The Historic District

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...

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!

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)!

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...

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...

The last picture looks like a Knob & Tube splice, old house wiring.

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...

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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Fairly sure you couldn't fit the rack I posted - it's close to 3 feet wide (rough guess).

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...