Recent content by Bones032

I own a home that is 98 years old, which means things are not perfectly made. I am trying to put a new door in the bathroom. I noticed the door frame is off a bit, causing the new door not to fit properly. The door frame is a quarter inch higher on the handle side than on the hinge side. When...

It is a plaster/lath construction, not drywall. Still trying to figure if I just want to drywall over everything, or tile it. Local handyman gave me an estimate of $850 to drywall the whole bathroom(minus the shower area)

Thanks for the replies. Snoonyb, what do you mean by 1/4 rnd on the top? Some kind of 1/4 inch molding where the tile stops you mean?

First time homeowner here. The bathroom wall in the home I bought had some crappy tileboard covering the bottom half of the wall. I pulled it off and realized that the wall had been tiled before. Instead of properly scraping off the old Tile adhesive, they just covered it with the crappy...

So I am buying a home, and I am trying to figure out a fix for a needed repair. The back of the house looks like it used to have a porch that was removed. Instead of sealing the wall up properly for the outside, they tried a quick fix and smeared some concrete over the interior brick, foam...