the garage had not been painted in years, leaving it a different color from the rest of the house and garage, was pointed out to me. Well, there's a fence back there, and I had had no occasion to take a look, which, believe you me, I definitely will in future houses! Anyway, I thought I should trim some of the trees back there to help the painter out. In doing so, I discovered that one of the previous owners had taken out carpeting only to discard it behind the garage. With great effort, I dug it out, cut parts of the individual rugs, bound them, and took them to the street to be picked up by the city trash removal service (with a fee of $7.50 per bundle, and there were three bundles). It was a messy job, and I cursed several times at the fact that I was removing things from this house that should have been taken care of years ago. Now I'm going to try to level out the soil behind the garage, so that the painter can paint the bottom boards. I hope I don't discover anything else back there!
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