Post by: gunug on October 23, 2006, 12:32:17 PM
Two galleries of invention from "This Old House" website:
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tohnews/ga...1220600,00.html
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tohnews/ga...1548031,00.html
Post by: Parker on October 23, 2006, 05:22:38 PM
Post by: krissel on October 24, 2006, 02:14:15 AM
Hey, I can relate to this:
Post by: Gregg on October 24, 2006, 07:41:02 AM
Post by: gunug on October 24, 2006, 08:08:25 AM
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Hey, I can relate to this. . .
Yep, that is actually kind of pretty!
Post by: jcarter on October 24, 2006, 09:23:15 AM
My husband has done some repairs for neighbours and friends, and we realize that we should have taken some pictures.
My aunt's old house built in 1750s had tree trunks for supports and the carrying beams above the dirt cellar still had the bark on some of them. They were trees cut lengthwize.
We found some really old and valuable glass bottles in the attic and some really old coins in the well that was sealed off under the floor where the 'new' gas stove was.
Jane
Post by: Mrious_be on October 24, 2006, 10:19:43 AM
Thanks for the links, had some good laughs with some, others were kinda creepy though (like the dead bird stuck in the vent).
Post by: Paddy on October 24, 2006, 10:44:28 AM
For a couple of years in the '80s, prior to buying my first house, I lived in a small apartment building near the corner of Bloor and Palmerston in Toronto. It was three floors, and had been built as a triplex with one apartment on each floor. However, over the years, the 2nd and 3rd floor had been subdivided into one bedroom apartments, though in my case we shared a hallway - my bedroom and bathroom were on the same hallway as the bachelor apartment at the back of the 3rd level (very weird, when I think about it now...). Anyway, the building was owned by a Chinese family by the name of Wong; the daughter was a friend of my part-time employer. Mr. Wong's maintenance was a tad odd, to say the least.
One Saturday morning, my downstairs neighbor, Barb, heard a knock on the door and answered it to find Mr. Wong standing there. Mr. Wong's English wasn't terribly good, but he asked Barb for a slice of bread. She wondered if she'd heard him correctly.
"Bread?"
"Yes, a slice of bread"
"Ok...would you like it toasted?"
"No, no - just bread"
"Buttered? Jam?" asked the increasingly perplexed Barb.
"No, just bread please," said Mr. Wong.
So, off she went and got him a slice of bread. Extremely curious by now, she peered out the front door into the foyer to see what he did with it.
For a number of weeks, we'd had hole in the drywall right by the front door - I don't remember now what caused it. To Barb's astonishment, Mr. Wong busily stuffed the bread in the hole and proceeded to apply spackle.
So...if the hardware store is closed or you're too cheap for one of those fiberglass patches, there's always bread!
(Just don't blame me if you get mice, the bread shrinks or some blue fuzzy stuff grows on your wall!)
Post by: jcarter on October 24, 2006, 11:37:46 AM
Say you have a leaky water pipe and its in the cellar, so you are trying to drain everything so you can solder it and not have a cold solder joint(nasty words for that). But you just cant get it all out, darn thing still dripping, so you stuff a piece of white bread up the pipe, cram it in with a little dowel, grab the torch QUICKLY heat the now-dry pipe and solder its new section in. Then about 5 minutes later, go and turn the system on again, and the bread dissolves and goes away not harming anything. I swear it works, the bread absorbs just enough and long enough for you to solder succesfully.
Jane
Post by: kimmer on October 24, 2006, 05:52:49 PM
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For a number of weeks, we'd had hole in the drywall right by the front door - I don't remember now what caused it. To Barb's astonishment, Mr. Wong busily stuffed the bread in the hole and proceeded to apply spackle.
OH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Too funny!!!!!!
Our next door neighbor has a pine tree growing in her gutter. When Sneakers told her, she said she'd get it removed. That was back in May.
Personally having looked at all those pics, I'm glad we watched our home being built.
