Category: Conservation
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How Much Does a House Weigh Part 3: Wrecking Bar Basics
I was going to go into detail about all the tools I use for starting a building restoration project. Then it occurred to me that I had seen an article that covered the basics on the basics. Wrecking bars. I found it in a January 1985 edition of The Family Handyman. I’m too busy this…
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How Much Does a House Weigh Really
In my last post, I was talking about house moving. There is a whole segment of residential construction referred to in several ways. “Modular homes”, “Manufactured homes” and “Mobile homes”. These terms describe any home which is manufactured somewhere other than where it is to be lived in – usually a factory. The house is…
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How Much Does a House Weigh?
When you look for a house mover, you are most likely looking for someone to move the contents – boxes, bed, tables etc. – inside your current home to another one. There is another kind of house mover, one that moves the actual house. Most of these companies specialize in mobile homes. Mobile homes…
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Rain-barrel Rack Part TWO
If you haven’t already, read Part One of this 2 part article on Rain barrel collection which goes over the platform that the barrels sit on. Here is the assembled product. Originally I mentioned that I was going to throw some plumbing into this article. So here it is.. I will admit that some of…
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Rainbarrel Rack Part ONE
The images in the article have been affected by an old online storage provider I used to use a long time ago It seems that imageshack.us corrupted some (or all) of my images. I have since copied what was salvageable and placed in on my server. Some images do not have full sizes to view. …
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Sourcing Materials
This post will give all of my clients, past, present and future, a look into the unique ways I source my materials for a job. Most tradesmen have their secret sources for materials. Places where you can find the super deal on building supplies or the products which are not stocked at your big box…