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Re: OT: general rant about DIY home reno
Posted by CarbonCombi [Email] (more from CarbonCombi) on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:18
In Reply to: Re: OT: general rant about DIY home reno, TML
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I feel your pain, TML. My wife and I have been plugging away at a 1885 vintage house. The old house itself isn't so bad, it is the "renovations" the previous owner did in the 1960's. Plumbing and electrical work they did was a joke (shocking the place never burned down). I swear they were using speaker wire for some of the electric runs. The addition to the back of the house they put on was all from reclaimed wood, which I think came from the original garage. 2 x 8 floor joist (not to code), improper (random) stud spacing, ballon-framing with the joists nailed to the side of the 2 x 4's (though they built houses this way in the past, it still just looks sketchy to me), and improper headers above doors and windows.
The work to fix the "renovations" they made is what has caused us the most headaches and cost us the most. I think we have opened up enough walls (we have no kitchen right now) to find everything that they may have screwed up.
That Holmes on Homes show is a great watch. I'd love to have him come into my house and tell me what he thinks. I think he would tell us to demo the whole thing and start over, foundation and all.
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Posts in this Thread:
- OT: general rant about DIY home reno, TML
, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:51:45- Re: OT: general rant about DIY home reno, Dale, Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:39:46
- Own a house from the 1800's sometime, No Snaab, Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:11:23
- I guess it's just par for the course, TML
, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:21:46 - Re: OT: general rant about DIY home reno, Justin VanAbrahams
, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:54:11 - I see lots of weird stuff like that here, pushrodsaab, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:00:14
- Holmes on Homes, EGD
, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:29:14 - Re: OT: general rant about DIY home reno, Acc, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:12:11
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