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Rebuilding A Bedroom: The Walls

And now for the walls: Now that the old ceiling has been totally removed and the old oak joists exposed, it was time to remove the old plaster & lath walls.  In 2 previous rooms I had done, I left all 4 plastered walls intact and faced them with 1/4″...
What Is the Mushroom Factor?

What Is the Mushroom Factor?

fixing up old houses That is the question of the day, isn’t it? Well, though I wrote a small blurb about it early in the days of this blog, I found that Squidoo had no search results for it. That is right: a whole huge online community had no resource for...

New Kitchen – cabinets, countertop

Now that all the major, structural stuff was complete:New floor down to and including the joistsNew ceiling including new raftersNew interior walls and exterior siding including studs, etc.All new plumbing & electricalWe were now ready for the cabinet maker to...

New Kitchen – continued

Before I continue I would like to say that if I had realized all the work that I was going to be getting myself into, I would have somehow talked myself out of this project using whatever excuses I could think up: “it is way beyond my capability &...

One Hardworking Man

When you live through all that there is much that you just take in stride (or suffer through- you pick), but when I read through Handyman’s account I started to remember just how hard he worked… and keeps working. We can say we were nuts, that we would not...