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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 » READ MORE
Period appropriate trim
By sevenofiveThere 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 » READ MORE
