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My "New" House (1883 Cottage Victorian)

veronicaetal@... — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:35:21 GMT

Congratulations! Sounds nice and very exciting for you! Veronica ng19delta" ng19delta@... ng19delta and by the time we finished Sunday evening, all the

My "New" House (1883 Cottage Victorian)

Desmarais — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:25 GMT

Sounds wonderful! Makes me remember our first days at this house. Pictures! We want pictures! Yvette - Deering NH

My "New" House (1883 Cottage Victorian)

ng19delta — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:23:52 GMT

Hi Everyone! This is actually my first post here, I have been in lurk mode till now, as I have been waiting until the sale was final, and I actually had

Re: Professional engineers

veronicaetal@... — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:35:18 GMT

"waldofritz" milroad@... waldofritz wrote: << I left and came back today to find that he had knocked a big hole in one of the floor boards without

Re: Professional engineers

David Freed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:31:27 GMT

I am an architect. If you are unhappy with the architect's consultant, i.e., the structural engineer, ask the architect to obtain a different consultant. DAVID

Professional enginers

cacblack@... — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:25:58 GMT

I had a not so good experience with an engineer recently as well. We wanted to use our 1890s carriage house as a garage in the winter and needed to see if the

Re: Professional engineers

waldofritz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:32:24 GMT

Bill, I'm encouraged by your response. You are so correct about the misreading of old buildings. When we were fighting to save our train depot we ran into the

Re: Professional engineers

Bill K — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:51:15 GMT

I've had quite a few experiences with engineers "mis-reading" old buildings. On several occasions, I was hired to dispute their findings. Some of these were

Professional engineers

waldofritz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00:06 GMT

Have any of you had and experiences with professionsal structural engineers going through old buildings? The reason for the question and I'm not trying to diss

Re: Christmas Ideas

waldofritz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:23:18 GMT

Excellent suggestions. Thanks Kim T

Re: Christmas Ideas

Bill K — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:03:47 GMT

Old Sturbridge Village contact info: http://www.osv.org/museum/contact.html ... From: waldofritz To: historichomes@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 05,

Re: Christmas Ideas

Bill K — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:55:37 GMT

Hi Kim, The folks at historic Old Sturbridge Village in Massachussets have done a lot of research on early to mid-19th century Christmas traditions. They used

Christmas Ideas

waldofritz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:22:53 GMT

Does anyone have some suggestions on how to decorate my miners cottage for Christmas circa 1855? The cabin is nearly finished and will be in the Shullsburg,

Re: lead paint

veronicaetal@... — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:43:17 GMT

"mariowalling" mariowalling@... mariowalling wrote: << The largest areas of the house were scraped and sanded to bare wood, and the front under the

Re: lead paint

mariowalling — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:03:17 GMT

I have been in the process for perhaps the past 5 to 7 years of restoring the outside of our 1900 Colonial from the hideous and horribly attached vinyl siding