When vacationing in Florida, my daughters family and mine rented a high-end beach home. Rarely do we do that- usually my choice is a simple no-frills condo close to the beach. But this time was different and I was introduced to the luxury of a rainfall shower head. I decided I wanted one, and now is the […]
D-I-Yourselfers
D-I-Y Mushroom Factor, F-Y-I
Every home remodeler and renovator runs into it at some time, the dreaded mushrooming of a simple project into the monster money pit.
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″ drywall. In this room I […]
Leveling floors & ceilings in 120 year old farm house.
First…A little history. Back in 1985 my wife and I and our 5 children (at the time) purchased an old farm house out in the country that was built in stages beginning in 1894. We had lived in the city and felt it would be a good idea to move to the country. Anyway, after […]
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 understanding this concept that […]
Sump Pumps (Part 3)
Well hey!!! Here I am posting 2 days in a row!!! Today we (my son & I)finished excavating the remaining 4″ or so of clay/subsoil from our sump pit. It had accumulated a small amount of water overnight, which added to the weight of this subsoil. Anyway, after removing this remaining bit of subsoil (down […]
