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jabba
12-30-2003, 06:11 AM
story? I tore the roof off my house Oct 27th, and am pounding away. The old windows downstairs are getting replaced today. Most of the trim ois on th e outside with siding to be done shortly.

This is worse than working 2 jobs.

Send me good vibes...

Jabba
R J
12-30-2003, 09:42 AM
Good Luck.......

Sure glad it is you and not me.....

I went thru a first floor expansion a few years back and that was bad enough......
Maddog
12-30-2003, 06:55 PM
Been there and done that. Almost cost me a divorce. But after it was done it was real nice. I really don't see what the problem was. she always had a bathroom to use, maybe there were not any walls around it or sometimes not a roof. But what the hell, it had a nice view outside
wildman51
12-30-2003, 08:50 PM
Good Luck on yor Project - Are you Finding diRty in places you
didn't even know you had!

The finish product will make it all wearth it.
Yogi
12-31-2003, 05:58 AM
How about the reverse? I had to turn a bedroom into a kitchen/living room for about a month while I gutted and rebuilt the first floor of my 80 year old farmhouse. Talk about dirt. I uncovered things that hadn't seen the light of day since RJ was a youngin' :wink: Yep, made it a nice new house then turned around and sold it 2 years later. Wish I still had it tho' :cry:
jabba
12-31-2003, 09:38 AM
I have lived in this house 9 years already, and I am not only finding dirty... but am finding and repairing a lot of old damage, or stuff that was just not done quite right.

Some old termite damage. (No sing of anything recent.) I had termites 8 years ago and had it all treated then.

The A/C drain was just stubbed into the crawl and left to drain... I fixed that last night and tied it into the sanitary drain.

All new windows downstairs.

Insulating the downstairs which was never done before.

All new siding.


It's all overwhelming really.

Jabba
hotglue
12-31-2003, 10:09 AM
Jabba, I know what you are talkin about!!!! I live in a 100 year old farm house. Was my Great Grandpa's. It's amaxing what ya find when ya start tearing into things... Some of the construction is AMAZING!!!!!