sevenofive

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Rehabbing Prairie Style American Foursquare (1910).

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Beware of the boiler room. The sewer stack project.

By sevenofive

This is an early-ish before picture of the state of the boiler room. I think we were on about our 2nd of 5, 30 yard dumpsters in the process of cleaning out the house.After removing several layers of trash....and several more layers of trash. The boiler room became navigable. Having turned the main water line on and off a few times and replaced several valves in the house, I new there were issues back there. What was that sound of flowing water back there? After removing a one foot think layer of tree roots in the back corner of the... »MORE

December 08, 2006

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Period appropriate trim

By sevenofive

There are several generations of trim throughout the house.Before: (Note 1/4" oak flooring, no longer mass produced, was repaired using salvage material from closets and another room.) Base: As far as I could determine most of the original base was 1x8 Douglas fir routed with a shallow round. There wasn't much of this left in the house. (I won't go into the other generations of trim here.) Routing 1x8 (or 1x10) white pine was my plan B. I wanted something a little more ornate and I wanted something 8+". I searched high and low at all of the home improvement places and local... »MORE

December 05, 2006

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