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This Old Pucking House
- Thread starter Miss Kitty
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Ours is circa 1972 - Brady Bunch series. Wallpaper in EVERY SINGLE ROOM. Mr. JR has finally gotten all of that removed.
Mr JR has also removed all the paneling, fake ceiling beams; ripped out god-awful ugly metal banisters and had custom woodwork designed and installed.
Removed all turquoise, harvest gold, and pink fixtures in bathrooms.
Every window replaced.
Total kitchen remodel (literally top to bottom) with removal of scary Mediterranean cabinets and gold tile back splash. :shock:
ripped out patio with new paver installation & new landscaping; new roof; additional insulation in attic; new fence.
LeafGuard gutters (Mr. JR's most favorite thing!
)
really - the list just goes on and on.
Fortunately, Mr. JR is VERY handy and likes doing much of it but says he's getting too old so he's hiring most of it out now.
But we're happy with it. If the previous owner saw it now it would be unrecognizable!
.
Mr JR has also removed all the paneling, fake ceiling beams; ripped out god-awful ugly metal banisters and had custom woodwork designed and installed.
Removed all turquoise, harvest gold, and pink fixtures in bathrooms.
Every window replaced.
Total kitchen remodel (literally top to bottom) with removal of scary Mediterranean cabinets and gold tile back splash. :shock:
ripped out patio with new paver installation & new landscaping; new roof; additional insulation in attic; new fence.
LeafGuard gutters (Mr. JR's most favorite thing!
)really - the list just goes on and on.
Fortunately, Mr. JR is VERY handy and likes doing much of it but says he's getting too old so he's hiring most of it out now.
But we're happy with it. If the previous owner saw it now it would be unrecognizable!
.
Yes, I have started yet another project on this old pucking house, the Dallas series. I am a serial procrastinator and Mr. K has been after me to get off sowal.com and take care of business. Good thing he left for a week today...been gearing up for some new landscape (DD is my master gardner) and decided to rip up the old red brick patio off the deck. They came today...things were going great...then, the discovery was made...
there is pucking concrete underneath the entire patio and they are now jackhammering the sheet out of it!!
$$$$$$ :angry: :roll:
Life story of anyone with an old house...do one thing and two more jobs reveal themselves. What is your "this old house" (or new house) nightmare?
Oh Miss Kitty Miss Kitty. CONCRETE You have said the golden word. Or maybe it's the leaden word.
The same thing that happened to you, happened to us!!! When we bought our circa 1925 home it had a huge (and I mean huge) paved concrete landing pad in the back by the garage. I'm not a master gardener for nothing and I couldn't see wasting perfectly good gardening beds on concrete. So we hired someone to rip out the concrete. Sure, they said. Easy job. It turned out that the concrete was almost 6" thick and gridded with rebar every 12". It was a nightmare!! A job that should have taken 3-5 days ended up taking 3 months and we had mountains of concrete everywhere. Luckily this happened nine years ago and I was much younger then.
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greenroomsurfer
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hnooe
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Yes, I have started yet another project on this old pucking house, the Dallas series. I am a serial procrastinator and Mr. K has been after me to get off sowal.com and take care of business. Good thing he left for a week today...been gearing up for some new landscape (DD is my master gardner) and decided to rip up the old red brick patio off the deck. They came today...things were going great...then, the discovery was made...
there is pucking concrete underneath the entire patio and they are now jackhammering the sheet out of it!!
Life story of anyone with an old house...do one thing and two more jobs reveal themselves. What is your "this old house" (or new house) nightmare?
Putting Heart of Pine floors in my new house (circa 2007) with two overexcited Border Collies--What TF was I thinking!!! I guess you could call the scrathes and gouges "charm."
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Miss Kitty
Meow
Oh Miss Kitty Miss Kitty. CONCRETE You have said the golden word. Or maybe it's the leaden word.
It turned out that the concrete was almost 6" thick and gridded with rebar every 12". It was a nightmare!! A job that should have taken 3-5 days ended up taking 3 months and we had mountains of concrete everywhere. Luckily this happened nine years ago and I was much younger then.
3 months?
Oh well...guess I'll just go to sowal and not worry about it. 
I just went and looked at the rebar...wonder how much the scrap yard would give me? Sure would like to put some plants in the garden! They didn't make much headway...my landscaper says it sure would be nice if we had the room to get a Bobcat in. :roll:
greenroomsurfer
Beach Fanatic
This soon will pass-------------breath in breath out. Now relax and go get some Papasitos and nock back some texasritas!3 months?
I just went and looked at the rebar...wonder how much the scrap yard would give me? Sure would like to put some plants in the garden! They didn't make much headway...my landscaper says it sure would be nice if we had the room to get a Bobcat in. :roll:
audie
fartblossom
built in 1989. we've already replaced all the windows, new roof starting whenever they get the sunroom done.....
