So after Pushing Tin suggested the idea I decided to take some more pictures of the remodel I've been doing. Here are two that I posted earlier, I will post
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The Home and garden/ garage Remodel thread.
So after Pushing Tin suggested the idea I decided to take some more pictures of the remodel I've been doing.
Here are two that I posted earlier, I will post more soon. A kitchen and bathroom that were completely gutted down to the studs. Here is the kitchen: Edit: I have done everything, literally by myself in 5 days Post some of your pictures, of how you've improved your home or project. Last edited by BanningZ; 07-05-2009 at 06:06 AM. |
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Cool! My wife and I built a house last year, it was a total nightmare. I'm at work but I'll post some pics today or tomorrow.
I'm not handy at all, but working with my GC he and his crew showed me what do to, so I was able to particpate in quite a bit of building. Plus he paid my wife and I for our work, we saved almost $10k in labor alone. |
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Okay people, the remodeling continues.
Today among many of my various projects I am doing, I began to put new sub flooring in the Bathroom addition. To my joyous surprise I found dry rot in the joists. Now this will not be a before/after update, because that will come later. What I did find of interest while practicing my contortionism under the house was something shiny. I decided to reward myself from all the work I had been doing and dig it up. Now here's some background info on our area. At the turn of the 20th century most of my entire 12 block historic district was a landfill. Whats cool about this is after 1910-20's homes were moved here. My home was built in 1886 and later moved here on top of the old landfill. Whats fun about living on an antique landfill you say? Well stuff constantly resurfaces from Chinese immigrant workers and locals and anything you could think of that might have been trash then. Over the years I have found blue willow china, opium bottles and random trinkets. What I found today I thought was going to be a turn of the century "something" So I was all excited, love playing Victorian archeologist. What it turned out to be was a beer bottle. Next to the beer bottle was a hammer, that fell apart in my hands, and a handful of square nails. I found the last construction guy's beer. He must have gotten so hammered that he forgot his tools, and beer then floor got sealed up. So I dug it up, cleaned it in the sink and decided to look up the markings. on the bottom. It has the number 20 on one side, a weird symbol in the middle and a number one on the other side. Underneath that it says "Duraglas" So I looked up "duraglas" and heres what I found. Quote:
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Machine Made Dating I have a beer bottle from 1951 that was made in Oakland, California and bottled in Tacoma, Washington, and drank and forgotten underneath my house during remodeling with the last guy in Salem, Oregon that was found by me 58 years later. What I'm really trying to figure out is why a guy in 1951 was using square nails. The only thing I can think of is they were being resourceful and reusing nails, or had a bunch left over from years past they decided to use. I thought it was pretty cool history, so I thought I would share. |
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