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"Little Black Coupe Turned Silver" (littleblackcoupe) 09/12/2016 at 19:06 • Filed to: None

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Busting down walls. It sorta sucks. We knew the brick was back there, I want to expose it, so got to tear into the sheet rock. We will be putting up a header and leaving the wall as open as possible. That’s about as open concept as a house from 1940 can get without going insane on the remodel. This is between the dining room/kitchen and living room, picture was taken in the kitchen area.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 19:10

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Old houses are best houses.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 09/12/2016 at 19:13

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Especially when your grandparents built it new in 1940 and lived there for 65 years! My family sold it when they passed 10 years ago, but got to buy it back and now I’m going to live there.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 19:14

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That’s awesome. Whereabouts?

Brian, The Life of > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 19:15

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Those jerks make it seem like you can do anything to your house in the space of a weekend (and yet still I keep watching)

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 09/12/2016 at 19:31

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The middle. I have a road course still in my backyard, if that helps.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 19:32

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Ah. I actually like the way you answered, because for me, the state is divided into four parts; Omaha, Lincoln, The Middle, and The Panhandle. I don’t know cities.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > Brian, The Life of 09/12/2016 at 19:33

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I mean, I know it’s going to take a couple months before I can move in. But they make tearing down sheetrock look so easy! It’s not!

Brian, The Life of > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 19:40

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Just remember these truths and you may save your sanity:

It ALWAYS takes longer/costs more than you think it will

You will ALWAYS forget something/buy the slightly wrong thing on the first trip which will require a second trip to Home Depot

None of your walls are as square as you think they are (looks like you’re doing kitchen work - you will find this to be absolute when you install cabinets)

Measure twice, cut once OR measure once, cut (at least) twice ... your choice!

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > Brian, The Life of 09/12/2016 at 19:42

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Haha, there’s a reason I’m just painting the cabinets and leaving them there. I'm trying to keep as much as the house original while updating things here and there.

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 20:09

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...but why is that wall there in the first place?

Birddog > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 20:13

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Sorta sucks?? No. Nooooope. Sorta doesn’t cover it.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind 09/12/2016 at 20:19

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It was the exterior wall at one point, is what my dad remembers. Then around 1960 the kitchen was expanded to make a dining room space and it was covered up. The house wasn’t a square when it was built, because there’s also exterior wall to the left out of the picture.

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > Brian, The Life of 09/12/2016 at 20:57

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Cabinets are worst when your walls are so bad that they’re blatantly off square. 1950s house with bad foundation that I’m redoing kitchen in. I have come up with a lot of creative trim and other solutions...

shop-teacher > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 21:23

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That’s awesome! I gre up in the same house my dad grew up in. It had been in the family for 50 years when my parents sold it in ‘05. At the end of ‘12, about 6 months after my mom passed away, my dad bought it back. $5 says he’ll get carried out of that house when his time comes (hopefully a long time from now).

shop-teacher > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/12/2016 at 21:25

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The number one way I can tell somebody is a rank amateur who has no idea what they’re talking about, is the refer to demo work as, “fun.”

It’s drudgery, and that’s the nicest way I can describe it.

shop-teacher > Birddog 09/12/2016 at 21:26

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Yep. I immediately stop listening to anybody who calls demo work, “fun.”

Birddog > shop-teacher 09/12/2016 at 21:35

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The only people that call Demo work fun are the ones that get paid for it.

shop-teacher > Birddog 09/12/2016 at 21:49

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I still thought it sucked when I got paid for it. Now if I was in an excavator ripping stuff down, that would be different. Hand demo though, that just plain sucks.

Birddog > shop-teacher 09/12/2016 at 22:00

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I know a few guys that get really excited for demo work. I only got paid for it when it related to HVAC and/or Plumbing and hated every minute.

I tried becoming an Operator. Running those machines? So much fun! Even the mini excavators would make 8-10 hours go by in what seemed like minutes.

shop-teacher > Birddog 09/12/2016 at 22:22

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I had a rough end of the school year a couple years ago (the kids are mostly great, the adults ... ). They were tearing down an old Holiday Inn nearby, so I drove over there just about every break I got and watched them rip it down for a couple weeks. Just watching it was fun.

Birddog > shop-teacher 09/12/2016 at 22:52

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I can see that. When I was young and dumb I had a gig running a backhoe for a year. Digging sewer line trenches every day is surprisingly cathartic. A thermos of Coffee and a decent radio station? Good to go!

shop-teacher > Birddog 09/13/2016 at 00:15

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Sounds good to me!

Birddog > shop-teacher 09/13/2016 at 00:22

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Sometimes it’s the simple things.

Brian, The Life of > itranthelasttimeiparkedit 09/13/2016 at 00:39

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Shims are your friends!

Stef Schrader > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 09/13/2016 at 02:20

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Ooh, neat house.

shop-teacher > Birddog 09/13/2016 at 07:09

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Indeed it is.

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > Brian, The Life of 09/14/2016 at 18:14

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so many fucking shims though. original wood floor too, that is pretty warped. I *think* what I should really do is relevel with a subfloor or sand it level to start. I’m almost done and it looks good enough (I get honest compliments on it all the time) so I am happy haha

Brian, The Life of > itranthelasttimeiparkedit 09/14/2016 at 18:23

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Dude, if your subfloor is that far off, PLEASE check the support piers in your crawl space under them. They may need to be jacked-up/replaced if there’s been too much settling.

That said, my house was built in 1935 and I’ve used several board/feet worth of shims in the various and sundry projects I’ve done, haha.

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > Brian, The Life of 09/14/2016 at 21:27

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slab, we’re good. Its been fixed a few times, still structurally sound (or at least still were last time i had someone come look, like 2 years ago), just fucked up (it moves a couple inches each year, we’re on top of a giant natural spring). Moving out in ~6 months, so happy to not have a ghetto ass 1950s house anymore