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We finished ripping up plywood floors and carpet tacks at the house this weekend. All the newly exposed floors are three-inch wide, unfinished pine or fir. The photo above is of the master bedroom floors. There are some sections of the kitchen a [Read More]

Thank you all so much for your comments and suggestions about the floors! We are definitely making progress. After whipping up a floor plan for the row house (One of us is an architect. Hint: it is not me), we had a flooring professional come giv [Read More]

Forgive me, blog, for I have sinned. It's been a month since my last confession. I've been so busy that I haven't found the time to sit down and write about what I was up to. I should break this update into a few posts. Lemme talk about the bedroo [Read More]

Wow. I was surprised at 8:45am this morning when a big Con Ed truck pulled up just as I was walking out the door with the pooches. If you read my last post, I lost one leg of power to my house yesterday. The extorti...er, electrician I summoned pron [Read More]

I was checking my email today when my computers and monitor suddenly shut down. The music went quiet in the living room downstairs as well. But I could hear the radio playing in the shop downstairs. It took me five seconds to figure out what happen [Read More]

I completed all the woodwork on the bay window unit today. I won't play conquering hero either. With the weird angles and different depths of the windows, the embedded convection steam radiator, and more than a couple of measure-once goofs, I was v [Read More]

After a long day at the terminal, like today, every so often, like tonight, I get the overwhelming urge to head downstairs to the shop, turn on my noisy dust collector and even more raucous bench tools and finish off some project, like the radiator g [Read More]

Not counting the 12 year-old Pontiac wreck I owned for all of four months and on which I managed to put maybe 400 miles before I donated it in disgust to a charity, my 2001 VW Golf is the first car I've owned. I've been a motorcyclist since I was 18 [Read More]

I've blathered a lot on the blog about the coolness of routers but another tool I use quite a bit is a biscuit joiner. Wuzzat? A social dinner roll? Bread glue? It's a tool I first saw TOH demigod, Norm Abrams, use back in the 80s. Okay, let's b [Read More]

Sheesh. Another "almost" cop out. The issue here isn't woodworking but thermodynamics. The steam radiator that Richie from Sessa Plumbing installed is something called an "element". An element works on the convection principle: as hot air rises o [Read More]