Currently not leaking. It's surprising, I know.

It's tin on top of old cedar shingles. In the right light it's a golf ball. I'm not going to mess with it till it's necessary.

Took a small vacation to Caprock Canyons over a long weekend.



Y'all need to make the trip.

Wow. That is awesome. Glad you had a good trip.

Paul,

Drove by your house today. Wanted to poke around a bit but the wife wouldn't let me. Showed the photos of your renovation so far and she was impressed. Just wanted me to ask you when you paint it, please not pink!

Hope you're doing well!

-R&F

Wow - fantastic thread. Very impressive that you stuck to it & made your deadline. A big bet will do that to you! Will be watching as you continue work on your fine house!

Any updates?

clintaggie04 said:

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Any updates?

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+1

It's been a good two weeks, so far.

So, my previously mentioned "kitchen" that was thrown together.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hrL93m][/url]2019-10-07_07-11-15 by Paul Bubel, on Flickr


I've found the old curb before they narrowed the street to install the power poles.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hrPFaj][/url]2019-10-07_07-01-28 by Paul Bubel, on Flickr

Which of course means that I will need to sledge hammer the sucker out this winter.

The interior has been primered.

Finally.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hrPH1y][/url]2019-10-07_07-03-29 by Paul Bubel, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hrPHez][/url]2019-10-07_07-03-43 by Paul Bubel, on Flickr

Rice and Fries said:

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Paul,

Drove by your house today. Wanted to poke around a bit but the wife wouldn't let me. Showed the photos of your renovation so far and she was impressed. Just wanted me to ask you when you paint it, please not pink!

Hope you're doing well!

-R&F

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Stop by anytime.

And thanks.

Is it just me, or is the trim for that one window bowed in towards the center?

It's the camera. I double checked.

I figured

Looking great, I hardly even recognize the place!

ABATTBQ11 said:

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Is it just me, or is the trim for that one window bowed in towards the center?

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Pincushion distortion

looks like your helper there needs to pick up some slack and do something useful

dubi said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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Is it just me, or is the trim for that one window bowed in towards the center?

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Pincushion distortion

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Interesting. Thanks

I had a Land Rover Discovery that I used during a couple of different renovations. Many a 2x4 rested on the console. No telling how many bags of concrete that I hauled. Some people get a little more use out of their SUVs than others.

My wife has always wanted to restore an old house. I spent the last two weeks refinishing our front door. I told her that my new hobby would be 'sandpaper' if we get an old house.

Love the thread. Keep on going!

I enjoy keeping up with this thread. One of these days I'll drive downtown and check it out.

You probably won't use your fireplace that often, but have you had the chimney inspected? The mortar holding the bricks together will often deteriorate allowing little air gaps that can allow sparks to find their way into your attic, or walls. It's a fairly common cause of fires in these older houses. My house is about as old as yours and the chimney needs to have liner installed to make it safe to use.

You're probably already aware of this, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. The house looks great!

There's no fireplace. The chimney is only for venting the cast iron stoves the place once had.

Thanks though.

I finally clicked on this thread.

Well worth it.

Awesome.

p_bubel said:

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Heh. I'm just happy she's not ****ting the floor right now.

(14 year old Lab)

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I have an almost 15 year old Eskimo dog. The struggle is real.

So, an update.

5 months later? Holy hell.

I took most of November off of work, drove out to Athens/New Orleans & Vicksburg. Had a hell of time. Spent some of December taking classes to renew my professional license which turned into the regularly scheduled cluster **** renewal with the state that kept me out of work for the good part of a month. So, basically, two months off at the end of last year with no money coming in. Needless to say, not much happened.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hSe5Ma][/url]Untitled by Paul Bubel, on Flickr

I shall call the rest of this post a late Festivas Airing of Grievances.

So, when I decided to install the AC/Heat last spring without putting in the attic insulation (I still need to finish up some work up in the attic) I did so with the understanding there would be some trade offs.

$450 a month to heat this little house this past winter. Had to bust out some space heaters as well. The heat never quite made it to the floor level. 11 foot ceilings and no insulation in the attic will do that I guess.

Insulation and proper,actual, window weather stripping SHALL BE FINISHED THIS SUMMER.

This was taken right before a squirrel ate one of my strands of lights...

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2iKsXDm][/url]Untitled by Paul Bubel, on Flickr

Started painting my ceilings:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2iKqbK9][/url]Untitled by Paul Bubel, on Flickr

I finally found and installed a ceiling fan in the living room:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2iKsWaV][/url]Untitled by Paul Bubel, on Flickr

Dig it, but as with most things lately, it has caused another issue. The living room LEDs now strobe with the blades. Fun! It's not horrific, but I need to find a way to correct the issue. I can move the fan up (which I don't want to do) move the LEDs (which I'm not going to do) or figure out a better bulb/fixture combo that might direct the light down more instead of out.

Additionally, and more importantly, I managed to get a neighbor from hell over the winter. A woman from the hood bought the house next door and let her brother-in-law move in. It was in very early January. They were all evicted by mid-February. I've never seen anything like it. This isn't a cheap neighborhood, so one does not expect a crack den to open up shop next door. Cops were involved the first week, I and another neighbor from across the street had a ****ing verbal altercation the second week with them and it just went downhill from there. Just random people at all hours, arguing and fighting in the front yard at all hours and window rattling music whenever the pyscos damn well felt like it.

I've never encountered that before. Not even in college.

{to be continued}