It seems I spend an awful lot of my time climbing into strange corners of my house and cutting things in half. Today's adventure involved the crawlspace and a few hundred feet of galvanized steel pipe.
One of the previous owners had the entire plumbing system in this house pulled out and replaced with brand-new copper piping—which is totally sweet, except that the contractor left all of the old galvanized down in the crawlspace, which is technically against code.
So since I had to get down in the crawlspace anyway1, I took the opportunity to finally hack most of the pipe into 2' lengths so it can be dumped into my recycling bin. Unfortunately, I've left the longest piece down there (it's still attached to the water heater blowoff?) but the rest of the detritus is now gone.
1 This was to see if Layla's suggestion to route our new antenna lines down an interior wall and through the crawlspace would work out. Unfortunately, the wall footers are (as I suspected) laid directly on the foundation, and the floor is laid so far down that there's not enough space to drill into the wall to run a cable up. Bummer.
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