natnov
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Congratulations and good luck :rockin:
Thx!
Congratulations and good luck :rockin:
Congratulations and good luck :rockin:
I am jealous. A friend and myself had a donor car we had torn apart to do LeMons with, and were given pretty much all of the parts needed to have it running. We never got around to getting a roll cage installed and then his wife made him get rid of the car. Sad.
That is a great theme though. My mom had the Oldsmobile version of that astro-van. My brother loaned it out to a friend one night and they rolled it. That van was still running as they drove it onto the wrecker. Those things are beasts for being made of plastic.
Finished up my kitchen remodeling project. It has taken 6 months. What an amazing feeling.
As a serial remodeller, trust me...your are not done.
This is why I'm glad we are buying a 60's house rather than the 1900-1920's houses we were also looking at.
Admittedly, the kitchen needs redoing, but at least it's fairly modern and all the plumbing and other services are in the roughly the right places and use recognizable fittings.
Yes, but you get to deal with "interesting" insulation details, asbestos and lead paint still plus the potential for particle board subflooring. Every era of houses have their own special issues.
My 1930's house has subfloor, then conduit, sleepers covered by 3/4" oak flooring...everything squeaks even is a 15 pound dog walks up there. Though in conduit, all the wiring was still cloth covered and every switch was "end-of-line". Some of the drain pipe was cast iron (good in our environment) but all trunk lines were galvanized. My walls have NO insulation but the drywall is coated in a 1/4" of plaster so sound does not transmit from room to room.
Do not get me started on the issue of the first wave of mass-produced homes (no coating the post WWII bungalows) in the 1970'sand 1980's.
With ANOTHER cast iron tub. f**kin thing is still over 300 lbs. old one estimated to be near 500 lbs. ugh..... Somebody shoot me.
Been there, done that. Break the old tub up with a 20# sledge. It is easier if you make a cut on both sides of the rim/skirt just enough to remove all the structural integrity then pound a cold chisel into the cut and the whole tub will eventually just split in half.
I refuse to put a new cast iron tub into any remodel (ever again) but I could see doing it if it is not an alcove installation. I would just get it on a couple of furniture dollies and roll it into place then use my engine hoist to lift it off the dollies and do the mortar bed. Any other scenario is going solid surface or good quality fiberglass.
I've been looking at this thing six ways from Sunday, measuring, re-measuring, drawing it up in CADD, rotating, flipping, all that.......dammit.... there is NO way this thing will slide in.
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