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87 posts in 708 days
Location: Petaluma, CA
Website: http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke
Bought a 1947 cottage in southwest Petaluma (about 45 minutes north of San Francisco) in January of 2008, our projects started by ripping out the carpets to reveal the gorgeous white oak floors. We never want to move again, so we're slowly turning this place into the home we want to spend the rest of our lives in.
We'll be building our own kitchen cabinets, eventually hope to build our own doors, make doing the place up with beautiful wooden fixtures our hobby.
I'm also slightly active over at LumberJocks, along with my own extensive web presence.
-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/
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| replied on | Textured wall repair | 193 days ago |
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| added blog entry | A Shop for Dan #4: Engineering a wall | 209 days ago |
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| commented on | Sun Room refurb -- getting down to the wooden floor | 218 days ago |
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Any wall within 5 feet of a property line needs to be 1 hour rated. With a living roof, each end of the rafter will be supporting a thousand lbs. Furthermore, I live in earthquake country. Building a wall isn’t a trivial matter of slapping u...
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Okay, the Tuff Shed folks left us thinking that all we needed to do was provide a couple of level pier blocks. Reading through stuff on building foundations to codes leaves me wondering a bit on that, I believe that we’d need to build a foun...
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I’m still looking for reasonable numbers on roof loads for a living roof. I’ve run across people claiming as little as 7 lbs per square foot per inch of soil, and living roofs in as little as 4” of soil, and numbers as high as 14...
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We live in a little 768 square foot cottage on a little lot on the southern edge of Sonoma county, of wine country fame, in a cute little town called Petaluma. If you’ve seen Basic Instinct, or Peggy Sue Got Married, or, especially, American...
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Just lining our closets with cedar, to make sure we don’t have moth issues, and splitting one closet into two, with an additional door into the hallway. Yes, we’re making sure that there’s still a full plasterboard firewall betwe...
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4 comments so far
MRTRIM
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746 posts in 708 days
posted 708 days ago
welcome to HR dan good to see ya
MsDebbieP
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337 posts in 722 days
posted 707 days ago
Hi Dan. Glad you made it here :)
-- ~ Debbie, Ontario Canada
Bill
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128 posts in 708 days
posted 697 days ago
Hi Dan, and welcome to Home Refurbers.
So you bought in Petaluma. How do you like it so far? It sounds like you have lots of work ahead of you to make the house of your dreams.
-- Bill - Turlock, Ca. - http://www.brookswoodworks.com
Dan Lyke
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posted 697 days ago
Bill, so far we’re loving it. We just had an “invite all the neighbors over” party and had a grand ol’ time, last night we went to an underground (literally) concert with Steve Seskin (whose songs you’ve almost certainly heard), the bicycling is awesome.
And the house is great because there’s very little that we must do, but a lot that we want to do. I’ve started to work on milling our reclaimed mahogany for the cabinet doors and baseboards, hoping that we’ll be able to hang the new front door and start in on the baseboards soon, and I’m working on a few things for the back yard.
Always something more interesting to do than, for instance, watch TV, but no emergency projects on the list.
-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/