4 hours ago
by Todd Thomas |
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Well one of the first things we needed to do was decide where we wanted the stairwell, now this house had a full walkout basement put on it years ago and the laundry area was in the basement,,,,they walked around the house to get in and than later on they cut a hole in the floor with a ladder….........now you wouldn’t think a stairwell would take up so much room…......we designed the stairs to go about 2/3rds the way and have a landing and cut back the rest of the way down.
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19 hours ago
by amyharry |
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Wedding date comes near at hand. Choosing wedding dresses has been submitted to schedule and also becomes a big tough task for me. My friends tell me the following three styles are fashion now. I have to made comparison among them.
Simple Style?
Simple design could build up to the special character of ladies. However how to emphasize on the merits and avoid demerits is a tough point with simple designs in the international fashion industry. The excellent pruning and material are the bes...
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2 days ago
by Todd Thomas |
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After the clean up we put 2 heavy coats of Dry-Loc on all the basement walls, there were signs of water but I think most of that was due to not having any gutters on the house and the grade slants towards the house…..
After that we took all the walls down and had one big 1650 sq ft room up stairs with a matching 1650 room downstairs….the old houses here in Oak Ridge do not have any bearing walls, so you can move them anywhere you want and the great thing is that the hardwood fl...
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3 days ago
by Todd Thomas |
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For the last 8 months I have been remodeling/building a home for us to live in, the old ”this is our last house” deal….I bought this house to fix up and flip BUT on the way to filling almost 3 dumpsters with trash and debris my wife said that this house felt like home and she loved the yard and location, our lot backs up to a green belt area, woods and it is at the 2nd highest elevation in town and we can see the mountains in the winters.
I am by no means an expert/mast...
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10 days ago
by Mark Shymanski |
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Life sure can throw you some weird curves…we are renovating our bathroom because an inattentive driver wrote off our mini-van.
Hello all, this is my first post here on Martin’s reno site, I hope it is as interesting as LumberJocks and this tale will be my, hopefully not too boring, contribution :-)
This all stems back to June 1st where my wife was shuttling our kids to assorted end-of-year activities, Lauren (my daughter) was safely at school but Jenn (my wife) and Paul (my...
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35 days ago
by Big Al |
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I visited the house to see what progress they’ve done on the house. they got the oors in, and the slab is supposedly finished. drywall is supposed to be done and the sidding is getting there.
apparantly they dont expect to finish til september. But, who knows…
enjoy!Al
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57 days ago
by mbulla |
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Did you want to add more pictures when posting a project and you couldn’t? Then you will enjoy a brand new update of our project pages. When entering a project page you will immediately see a larger version of the main picture. And the best thing is that this larger picture is not cropped anymore. Also, there is a list of all project pictures in a thumbnail format. The number of pictures per project was increased to six. Just click on any of the thumbnails to view enlarged version of that pic...
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70 days ago
by Big Al |
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It’s now Thursday, pretty much the last day of work on the house. Friday will be a lunch with the owners and we will say our goodbyes until grad later this summer.
So this week we are mostly drywalling, exterior window detail, and the green roof is now a roof-top deck with planters…
here are the pictures:
here’s the deck:
during lunch
This is our last full work day for this house… I will visit once it is later on the build. I know a few people that a...
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71 days ago
by Big Al |
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4” XPS is in. and the roughins for electrical and stuff also. some of the sidding is also being installed.
4”XPS and rebar for the slab
Electrical roughins
the back of the house
the front of the house, the rest of hte hosue is getting horixontal sidding, not verticle
Al
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77 days ago
by BeachedBones |
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Here’s a couple current pictures of my project. Still to do is wainscoting and trim, storage door and storage furniture, mirrors, door T&G ceiling maybe.
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