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goof7ball · 09-04-2003, 10:57 PM

I am the proud owner of an 80 year old house in Seattle, and am wondering how many other people out there own old homes too.

So far my completed project list includes:
-Complete tearout and rebuild of bathroom (fixing dry rot along the way)
-Turned the unfinished basement into a family room
-Retiled counter tops in kitchen
-replaced galvanized water pipes with copper.
-replaced about 90% of the old knob and tube wiring (and tripled the number of outlets)
-scraped half-a-dozen layers of wallpaper
-tore off and replaced the roof (added back the eves that some imbecile (sp??) cut off 50 years ago).
-Built a tongue-and-groove cedar fence in the back yard and a cedar picket fence in the front yard
-resided ~30% of the house
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I've learned many things (most of them the hard way) that I'd love to share, and I would love to hear from other people about what they are doing to their old homes.

09-04-2003, 10:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
goof7ball Tilted	how to fix/maintain an old house I am the proud owner of an 80 year old house in Seattle, and am wondering how many other people out there own old homes too. So far my completed project list includes: -Complete tearout and rebuild of bathroom (fixing dry rot along the way) -Turned the unfinished basement into a family room -Retiled counter tops in kitchen -replaced galvanized water pipes with copper. -replaced about 90% of the old knob and tube wiring (and tripled the number of outlets) -scraped half-a-dozen layers of wallpaper -tore off and replaced the roof (added back the eves that some imbecile (sp??) cut off 50 years ago). -Built a tongue-and-groove cedar fence in the back yard and a cedar picket fence in the front yard -resided ~30% of the house . . . I've learned many things (most of them the hard way) that I'd love to share, and I would love to hear from other people about what they are doing to their old homes.