19 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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November 2, 2008
Last year, I put in a beautiful little propane stove (fireplace) in my living room and it was WONDERFUL. A great investment. It heats most of our downstairs and last year it probably saved us about $500 in heating bills (or there about).
The layout of my house doesn’t allow us to close off any rooms in order to save on heating bills, other than my beloved porch which gets REALLY cold in the winter and fortunately has two access doors to the rest of the house and I...
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60 days ago
by Dan Lyke |
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With the coming of fall weather, the gap underneath the door finally got annoying to the point where I milled a new threshold out of Ipe and installed it. Lessons learned:
1. Despite how hard and dense it is, Ipe actually mills fairly easily.
2. The sawdust stinks, spreads a green (despite the nice color of the wood) dust over everything, and hangs in the air. Definitely open the shop doors and use a respirator.
3. No matter how nicely you prep your work area, if you do finishi...
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105 days ago
by Michal Bulla |
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Today is the Day we were waiting for. Our successful HomeRefurbers Summer Awards are over, so let me officially announce the winners.
DECKED OUT IN COMFORT
1st Place – My new Deck by karson (25 points)
2nd Place – Our deck short of decked out and painted by PaBull (19 points)
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Click here to see the complete results.
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And here is the lucky winner of our...
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182 days ago
by Michal Bulla |
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The first Summer HomeRefurbers Awards is approaching fast and we are wondering what categories would suit you best. Please let us know what award categories you would like to compete in. It would help us a lot…
Thanks!
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233 days ago
by Brian H |
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Thanks to this:
We had to install this:
Like the deck I posted before, this is all cheap treated wood. My backyard isn’t huge but it’s big enough that the more exotic fencing was out of our price range. The important thing was to keep the dogs in our backyard which it thankfully does. This summer we may put on a stain/pretector on it to make it look nicer. We hope to put our house up for sale within a year or two so that’ll probably help.
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75 days ago
by PaBull |
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Today I was busy making the glass doors for the medicine cabinets for all the bathrooms in the house. I thought I might as well share the fun with you guys. First thing I had to do after I cut the styles and rails, was make a jig to do the coping on the router table. My router table is build in with the table saw, very basic. Here some pictures of that jig.
The pictures are not the best, I took them with my PDA, sorry.
The jig rides against the edge of the table.
Now here...
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218 days ago
by Huckleberry |
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I was taking a building codes class a year ago or so and we got on the subject of crawl space insulation. According to the building codes in my neck of the woods they require insulation between non-conditioned air and living spaces. So as I was going to do this in my older house one person told me not to do that. He had said that with a crawlspace that has a moisture issue that it could lead to rotting of my floors. Has anyone else heard this or is this just some bull?
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219 days ago
by MRTRIM |
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this is one of the best tools ive bought in many years . it comes with many different rubber profiles that you wrap sand paper on for sanding mouldings ect. it also has a grout cutter for removeing tiles . a scraper blade , a couple different saw blades , which is what i use it for most . i retrim around doors a lot and usually have to pull the baseboard on both sides and try not to break it after trimming recut the base and put it back . with this tool i only mark the baseboard in plac...
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226 days ago
by KevinHuber |
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Just thought I’d throw my name into the growing list of Lumber Jocks making the transition into Home Refurbers.
Martin, this is a great idea.
I’ll try to get my house projects brought over here from LJ as well as post some of the others that I didn’t feel fit on LJ very well.
Welcome to all.
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229 days ago
by Jcees |
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If you’re an LJ, then you may have already caught a glimpse of this puppy in my projects on that site. I’ll do it this time as a blog and showoff some of the details and talk about the process just for you, MrTrim.
I had to build the large archway twice! A wood boring bee decided to take up residence in the first one. I had made it out of WRC and the little bugger said, “Yummy!” So I rebuilt it out of SYP this time and put in a standing kill order for wood b...
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