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So I tore my brick flu down on the weekend. It was in bad shape, so I have not burned wood for a couple of years. It ran up through the center of the house, and had started to leak, so I finally had to get off my keaster and get it done. While on the roof I became alarmed at how bad my shingles...

One of the many to do list things here is to beef up my floor joists. My house was built in 74. It's 24 x 48. There were a lot of sins committed when they built her, just one surprise after another. The floor joists are 14 foot 2x8s at 15 inch centers. I have always a bounce, but the other day...

I have a home that was built in 1974. I removed the old cladboards, and found the house sheathed in dynaconda, or tentest, or whatever you want to call it . On the east facing gable end of the house, I removed the tentest, and replaced it with plywood. A carpenter told me not to bother pealing...