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As usual, we found lots of exciting stuff in the ceiling. The dining room is under the large attic at the back of the second story, which has been used for storing stuff by everybody who lived here. So this ceiling did not disappoint. For example [Read More]

sometimes old-house renovation is hard. sometimes it results in scratches & bruises. sometimes these happen to your vehicle. so while trying to do some good to the house, some damage happened to chad's truck. this all happened a few months ba [Read More]

The attic wiring is finally done...for this bedroom at least. It should have taken about an hour to run the wires. But then the ghost of owners past entered the picture. Four hours later I finally descended from the attic. Two nights of crawling [Read More]

The title says it all. After running around town buying supplies and groceries, I found myself climbing into the attic at 8:30. It's the first time I've been in this attic. The access is small, but so am I. The hard part is getting the five gall [Read More]

Since Viv and I got bored with pulling up plywood in the attic, we decided to play “What’s Under There?”  We could not see what was under the flooring between the roof rafters, so I pulled out my camera, stuck it in the hole and to [Read More]

Since we have five more days left of our vacation, Steven decided to continue working on the attic area.  He started pulling up plywood so he could get it ready to blow in some insulation.  We always thought that the plywood was sitting on rafters [Read More]

Take a moment to recall the movie Ghostbusters, more specifically near the end of the film where Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson) had to fight the [Read More]

i already received my big item on my christmas wish list for this year. a new vacuum! yeah! this thing is awesome and supposedly the best for all hardwoods. thanks dad! i wonder if i can use this directly on the dog?on other house topics. chad [Read More]

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i used to number the posts related to the attic work but i've honestly lost count. so far this year we've unfinished the circa 1960 finished attic. we've ripped out, bagged up and sweated through removing countless truckloads worth of insulation. the [Read More]

i haven't written lately. that's because i hate this house. yesterday it had me in tears. but enough about me!! i want to introduce you to our recent house guest. here's my new friend that decided to come and stay last weekend. it's called a hol [Read More]

This past weekend my wife and I went to Fredericksburg Texas to hang out and while we were there we attended the Renewable Energy Roundup & Green Living Fair. This was the first “Green” fair I had ever been to and thought that it was pretty [Read More]

I’ve alluded to some progress we’ve made recently, and here it is: we hired an architect for our upstairs space and first floor mudroom! The architect we chose has experience working with Morton Grove’s building department, and that [Read More]

This house, like many older homes (and, for all I know, lots of newer homes) has a big huge attic, accessible by one of those trapdoor ladder things. The original ladder was installed by Don's grandfather, and, like many of the things in this house, [Read More]

I think insulation, or the lack thereof, is always a big issue with these old homes. Our home, like so many others, has none. When we redid the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room we were able to put insulation into the walls at that point. All other [Read More]

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After this morning's rant-post, I now have to return you to our regularly scheduled programming. When we last left our heroes, they had a long weekend to-do list....And do it we did! Boy did we do it.First thing in the AM, we replaced the old leaky d [Read More]

A bit of history. I am very allergic to rats and sheep. I know about the rat allergy because I had a pet rat, that nearly killed me. As my allergy worsened, I actually stopped breathing one day when I tried to play with her. I know about the sheep [Read More]

With a little bit of work I think the attic will be a great space for storage, and potentially a loft type room. Although I don’t think converting this space is something we’d do in the near future, there is definitely enough room. Even t [Read More]