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- Tue May 26, 2020 8:27 pm
- Forum: Construction Zone
- Topic: Gothichome, the restoration of.
- Replies: 736
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Re: Gothichome, the restoration of.
I've been noticing that the newer LED lights seem to improve picture quality over incandescent and especially flourescent. I can't say for gas Gas lights make for... interesting pictures. Not awfully bright (i.e. requiring sloooooow shutter speeds) and a very odd yellowish/greenish hue. Welsbach bu...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:06 pm
- Forum: Craftsman's Guild
- Topic: What lurks beneath the For Sale paint?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 713
Re: What lurks beneath the For Sale paint?
phil wrote:It's always to hear Texas's take from a European perspective. this is always interesting !
Phil
Thanks! I'll keep up my "outside perspective posts" unless anyone complains about being bored!
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 1:34 am
- Forum: Smith's Home Appliance
- Topic: Stove Names and Sympathetic Magic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5243
Re: Stove Names and Sympathetic Magic
There's some new stuff with unfortunate naming too... I distinctly remember two gas BBQs named Kilimanjaro (doesn't get hot) and Vesuv (blows up in your face)!
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 1:25 am
- Forum: Smith's Home Appliance
- Topic: 1929 Hoover model 725 upright vacuum
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5904
Re: 1929 Hoover model 725 upright vacuum
as a young man, my father sold and repaired vacuum cleaners....he moved on to sell and repair larger industrial tools but always knew his way around an Electrolux vac or tornado polishing machine...as a young woman, I worked in my father's shop...when an armature (the copper coiled 'guts' that were...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:50 pm
- Forum: Construction Zone
- Topic: A New/Old Addition for the Stone House
- Replies: 37
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Re: A New/Old Addition for the Stone House
That much work, just to get plaster walls! In Germany, Austria and quite a few neighbouring countries they'd have nailed reed mats to the logs, possibly also notched the logs with a hatchet to provide extra keying and plastered right over that! In Scandinavia they'd have done that or later covered t...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:44 pm
- Forum: District Common
- Topic: What I did at my house today...
- Replies: 3042
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Re: What I did at my house today...
The last picture looks like a Knob & Tube splice, old house wiring.
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:59 pm
- Forum: Craftsman's Guild
- Topic: What lurks beneath the For Sale paint?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 713
Re: What lurks beneath the For Sale paint?
If it's shiny it isn't calcimine. Calcimine is flat, flat, flat! Shiny means oil paint, possibly linseed oil. Useless trivia: in most European countries oil paint was ever only used on walls as a cheap substitute for tile, i.e. rarely more than the bottom 5 or 6 feet. Everything else was painted fla...
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:51 pm
- Forum: District Common
- Topic: What I did at my house today...
- Replies: 3042
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Re: What I did at my house today...
Are chrome traps really that expensive in CA? I did a 1-minute Google search and the cheapest 1 1/4" chrome P trap in Austria (big-box DIY store) turned out at 6.95 - it doesn't get much closer to free, that's the price of a cheap pizza!
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Picture: https://www.hornbach.de/data/shop/D04/0 ... 093514.jpg
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 5:10 pm
- Forum: Neighborhood Introductions
- Topic: Beebe -- our 1935 Bungalow on Baker Street.
- Replies: 433
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Re: Beebe -- our 1935 Bungalow on Baker Street.
Fairly sure you couldn't fit the rack I posted - it's close to 3 feet wide (rough guess).
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:29 pm
- Forum: Neighborhood Introductions
- Topic: Beebe -- our 1935 Bungalow on Baker Street.
- Replies: 433
- Views: 70599
Re: Beebe -- our 1935 Bungalow on Baker Street.
OK, some good arguments for a dryer in your case I'd say! Our fold-out rack is right above the tub so you can either shower or dry laundry, that's a bit of a downside. You can take a bath though if you pulls the laundry all the way back. This is what it looks like: m We've got it high enough above t...