Recent content by idlehands

I wasn't going to bother with the shingles, they are stained and just look like stained shingles. ITs all the bubblling and missing paint that i need to tear up. I wasn't going to use a heat gun. The thing i'm actually thinking about to justify the paintshaver is not only for the outside paint...

I just moved into an american four square home built in the 1920's a few years ago. The first level has some horrible cracked, peeling,bubbling and gone paint, and the second level is brown stained shingles. My plan is to send the wife and newborn away on vacation in May, and take a week off...

I think I would have better luck convincing the wife to let me use a fiberglass door there over having a wood door with foamboard affixed to the back of it.

In my kitchen hallway is a wooden door to my basement and then 4/5' from that door is another door to the outside of the house. My basement is very cold and drafty, and I would like to find a door in the style of the house(5-panel horizontal, craftsman style) that is insulated. I would just get...

They look like that, except for the inch or so galvanized pipe that go to them, instead of the half inch copper in that picture. I assume thats half inch copper at least. Is the suggestion to replace them with other radiators or a baseboard heat? Baseboard heat would require quite a bit of...

My house has a pile of hot-water radiators(i suspect the system used to be a steam system, not sure if that makes a difference). They have been painted white at some point(house is from 1920s, and i think it only had one previous owner and when we moved in it seemed everything had a coat of...