The Waldenburg Chronicles

Each time we go to the houses we seem to find something new. On the last trip, we were removing the rest of the kitchen and the walls. Behind one of the walls was another wall, and on that one was the Einsatzplan for the 1994 Waldenburg Weihnachtsmarkt. After we carried the rest of the electric devices down the very narrow stairs, we made a start on removing the chipboard floor. There were signs that under the chipboard floor was another hard floor with glass flecks in it.  There was a hard floor, just not over the entire area. It took the form of where we think that an older room may have been. The left side of the room near the windows was old floorboards, and on the right, nothing but a hole down to the floor below!     We removed a lot of large heavy chipboard! So much so that Kathrin didn't want to get out of the way when I was taking the pictures. After taking some planks of wood away that we found under where the fridge was, we found yet another floor.

We've just spent a few days clearing out all the rubbish that we created over the past few weeks while breaking down walls and taking up floors to see what was behind and underneath. The first skip was 6 cubic meters. As we had a lot of rubble to shift from both houses, we decided to get a rubbish tube to go down to the skip. Installing this tube was a lot easier in planning than it was in doing. The frame to hold the tube is too large to fit up the narrow stairs, so we had to attach a rope and pull it up the outside. It's also very heavy and only narrowly fits into the small windows that we have. It took a while to get it attached but we managed it between the two of us. That was only the frame though, we had to get each of the tube sections connected one by one afterwards too. This turned out to be more difficult than the frame, it took longer but we managed this too.   After getting the tube set up, filling the skip seemed a lot easier.  It was filled with most