Lately I’ve been giving a lot of thought to how to deal with the crazy petrified carpet pad that fused itself to the hardwood floors in the living room, dining room, and hallway. It is some sort of diabolical material that is impervious to water, laughs at me when I use a sander, and outlasts […]

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I was popping some of the tiles off the wall in the kitchen and was somewhat alarmed at how greasy everything was.  But when I got to the second row of tiles down, I found PUDDLES OF GREASE that had pooled inside the tiles!!!  AAAAHHHH  GROSS!!! 
I’m a vegetarian and my walls are literally DRIPPING with rendered […]

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Brandon got a call yesterday afternoon that our chimney and fireplace company had a sudden opening and they’ll be able to install our wood burning stove insert and reconstruct our chimney TODAY!!!  This is great news and I can’t wait to go to the house after work today and check it out.  This comes right […]

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After this weekend’s frenzy of heavy lifting and back breaking work, I’m left with a house full of crumbling wallpaper, greasy cabinets, and weird pus colored petrified carpet padding. I wandered the house on Sunday, picking at wallpaper here, scratching at carpet padding there, knocking down a few kitchen tiles, and just generally taking […]

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Day two and amazingly our team came back! Craig must be a glutton for punishment, because he stuck with us at the house from 9am to just after 5pm! I could barely keep up with him!
I started my day at 7:30, which was admittedly difficult after being at the house until just after midnight the […]

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