The Pit - Clean-up

The people who owned the house before us had a swing set that sat in a mulch pit with a mini sandbox. We don't have a swing-set or kids. There's no immediate plan for needing a mulch pit. Last year, we wanted to rip it up but we didn't know what to do with the stuff. Tony and I both grew up with woods behind our homes. This was great for dumping leaves, grass, etc. Here, we don't have that luxury. So over the past year, we just left it. 

The Pit

When Tony and his dad re-did the pool deck, the old plywood went to the pit. When I trimmed the maple trees in front of our house, the branches went to the pit. When my dad and I made the new door to the garage, the old one when to the pit. This spring, I raked leaves while Tony trimmed the bushes in the back of the house. All of the leaves and bush trimmings, went to the pit. Now we had this huge pile of stuff that we needed to get rid of. 

The Full Pit

I called our garbage people and we could get a roll-off for a minimum of $112. This would be best case scenario if we did it all in one day and had 1/2 ton of debris. Anything more and the price would climb. I thought we could do better than that so I went to craigslist. I posted the ad and one day later plus $60, the big stuff was gone. Two guys came, in the pouring rain, and took the big stuff away. One guy finally came back this past weekend and took away the remaining stuff. 

Cleared Pit

We need to finish stirring up the soil and plant some new grass.  Hopefully in a month or so, the pit will be a distant memory.