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Greetings, this weekend my wife and I are taking Friday off to tackle this project. First some background: we have a 1929 story and a half home and from everything we can tell the upstairs (or half story) was refinished or finished in the 1960s, although there are radiators upstairs tied into...

How would you frame this awkward corner spot? This space will be used as a walk in closet. The master bedroom is behind the insulated door.

Greetings!, my wife and I are about to start our first major home IMPROVEMENT project (all the other projects have been REPAIR). For background; we have a 1929 story and a half Tudor home in Minneapolis. The half story is almost completely finished except for a 11'x10' space off of the master...

Can someone help identify this door style? All the houses in our area have this style but of course the previous owners of our house got rid of theirs...

Greetings! my wife and I are planning to remodel our kitchen. Our house is a 1929 1.5 story Tudor-style in South Minneapolis, Minnesota. We haven't decided what flooring we are going to go with but we are considering bamboo or a hardwood. My question is; how do I deal with the potential...

Our house is a 1929 tudor in south Minneapolis, above the mantle was a mirror that we just removed, the mirror was dated on the back 1960. This backing is heavy duty cardboard. What could be underneath this?

Hello, I have a one pipe steam heat system and our bedroom radiator gets really hot at night, so I've decided to replace the air vent with a thermostatic radiator vent. I bought the parts from pec supply. My question is does this assembly look correct? I used Teflon tape on all joints except the...

Greetings, I have a story and a half Tudor home in Minneapolis. The majority of the upstairs is finished except for this area right off of the master bedroom. It measures roughly 11ft by 11ft at the floor but as you can see the roof/gables are slanted dramatically. Here are photos...

Hi I have a one pipe steam heat system in my home. One of my radiators has a bad valve on it, it's basically ready to fall off and when the system is on steam shoots out of the area where it connects to the radiator. Any idea where and which part I need? I was think of getting a thermostatic...

Greetings! I recently purchased a 1928 Tudor in South Minneapolis which has a... Steam Boiler Heat System! Not to be confused with a hot water system. Basically they are very similar with radiators that discharge steam into the air being one of the differences. So hopefully someone out there...

One background: the house was built in 1928 and based on what I can feel walking around on the basement floor it is fairly thin. I just bought it and my inspector told me to sledge hammer out the cracks and broken up areas and pour new concrete. Does that sound about right? Any chance I can do...

Hello, I am new to the forum and new to home ownership! My fiancée and I are in the process of purchasing our first home and I'd like to get some opinions on my roof. Obviously it is older and probably ready to be replaced, however, with winter coming on in Minnesota we probably won't be able to...