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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21 days ago
by mbulla |
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HomeRefurbers | LumberJocks | GardenTenders
Don’t forget that Saturday – November 1st – is Halloween Challenge deadline. You have a great chance to win one of the following prizes:
$50 gift card
Lee Valley Golf shirt
Lee Valley tape measure
Winners will be announced on November 2nd…Good Luck!
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21 days ago
by ryno101 |
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I’m posting as I have a free 20 minutes to compile these, so my timeline is a bit scattered… I’m well into other stuff, but I’m trying to make sure I get the big stuff documented here, so I’m really like a week or so ahead in the project, this was last weekend’s adventure.
My two biggest “projects” inside this giant project…. are the painting/wall prep and re-doing the kitchen.
The kitchen was by far the nastiest room in the house...
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25 days ago
by ryno101 |
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So, I’ve been working at this for two weekends and one week of after work time. I’m leaving to go to work at 6:30am, working until 6pm, then driving an hour to get to the new house, working until midnight or so, wash, rinse, repeat.
First thing I did was pull the mom-mobile (our minivan, which I have co-opted for the duration of this project!) up to my workshop and load it all in. I’m one of those guys who needs to be organized, and I figure that my first step would be ...
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25 days ago
by Scott Hildenbrand |
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Finally got to doing more with the front door this weekend and got the storm door installed. It’s a really nice Pella 8500 Roll Screen in Cranberry with Oil Rubbed Bronze hardware.
The day before the install I patched the rotted sections of the door jamb, which I’d dug out much earlier to solid wood.. I used the fiberglass resin + sawdust method, followed by autobody filler. It worked GREAT and is as solid as a patch that ever was. Plus I never have to worry about it rotting ou...
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27 days ago
by Olaf Gradin |
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Time to get busy on that garage conversion again! Our new baby girl is here and I’ve got the next two weeks off to help out at the house with mommy and baby. I was 60% done before now, so the rest should come together pretty quickly.
Of course, you’re all probably more interested in seeing our newest addition! Head over to the Gradin.com blog to see the news.
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36 days ago
by Dan Lyke |
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Just lining our closets with cedar, to make sure we don’t have moth issues, and splitting one closet into two, with an additional door into the hallway. Yes, we’re making sure that there’s still a full plasterboard firewall between the hall and the bedroom closet. Destruction and reconstruction in the hallway:
And one of the closet with most of the paneling in and the hanger rod back in place, the new hanger rod is maple, the trim is birch:
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36 days ago
by ryno101 |
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Got word today from our mortgage broker, and in the interest of getting this done ASAP, we’ve moved up the closing date to Friday!
This is great, not only because I can’t wait to be the proud owner of a new place, but also because it almost doubles the window of time I have to be able to complete all that needs to be done.
I’ll be getting in as soon as this weekend to start working. First steps will probably be trash removal and some small demo work. I’ll hope ...
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37 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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October 15, 2008
A couple of months ago I brought an antique china cabinet upstairs from my basement. It was old, rickety, and definitely musty. The china cabinet had been my Mom & Dad’s and is around 50 years old. My Mom says that it was just a cheap thing that they had purchased long ago. I’ve carried it with me from home to home for the past 25 years and it had ended up “tossed” in the basement. Today, it is a wonderful piece that I am proud to have in my hom...
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38 days ago
by mbulla |
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Halloween Challenge: HomeRefurbers | LumberJocks | GardenTenders
I can hear those hinges creaking for the first time in a long time and see cobwebs and ghosts haunting the doorway. Oh yes, the challenge is on! Decorate your front door for Halloween and enter the project in our first ever HomeRefurbers’ Halloween Challenge. Make it fun and inspire us with your creativity.
PRIZES
Lee Valley will provide 3 random winners with the following great prizes:
$50 gift card
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