Every home remodeler and renovator runs into it at some time, the dreaded mushrooming of a simple project into the monster money pit.
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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 […]
…and the kitchen sink
John, the Muzikdude, is a true D-I-Yerselfer. He has run-in that starts this way: My kitchen sink has a Price Pfister faucet. Things go downhill from there…. but there is no one funnier in recounting the whole long slide into the trials of do it your self land. The satisfaction comes from overcoming all the […]
