The second of our Christmas Tree clear up tasks, exploring the streets of Hackney for the final few stragglers. We dragged a big hoard of trees to the collection skip which was surprisingly empty with trees lying on the ground surrounding it. So for a bonus good deed we hurled many a tree through the air into the skip. It was raining trees and in no time the skip was full. Well done everyone!

Welcome Duncan on first good deed, nice one!

Upon arriving at Ms P's she asked us which wardrobe we thought we would be helping with this evening...we outlined the task description as provided to us in the hope this would make things all a bit clearer...

Ms P initially showed us into one room where a very (very) large glass sliding door wardrobe was standing against one wall - she explained she would need that moved at some point, but that perhaps tonight's mission should focus on another 3 door wardrobe in another bedroom - this one seemed a bit more manageable, and upon being asked how long we thought we'd need to take it apart into its constituent parts, we guesstimated an hour...

With multiple tools in hand, Anne and I got to work to deconstruct the unit piece by piece - as with all the best jobs we started with the doors (which fortunately didn't need blowing off...) - and then turned our attention to how best to take the carcass apart without it all collapsing on top of us.

A good while later we were down to the shell of the unit, which now with the top removed, wasn't proving to be the most stable. Anne got a decent shoulder workout holding up all the vertical pieces as we 'd then worked out the only way to remove the remaining screws holding these pieces in place was by tipping the unit over at an angle...and with that it finally all came apart in our hands.

We neatly stacked all the pieces against one wall, left the screws, nails and fasteners in a small jar, and did a quick tidy up of the room as best we could and at just after 8pm we went downstairs to update Ms P - amazingly our timing had been just about spot on!

Mrs E's kitchen table was on it's last legs. Only three of those were actually still attached. So it was time for the table to move on and out.

Being a solid specimen, topped with tiles, the table was too heavy for Mrs E to move herself so GoodGym popped round to lend a hand.

Nick was quick to get under the table and explore its structural integrity in greater detail. He was equally quick to get back out from under the table when he realised the remaining legs were coming off very easily indeed. Unusually, not a single tool was required.

By this stage, the duo had answered the initial question of whether and how the table would fit through the kitchen door. With the table now in 5 manageable parts, it was quickly extracted from the property and laid down next to the bins for collection.