Recent content by Smart Red

Welcome, @lindseyolson, to the gang. It's pretty quiet here, but there are folks ready and willing to help if asked.

My decades old washer died a couple of weeks back. Son had a 'bells and whistles' set that he planned to bring over to replace both my washer and dryer. Danged washer needed two parts first. One cost $500-ish and the second was just about the same. Needless to say it was cheaper to replace my...

Yup, I agree with you on the toilet seats. They never seemed as sanitary as the vinyl ones. The vinyl seats tend to break at the hinges while I've seen wooden ones just split in half. That's not the place you want splinters.

Welcome, @ZParrow. Always ready for hints, suggestions, and advice.

Many reasons for bathtub windows. Usually it has to do with being an old house with an added or remodeled bathroom. Ya gotta use the space you have and that often means the tub goes under a window. The older homes that have windowless bathrooms are also often added -- using spaces under...

One of the most used tools in the shop, however, is Dad's old DeWalt radial arm saw. It is also older than the oldest I've seen on the internet so far. It has built a lot of houses in the day. Spouse used to help his father as a teenager so the saw had to be made in the early 1950s.

Good job! We have the room so we have the bigger tools, but it's still fun to make jigs and 'helping hands' for the tools.

I often wonder what was done after these discussions are finished. Were the windows repaced by the homeowner or by professionals? There are replacement windows that are eaiser to change out than what is sold for new construction. These windows requre mostly just the removal of the old sashes...

Spouse was the master. I am but a faded imitation beneath his shadow, but I love doing the work. I also have a son who learned from the master and does a lot to help. There is nothing wrong with hiring specialists when needed. Spouse bricked our house, but hired masons to build the fireplaces...

Nifty sure is starting them out right.

[ QUOTE="Darla, post: 2814, member: 4505"]Are you talking about the micro homes, that basically look like those wooden storage buildings? I saw an article on those in a magazine. It was pretty interesting, but I am not sure if I could live in a micro home. If I had acreage, though, I probably...

I love the look in my son's Vict0rian home, but it seems out of place here in my ranch-style house. Besides, Spouse had the plaster walls sand coated. I'm not sure how a border would work over that texture.

Howdy, Ralph.

There are new rubber roofing choices that weren't around even a few years ago. I don't know that I've ever heard of only rubber as roofing except on flat roofs, but we did have a rubber skin material used on a pitched porch-roof with a deck over it. It lasted about 25 years before it had...

We had all carpeting in here when we first built some 40 years ago, but I've been replacing it with oak flooring room by room as they are redone. Hopefully, soon all but the living and dining rooms will be oak. I find it much easier to keep up although the grands prefer carpeting. I really...