When the Covid-19 pandemic shut everything down (just 2 weeks to flatten the curve, right?) — and it was near impossible to get your hands on building materials — I decided to upcycle. I reused a bunch of materials and built a shed.
Oops! We didn’t actually build this house (as I said in the video), but we did put on an addition. In this video, I talk about some design issues with our eavestrough installation and how I dealt with it.
When you’re renovating a house built in the 1880’s, you find all sorts of interesting things. Frying pans in the walls, car jacks in the attic, 70-year-old license plates and car parts buried in the side yard, and this (???). We’re lucky our house is still standing.
This was a quick project. I had a second-floor dormer window that needed to be replaced in our old house. Apologies for the wind at the beginning of the video. The sound does get better.
The stairs in this old house needed some serious work. They were fire-damaged, rotting, and pretty unsafe. I reclaimed what I could and rebuilt them so they are much sturdier now. Here’s what I did.
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