22 days ago
by Tikka |
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I have been assessing the work needed to be undertaken and trying to prioritize that work – one of the first things that I notice here was that there is a lot of rising damp in a new extension that was built (old stables), it turns out that there is no damp proofing installed in the walls or the floor. The original floor is tiles set upon sand ( as was done 200 years ago), and the sand was upon the clay beneath the house, did I mention that this is a very old property.
This part of...
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22 days ago
by Tikka |
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Those of you who know me from Lumberjocks, will now know that I have closed my workshop down in Finland and have moved to Belgium for a new start in life. For those of you who do not know me, you now know the story so far. or can read it here.
I loaded up my trailer and van on the 4th August with as much tools and personal effects (minimum) to allow me to get started on this project, during the remainder of this year and probably well into next year, I will try to blog the progress of the...
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26 days ago
by sandhill |
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I am finally in the home stretch with the kitchen all the cabinets are in and all that’s left is the counter tops, dish washer, a few electrical hook ups. We have chosen Granite with an under mount sink which will be installed in about 10 days.
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47 days ago
by Todd |
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Okay, just started this project today. The bathroom was still as we decorated it when we moved in 10 years ago. The paint was peeling, caulk was dried and had some mold, the faucet was never quite tight, and some of the fixtures were rusting.
I fixed the faucet first. I cut a hole in the closet behind it in the spare bedroom. I got a 14” x 14” plastic door from the HD. I marked out the hole for the door and cut with the utility knife till it fell out. I always cut just a ...
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49 days ago
by DrRum |
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I bought my house almost 2 years ago and the upstairs had carpet which was a mess. When we ripped it out we found some 2” wide oak and then for some reason plywood. Seems like the previous owner was thinking of adding a second layer of ply to the subfloor and then maybe add something over?? The adjoining kitchen had the same layer of ply under the linoleum (spelling??).
So we found that in order to get the flooring we wanted (she wanted 5” wide brazilian cherry), that we were l...
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52 days ago
by Brian & Carey |
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We built a landing (attic) not sure what to call it in the garage and that’s where the children slept. Then we divided the garage into a bedroom, lounge, kitchen and bathroom with panels. We put all the wardrobes into a square in one corner to create a dressing room.
Our water supply was pumped up to us from the farmer down the road a kilometre away into tanks perched precariously on some old scaffolding. The cut off valve was about 65 metres down the field. The farmer would ...
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92 days ago
by Etsy |
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At the end of the quiet wooded street I grew up on, there once stood an upholsterer’s workshop called Brownie’s Upholstery. The workshop was a landmark for me well into my twenties. When I was likely no more than four, my father took me to Brownie’s to visit the cheerful and bearded man while he reupholstered a chair from our living room. Although I never knew exactly how it was done, I was always fascinated by the fact that this chair used to look a certain way one day, and...
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96 days ago
by Woodcanuck |
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Where to start? I’ve got a before picture hiding somewhere on my camera, I’ll probably post it as a project or throw it in as another post in the series.
Our laundry/furnace room is in the basement, roughly 12’x12’. The furnace takes up a little under one quarter of the space, no changes planned here. The rest needed work….a LOT of work!
Maybe I’ll start with the history. We had some drainage issues right behind the laundry room, creating a cycle ...
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141 days ago
by Paul |
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We went with 2 color scheme for the floor using the VCT tiles from Congoleum. Black and red are the colors we chose (Ebony AL-21 and Santa Fe Clay AL-64). They seem to go real well with the rest of the room. Both colors were a special order from Menards and we had to wait about 1.5 weeks to get them in.
Each color ended up being 9 boxes. At the end of the job we are left with 1 box each. At this point I’ll probably end up keeping those.
For the pattern we chose the diamond ch...
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169 days ago
by JeffS |
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Between Thanksgiving and Christmas I was able to get the flooring down. It is solid maple with a mahogany border. To make the border, I ended up going out and buying rough mahogany and milling it down to the right size and shape, then took it to the router table to put on a tongue and groove to match the maple flooring.
I put down the finish over new years week…of course it was 0 degrees outside, so I had to keep the furnace running to keep the place warm enough, and since we have ...
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