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  • Tools to Love and Tools to Kill For

    Killer tools. They’re out there waiting for a user to take hold of them and go berserk on a renovation job.  Drills with more torque than the car you drive; Reciprocating saws that dim all the lights in the house when used. Tools to love Chisels with beechwood handles made in Japan by ancient Samaria…

  • The Name of Our Library

    I’ve been wondering what to call our library in the basement. Really it’s not that big, but I have yet to count the books. They have been sorted into a fiction side (the left) and the non-fiction side. Below this level, we sorted out some major topics, such as religion ( it’s near the middle…

  • The Lonely Library of Thomas Hepburn

    Built-ins are coming back into style.  My house has a built-in bookshelf.  I’m not that proud of it.  It was one of those projects where a tight budget and a tight deadline ruled the project.  On the other hand it does hold a lot of books, more that it should now that I look at…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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