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Anne Whateley posted:I'm not an expert, but when the interior has been completely exposed to the elements and animals for 10 years, my understanding is you're hosed Yeah, you'd have a masonry shell, and you'd be building a new house inside it. So, if you can afford the property, and afford building a brand new house, and about 25-50% extra for the inconvenience of building a new house without bulldozing the existing structure, and seismic retrofitting what's left, go for it, it'd genuinely be pretty cool to have a modern house in a very old shell. E: to be clear, if the roof is failed for any significant period of time, the inside of the house is absolutely 100% trashed, you will never get the mold and rot out. E2, and even if it's a house so old that the masonry is structural, that still means gutting the house and working with contractors who know how to work with old masonry, which means $$$. You probably do not want to see quotes for tuck-pointing. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:50 |
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Qwijib0 posted:if only you had the backing of a pile of donated time and materials. Looks like this season is a real dump to start There were so many of these beautiful Queen Anne houses in horrible disrepair where I lived in CT, all dating back to the 1800s.
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# ¿ Oct 27, 2020 00:15 |
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It would be hard on the 'ol electric bill, but a big 'ol electric heater like this King might be a decent alternative.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2020 18:15 |
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devmd01 posted:It’s me, I’m the thread title. I’ve been slowly building out a new gfci circuit as I have time, adding some more outlets to the garage, an outdoor outlet behind the garage, as well as under the eaves for Christmas lights. I’m pretty close to being done, just two more outlets to go and the wire is already pulled to the cavity above the next to last outlet, with a short hop to the other, final outlet under the eaves by the front door. Once that’s done I’ll get it tied in to the breaker box. You can screw or nail through the little ears on a retro box, #6 bugle head wood screws work really well, as long as the metal's no in the volume of the box itself. I know it's way to late but
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2020 04:56 |
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falz posted:Whoa genius, going to pull trigger on this guy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071HYRPND/ You can disassemble one of the old cans and lift the van out of the bracket, that should give you a nice big 6" hole to look around through
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2020 19:06 |
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Do you guys not pull cable in conduits over there? If there is one you could just add on another piece of conduit and rerun the cable to the box it's connected to. Only one municipality (Chicago) that I know of requires conduit for branch circuits, everywhere else is non metallic cable ("Romex")
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 20:17 |
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El Mero Mero posted:I've got an old wood floor in a room that sits directly above an unconditioned crawlspace. There are some cracks/gaps that let breezes in from below into that room. No, there should be insulation between every conditioned and unconditioned space in your house, what you want is insulation between all the floor joists and a plastic vapor barrier encapsulating it. You can spray foam or caulk any gaps prior to insulating for more protection. There are entire companies devoted to doing this. As long as your crawlspace is properly ventilated it won't create any moisture issues.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2020 07:12 |
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wooger posted:Do you not want the vapour barrier between the floor & joists and the insulation in this case, rather than the other way round? Yeah, that.
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2020 21:39 |
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He's trying to insulate the masonry walls of a stone garage, not the dividing wall between it and his house.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2020 01:40 |
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tetrapyloctomy posted:With my work schedule and other responsibilities, I cannot go to a gym during the week. Throw in the pandemic and the lax attitude at my prior gym with masking and it's not an option. Since you don't park a car in your garage, have you thought about going with French doors instead of a garage door? That would remove all the garage door hardware entirely.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 17:57 |
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tetrapyloctomy posted:I've thought about changing out the garage door entirely, but that seems like a waste of money when I could just get rid of the opener altogether if I really had no other option and wanted the headroom. I spent almost forty years of my life without a garage door opener, and if I'm not putting a car in the garage there's no need to automate the process so I can open it while sitting in the car. Looks like it has a torque switch as a safety sensor (if it's too hard to shut the door it reverses) That's an... interesting product.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 18:51 |
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H110Hawk posted:Moments after giving your kid a concussion it will roll back up to hide the evidence. It also starts whistling and looking the other way. The garage door at work uses a pneumatic switch, i.e. there's a "pillow" on the bottom of the door, if it hits something it activates a pressure switch (connected with a length of plastic tubing) that stops the door. It's such a convoluted, failure prone system, and it scares me.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 19:40 |
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Oh hey, it's my house in another 2 years.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 23:58 |
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Mortar might work too?
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2020 08:47 |
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Another thing I'd take into consideration is switching to NG heat, as that might be a considerable cost savings over electric, depending on your current system.
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2020 20:58 |
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Yeah, the part about that that's gonna loving suck is the cabinets, and weird holes left in them by moving the dishwasher, plumbing will be easy as hell, you just punch a couple holes and run lines as they're run on the other side. Electric, to do it properly, will be somewhat more annoying.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 06:26 |
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Oh yeah that kitchen is loving awful, much better to redo it now then after you're all settled in.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2020 21:24 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:50 |
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:PO put in this extra bathroom on a platform due to I guess not wanting to break up the floor. https://www.lowes.com/pl/Schluter-s...xxoCynkQAvD_BwE
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