Monthly Archives: December 2011

Excessive Series: Holiday Edition

Dirty Dave and I went to check out a rural property. Here’s what we found:  

A Quick Peek Into Stranger’s Refuse

I went and checked out a job in a first-ring suburb the other day. It was mostly piles of junk: clothes, odd pieces of lumber, dirty blinds, dusty brik-a-brak. It wasn’t a truly fascinating trashout like this one or this … Continue reading

Giving Back

Dirty Dave is full of Christmas cheer. Bursting with it. So much so, that he has infected all of us at DuAll with his unique Christmas spirit. Dave spearheaded a fundraising campaign to purchase toys for children with cancer. Through … Continue reading

More Images of Abandonment

I had to leave the office for a while yesterday to check out a possible excessive trashout and check if an abandoned vehicle was free to be towed away. In the end, the trashout was not excessive, and the vehicle … Continue reading

A Mint Tarp Job, Revisited

This morning, Dirty Dave and I drove past a house that our DuAll extraordinaire Randy Ivesdale and his famous tarp job.   In that post, though, it had just snowed and I couldn’t fully appreciate the quality of his tarp … Continue reading

You Can’t Take It With You

A fully furnished living room. A ransacked bedroom thick with jettisoned outfits, overturned mattresses, and photographs. Kitchen cupboards stuffed with rice, soup, pasta, sugar. Half-restored cars in a barn. It is oftentimes awe-inspiring to come across the items that people … Continue reading

McMansions, Estates, and Fallow Grandeur: The New Wave of Foreclosures

I’ve been posting a lot about the dilapidated, rotten side of the foreclosure crisis. More and more, however, we’re seeing more expensive homes that have fallen into foreclosure. This is follows the national trend of three waves of foreclosures. According … Continue reading

Transforming a Basement

Luke Anderson, one of our Regional Operations Managers, sent me these pictures of a water extraction. When we get a report of a flooded basement, we send out a special ops team to evaluate the situation, and then take action. … Continue reading

Pimp This Ride

First thing first: DuAll is back in the news. Twin Cities Metro Mag published an article on our trash art in the latest issue of the print mag. You can find the article online, too. Now on to today’s business. … Continue reading