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The Anatomy of Demolishing an Old House
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By:
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Cherokee
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accomplished
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01/01/2010 02:12:33
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None
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LAST DECEMBER 2004, WE decided to transfer residence to a new, yet, unfinished house on the same place and on the same address. What used to be an airy space infront of the old house is now occupied by this two-storey steel-and-concrete structure which we now proudly call home. Said house was started construction last May 2003 and occupies a 40-odd square meters of space, which was then serving as our frontyard and was planted then with acacia, eucalyptus and caimito trees that all gave a cool shade and whose topmost branch and twigs towered that of the old two-storey house. The old house, which was constructed in 1974, served as a house for rent for many years and a source of income to our family until that great conflagration in our neighborhood at Barangay Tinago on January 1988 did our family utilized it as a temporary home. My family left the place after a new house was constructed in Lahug and I moved in here with my wife on December of that year. Both of my boys were born and reared there. As we abandon the old place, I decided to demolish it by myself to give us free space which we surrendered many months ago due to the construction of that new house. Only there were no available time for me back then to actively pursue that objective until...READ MORE (Press CTRL + click mouse)
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