When was your house built?
- Before 1800
- 1800-1849
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looks like andy c hasn't voted yet
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1906.
100 yrs old this year.
Never looked better.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
1800's? Bwahahahaha
1680 work for ya...and it's almost done too...lol
View Image Where can I find a man who has forgotten words?I would like to have a word with him.—Chuang-Tzu
ladders for sale? cheap!
Mine is 1927. Prior owners Tinker (Wall Street Investor), Nickerson (Legislator, Secretary of the Navy), Grace (W.R. Grace), Gimbals (Department Store), Me (Jew). Proof of entropy.
" Prior owners Tinker (Wall Street Investor), Nickerson (Legislator, Secretary of the Navy), Grace (W.R. Grace), Gimbals (Department Store), Me (Jew). Proof of entropy."ROFLMAO!!!!Rich BeckmanAnother day, another tool.
Are houses ever "finished?"
I believe there's a Chinese proverb: House finished, man die.
I believe there's a Chinese proverb: House finished, man die.>>>>>
Ruth,
I always liked Lisa L's tag...
"A finished house, is a listed house".
Just don't tell DW...she may be gettin' sick of moving every five years
: )~ Where can I find a man who has forgotten words?I would like to have a word with him.—Chuang-Tzu
I'm gonna be around for a looooooooooong time.
Joe H
What...no picture? Where can I find a man who has forgotten words?I would like to have a word with him.—Chuang-Tzu
Jeez Andy, if you need any more ladders, lemme know.
Picture reminds me of the Christmas cards,,,,oops Holiday cards i sent out last year. shows a house with a bunch of ladders everywhere and a bunch of workers carying tools and materials.
1680 work for ya...and it's almost done too...lol
Wow, only took 326 years to finish...that is even slower than I work. ;)
I always liked Lisa L's tag..."A finished house, is a listed house".Just don't tell DW...she may be gettin' sick of moving every five years
Based on what you said property taxes were out there, I'd be thinking of moving too. Sell that place and buy 200 acres in Montana. Bet property taxes are cheaper out there.
Or is there still zeal for NZ?
jt8
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." --Albert Schweitzer
Or is there still zeal for NZ?>>>>>>>>>.Seems to be too much of a pain in the azz for us over 55 year olds being they don't want us so I'm giving up on that idea.
Yeh,,,noving to Montana soon...gonna be a dental floss tycoon. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words?I would like to have a word with him.—Chuang-Tzu
Yeh,,,noving to Montana soon...gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
Well, just to satisfy MY curiousity, lets see what ground goes for out there. Hmm...here is someone selling 22,500 acres:
http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=1&locallnk=yes&frm=byzip&mnbed=0&mnbath=0&mnprice=0&mxprice=99999999&js=off&pgnum=1&fid=so&stype=&mnsqft=&mls=xmls&areaid=59058&poe=realtor&zp=59058&sbint=&vtsort=&sorttype=&typ=1&typ=6&typ=5&x=58&y=8&sid=0747AA7A4A8EC&snumxlid=1066833513&lnksrc=00002
About $380/acre, which is a WHOLE lot cheaper than it sells for hereabouts. But that is a bit more acres than I can afford. By my calculations, that would be about 35 sq miles. Pretty good spread.
Move that acreage decimal over one place and here's 2240 acres:
http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=1&locallnk=yes&frm=byzip&mnbed=0&mnbath=0&mnprice=0&mxprice=99999999&js=off&pgnum=1&fid=so&stype=&mnsqft=&mls=xmls&areaid=59087&poe=realtor&zp=59087&sbint=&vtsort=&sorttype=&typ=1&typ=6&typ=5&x=41&y=9&sid=0747AB9B9750C&snumxlid=1043978673&lnksrc=00002
At about $780/acre
jt8
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." --Albert Schweitzer
2003.
A work in progress. If I ever get it 100% done, I'll have to move.
John
J.R. Lazaro Builders, Inc.
Indianapolis, In.
Edited 9/17/2006 1:11 pm ET by JLazaro317
I voted for the house I own, 1915.
apartment I'm living in: 2006.
I prefer 1915.
zak
"so it goes"
By "built" do you mean finished?
Back to the future here.
Joe H
1921.
Third owner. Red brick bungalow.
Historic district
Heart pine floors.live, work, build, ...better with wood
Edited 9/16/2006 6:04 pm ET by stevent1
1886. Addition in 1916. addition (mine) in 1992.
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Forrest
Specifically, finished December, 1951, for the first Assistant Principal of the then brand-new elementary school nearby.
Mine was built in 1913. I guess it's kind of a Georgian/Colonial/Shingle/whatever...
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Edited 9/16/2006 8:37 pm ET by Stuart
Love the front entrance dude!
Whats the name of that shingle pattern?....only done it a handful of times....can't recall what its called.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
I've heard it called double coursing, but I'm not sure if that's the proper term. When I was researching the history of the house, I found a copy of the original architect's plan book in the local library and all he said was "...alternate courses of wide and narrow shingles."
I've had to patch it in spots here and there, and this pattern sure makes for a lot of shingles to replace.
2003
Ribbon coursing. Makes it a lot easier to place your windows at different heights and cheat the exposure when things go a little wrong sometimes. My last house was an alternating 6.5" and 3" exposure, but I fudged it alot due to the sagging that had occured in the past. No way of noticing it.
Very very nice entrance way. It has the overtones of Arts & Crafts there too which makes sense given the date. My favorite era.
and here's the one I did before my 1680 house.
Built in 1951 just like me and I re-did it in 2001ish...and re-did me in 2004ish...does that countish...lol?
I would like to have a word with him.
—Chuang-Tzu
1920 , master bedroom and bath in progress
Surprised you didn't have a 2000 or later category. Post 1945 is pretty long duration.
Post 1945 is pretty long duration.
Depends on what you're trying to find out.
jt8
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." --Albert Schweitzer
First house: 1906
Second house: 1935
Third house: 1820
Fourth house: 1920
Current house: 1838
Growing up, my first five years were in a 1955 New Moon mobile home, 8 feet by ??. Very cool. True to what it was. If you've seen the old Lucy and Desi movie where they buy a trailer, it was just like that.
From age five to 22, I lived in a 1964 New Moon mobile home. Not as cool, but 10 feet wide. Still essentially true to its heritage, but by then trailers were trying to be more "house-like" (fake shutters, more angular overall shape). Now mobile homes are simply cheap, light-weight, ugly house wanna-be's.
Allen
Built new in '90-'92,but some exterior items not finished yet,porch,garage.
What kind of roof does it have?
"Let's go to Memphis in the meantime, baby" - John Hiatt.
http://grantlogan.net/
I bet you know the answer!
Some of the best slate ever quarried-from the Monson belt about 80 miles from here.Of course it was on other roofs prior to my salvage efforts-so it's already served one house well.It still has 80 to 100 years left.
Garage hasn't had it applied yet-both the roof and sidewalls will be slate.Patterned on the walls.
Slateman, is there a site you know of with patterns?
I've seen a few while traveling that I wish I had pictures of, but never been able to find anything on the web that has what I'm looking for.
Joe H
How does two weeks old sound. been working on it for 2 years. It's only done enough to move into ( don't want to get too carried away). 100' up and 200" away from the Pacific.
Nowhere near enough patience to be able to post a pic.
Joe,
I don't know of any web site that would have patterns,but that certainly doesn't mean there are none.
I had salvage slates of 7"x12" that I devised a hex pattern for my garage walls.
A lot of cutting but should add a nice touch.
I guess what I need is one of those "coffee table books" like of old barns or whatever that is focused on different roof patterns. It's not the shape of the shingles I'm after, it's different colors laid into designs.
I've seen some beauties over the years, but no pictures alas.
None around here, bet Denver would be the closest place to find anything like that.
That's going to be quite a garage, heavy too. No slate around here to play with, I'm thinking of faking it with fake slate from Tamco. They have a bunch of colors and from a distance it looks nice.
Fake but nice, that's the ticket.
Joe H
Known standing in 1885, pretty old for the west coast.
Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
My house, according to local lore, was built in 1900. However, I've torn into every original wall, and all the exterior sheathing was covered with newspapers dating 1892 and 1893 (one had a story on the U.S.-backed coup in Hawaii). I'd think, even if the builder were hoarding newspapers, they'd span the full range until the place was built. By the way, the exterior stud cavities were filled with smelter slag -- around a quarter-ton per bay, more in the balloon walls.
My other place, 12 miles up the mountain at 12,000', is shown on the 1879 patent survey as a blacksmith shop.
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I envy you, Ted. What a stunning location to call home...
started in 1852........
still not done.
Help a poor student out here...
Do you know if those eliptical arches are original to the house?
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Yup....you ought to see jow they are made up........little 1" blocks between the shaped 14" wide int & ext faces......
This is the house I mentioned once in reference to trim sizes.........14" plaster crown in the liv room, 12" in dining, 10" in entry...etc.
Have yet to take int photos.....
Well--really the main house was a 25x25 house built for workers at a commercial nursery. THAT was built in the 20's. Then I added an addition that doubled the footprint in the 90's. I also completely gutted the old part of the house after we moved into the new part.
(My wife is a saint, because we lived in the old house while the construction was going on in back and overhead. And we are still married.)