Category: Conservation
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International Day For Biodiversity
A really quick post, since it has been a few months since I posted anything. It’s not that there is nothing that I think is interesting to post, just that I’ve been busy on other website work and carpentry projects. I’ve been using the excuse that I have used my twitter account to post neat…
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From Rotten Window Sill To Finished Millwork
No pictures wer taken of the huge window coming out, or the new windows going in. It would have made a great blog post, however it would have been too long. It took most of an afternoon. I thought the old windw would be around 350lbs but it was more like 450 lbs. In order…
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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…