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OK, so we have taken all the garbage outof the house and are beging the demo part. Thanks to some good advise on here, we will be starting with the roof, and outside walls. WE have found something called the ZIP system, it seems like a good product. While we will be initially using a shingle on...

Thank you frozenstar, we have been looking at houses for about a year, and up until this one, the asking price was too high for the work to be done, or it was a good price, but someone elses dream home. We did not want to buy an exsisting home that didn't fit what we wanted. When we came across...

we looked closely at the roof, the actual structure itself, is good, I maybe used the wrong word when i said it was good..lol. There are a few places , as mentioned above, that will need repair. While we are still going to go with a metal roof, we will be fixing the exsiting one 1st. The trim...

So we bought this property as a project to make it our 1st home together. :) With that said, it is a project, the origional structure was built in 1926, beautifuly, hower in the years to follow the house has been "improved" by half assed measures. None of the improvements added to the beauty...

Ok, so, Steven went over the house yesterday with a flashlight and knee pads..LOL. We have found that the foundation is sound, as is the roof with only 1 exception, a small spot where the Ivy from hell ripped a bit of trim, and some water was coming in there, a easy patch job. Thank you for all...

We thought so too, however, we did find that there are a few places where soffit tented shingle, and where they tried to cover the chimney, that seem to be the issue, the actual roof itself seems to be ok. Of course once we can get up into the attic ( which will hopefully be a 2nd bedroom) we...

I would do it! It sounds like you really want to improve this space. I am the kind of "use all your space" person. It sounds like a fun small project, that could feed your need to re-modle bug. :) Good luck and post some pic's !

Well here is my very first post for our project! I am sure that as we go along i will post questions in their right places, but my first question is rather general, so here we go. We just bought our little piece of dirt. It's not much, and not liveable yet, but we hope to change that. Just a...

Hello, We have just bought a piece of property that needs help. We are very excited to get started, but will need lots of help throughout the process! We're gald to have found this site and look forward to all the advice thats here! Mel & Steven