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Farmfresh
City Biddy
STRONG STRONG lemonade!
Farmfresh City Homesteader - the sound of falling oaks.
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FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
Bee, I'm printing out your Treatment. I tend not to get fevers and when I get a cold or flu, I am sick for a long time. I am going to try it next time (hopefully not til next winter 
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FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
Ff, those pictures and your discriptions are wonderfull incentive for me too. I need to redo a bathroom in my house. The shower has been leaking for years and I will need to tear it all out and redo the whole bathroom. We have dry rot on the floor and who knows what we'll find once we take out the tile.
I have been watching the DIY shows on tv, to educate myself.
I figure I need to learn, what is absolutely neccessary to do the best job and what I can take shortcuts on. I always like to buy the best material I can possibly afford and then I also buy a book and get any other information I can get my hands on. Then I take my time to do the job right, or if needed hire someone to do the part I cannot do. But I really like knowing how it is supposed to be done in any case.
I look forward to seeing your projects, once they are completed.
I have been watching the DIY shows on tv, to educate myself.
I figure I need to learn, what is absolutely neccessary to do the best job and what I can take shortcuts on. I always like to buy the best material I can possibly afford and then I also buy a book and get any other information I can get my hands on. Then I take my time to do the job right, or if needed hire someone to do the part I cannot do. But I really like knowing how it is supposed to be done in any case.
I look forward to seeing your projects, once they are completed.
lupinfarm
Almost Self-Reliant
Hah!! I can top ALL of you for renovations and rotting bathrooms!
Our main bathroom, the only one with a bathtub/shower, the shower surround is that tile board stuff... its like MDF kind of that you put in your shower (it really escapes me how someone thought that was a good idea lol) and its FALLING APART. Like seriously, a big chunk fell off last week lol. Our bathroom probably has't had anything done to it since the 40s, and it was a BAD 40s here lol.
We have the main bathroom to extend into our office (making it a huge 20ft bathroom with 2 person shower, claw foot tub, double vanity, dual flush toilet, and closet/dressing area) and refit, upstairs to lay hardwood flooring, skylight to put in my brothers room, whole house of windows to replace, front window to replace with original sized window and repair brick work, from door to replace, porch posts to replace and screen in for an outdoor eating area on the covered porch, tuck pointing, cellar door to replace, flooring in kitchen, living room, and laundry room plus refinishing the maple in my parents room, new propane insert for my parents room, propane insert for my brothers room (no heat at all in there), insulate the living room, drywall, install wood stove in there and set up the mudroom area by the door, all new appliances to buy (except for the range lol) and totally refit the kitchen!
Sheesh, and that doesn't even include our barn, fencing, kennel/garage, or anything!!
Have fun Farmfresh! You'll be so proud of yourself after!
Our main bathroom, the only one with a bathtub/shower, the shower surround is that tile board stuff... its like MDF kind of that you put in your shower (it really escapes me how someone thought that was a good idea lol) and its FALLING APART. Like seriously, a big chunk fell off last week lol. Our bathroom probably has't had anything done to it since the 40s, and it was a BAD 40s here lol.
We have the main bathroom to extend into our office (making it a huge 20ft bathroom with 2 person shower, claw foot tub, double vanity, dual flush toilet, and closet/dressing area) and refit, upstairs to lay hardwood flooring, skylight to put in my brothers room, whole house of windows to replace, front window to replace with original sized window and repair brick work, from door to replace, porch posts to replace and screen in for an outdoor eating area on the covered porch, tuck pointing, cellar door to replace, flooring in kitchen, living room, and laundry room plus refinishing the maple in my parents room, new propane insert for my parents room, propane insert for my brothers room (no heat at all in there), insulate the living room, drywall, install wood stove in there and set up the mudroom area by the door, all new appliances to buy (except for the range lol) and totally refit the kitchen!
Sheesh, and that doesn't even include our barn, fencing, kennel/garage, or anything!!
Have fun Farmfresh! You'll be so proud of yourself after!
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Farmfresh
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... well that may take a bit longer.
lupinfarm
Almost Self-Reliant
Our last place sold with 1.5 bathrooms, powder room on the lower level and a semi-ensuite upstairs. This place had 2 full bathrooms but the shower in the upstairs one was so tiny even a lepreachaun wouldn't fit.
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Farmfresh
City Biddy
Takes a while to get 'er done that way.
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Farmfresh
City Biddy
REALLY RUSTY
lupinfarm
Almost Self-Reliant
LOL I hear ya.Farmfresh said:lupinfarm we are about 20 YEARS into this old house renovation.
We have redone all the wiring, plumbing (almost), exterior walls, insulation, roof, furnace, air conditioner, water heater and replaced the falling down back porch SO FAR.
It is the old story of having money and no time or lots of time and no money. Takes a while to get 'er done that way.
In the mean time we have done a lot of learning and a lot of living here.
I am ready to build that little energy efficient farm house now.
The roof on our current house was great, 20 year old steel roof in excellent condition (shingles don't last out here in the country lol I always wonder why people shingle their home only to replace every 2 years when they could have splurged and bought the steel and not replaced for 50 years, yanno?). Wiring was for the most part done by the old owner 20 years ago, all new copper, upstairs was insulated and drywalled 20 years ago (our ceilings are still old plaster though, beautiful curve to them!). Windows are all broken lol and one is actually falling OUT of the opening!
Our place is circa 1850-60s though
Deffo will never be energy efficient lol, but it'll be better. Have you ever had a chunk of your shower fall off while you were sudsing your hair? LOL I did. The last guy who owned this place LOVED the bathroom, he said it was beautiful. Then again, he came from a country where quite a few people don't have indoor plumbing......................
hwillm1977
Almost Self-Reliant
Yep... that sounds about like our house, except that when we moved in there was no electricity and no running water and the house had been abandoned about 6 years prior... it had been broken into and the plumbing removed and the wiring had been installed in 1908 and was all knob and tube, most of which had been eaten by mice so we couldn't turn it on.lupinfarm said:Our place is circa 1850-60s though
I lived here alone with my two dogs (hubby was a truck driver), in november, with no heat, no lights and no water until we could find people to come and get things started fixed... it was only two weeks... I got a trial gym membership near my work so I could shower
Like Farmfresh we're on the 10 year reno plan
which will probably stretch to 20 years at the rate we seem to get anything done. I'd love to see pics of your place too lupinfarm... I LOVE old houses
