The attic crawl space that went from a horror movie set to a clean run in a single day

I mean, I got a call for a rewire job in a house built in the 70s. The attic was a total nightmare, idk, maybe 30 years of old cable, phone lines, and dust bunnies the size of my fist. It was a solid 8 inches deep of just junk. We spent the whole morning clearing it out, filled three of those big contractor bags. By 3 PM, we had a single, clean coax and ethernet run stapled neat along the joist. The homeowner came up, looked at it, and just said 'I didn't even know there was a floor up here.' Has anyone else had a clean-out job that felt like an archeological dig?

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beththomas16d ago

Cleared out a 90s basement last month and found a stack of AOL trial CDs two feet high. Felt like unearthing a time capsule.

the_derek16d ago

Man, that brings back some memories. Those CDs were EVERYWHERE for a solid decade. Finding a stack like that is the perfect 90s artifact.

hugo_grant12d ago

Finding a two-foot stack of AOL CDs sounds about right (my parents' basement was basically a landfill for those things).