566 days ago
by MRTRIM |
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i was looking for something to post and decided to go with wainscoting . a lot of this ive posted on l j but i thinks works here as well . feel free to post your own wainscoting on here . i enjoy seeing other folks styles and work i just commented on pabulls project that beadboard has been back around for some time now . a lot of the guys are doing the “old school style ” such as bead board all around , chairrail at the top and base at the bottom . i do it a little different , i d...
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692 days ago
by Karson |
3 comments »
Well I was working on building the deck and I kept saying. Take some pictures. But, it didn’t get done. These pictures are from before putting on the deck surface.
The deck is placed just outside a small deck that goes between the screened porch and the Solarium. We have a spa in the Solarium room.
The deck is basically 16’ X 16’. It’s 14 feet to the beginning of the curved edge. One end is tapered to match the sidewalk that goes around the house.
I’...
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391 days ago
by daltxguy |
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As part of my adobe brick making series, I thought I might show some examples of what an adobe brick building might look like.
I guess most people might imagine that an adobe brick building must necessarily look like came out of the southwest US but not so. Mudbrick has been used for centuries and there are far more mudbrick homes than you probably imagine. Many of them look like any other building that you are used to seeing.
I’ve chosen to limit my pictures to homes built here i...
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668 days ago
by Patrick Jaromin |
4 comments »
This past weekend, Mother’s Day weekend, I gave my wife what every mother wants: a silver “mother and family” necklace and a freshly-painted garage!MixologyOriginally I was planning on heading out to HD and buying a gallon or so of “oops” paint (ya know, the stuff that they mix by mistake and sell dirt cheap) for the walls. But then, a woodworker/remodeller friend of mine suggested a better approach. He keeps a 5 gallon bucket that he uses for all of his left ove...
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433 days ago
by Bruce |
6 comments »
Can you spell “Empty Nesters?” Well, with the kids grown and out of the house, wifey asked if we could convert our fourth bedroom to a new “Guest Bath” and a new Walk in Closet off of our Master Bed Room.
Of course I said “Sure we can do that.” Thus the journey began.
We started by de-constructing the bedroom. We had to remove the closet area on the south wall and part of the wall behind it. I moved a 4’ section of the wall about 12” back ...
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539 days ago
by Dan Lyke |
10 comments »
With the coming of fall weather, the gap underneath the door finally got annoying to the point where I milled a new threshold out of Ipe and installed it. Lessons learned:
1. Despite how hard and dense it is, Ipe actually mills fairly easily.
2. The sawdust stinks, spreads a green (despite the nice color of the wood) dust over everything, and hangs in the air. Definitely open the shop doors and use a respirator.
3. No matter how nicely you prep your work area, if you do finishi...
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404 days ago
by daltxguy |
6 comments »
This is a reprint of a recent article on some studies done to show that the straight R-value of solid wood is misleading. Even though it seems worse than other materials, because wood has a lot of mass it actually can store energy, not just prevent the ingress ( or egress) of energy, which is only what R-values measure.
Wood insulation properties studied
Lincoln University researchers have studied the paradox of houses built from solid wood seeming to have greater levels of heat retenti...
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698 days ago
by Huckleberry |
9 comments »
I was taking a building codes class a year ago or so and we got on the subject of crawl space insulation. According to the building codes in my neck of the woods they require insulation between non-conditioned air and living spaces. So as I was going to do this in my older house one person told me not to do that. He had said that with a crawlspace that has a moisture issue that it could lead to rotting of my floors. Has anyone else heard this or is this just some bull?
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150 days ago
by Bill |
4 comments »
I have not been on HomeRefurbers for awhile, but I have been working on a new project. I posted it on Lumberjocks, and am adding a link here as well. Here is the tiny trailer house.
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181 days ago
by Todd Thomas |
9 comments »
Sorry for the wait…...Not sure if I mentioned it before but my lovely wife has decided that she, we, want this one…she really likes the location… The before story on the ceilings….Slim, my name for my wife Cheryl, is up mowing the grass and has our dog, Rusty, with her and Rusty decides he is going to go out into the neighborhood and introduce himself to our new neighbors…by the time we figure out he is gone we can’t get him to come with a call so Slim goes...
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