baseballmom
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Who is starting with you?? 
What the matter Azzy.. I think she is seeing dead people again.. 
What the matter Azzy.. I think she is seeing dead people again.. 
Fixing door hole
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Chain729
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RadioPatrol said:Might be expensive but the right "wood shop" - cabinet maker could probably patch, replace, broken sections - like a rebuild rather than a replace - the hardest part would be matching the old pattern in the square sections ....
I am Guessing there are recessed panels ?
My Grandma's house was put up in 1903, had a 2nd floor toilet supply line break when she was gone for a week, by the time she got home the living room floor was so warped a board had popped out ..... Insurance paid for all the walls to be redone, floors fixed ...... the guys did a fairly decent job .... what I liked to see was inside the walls .... real 2x4's, the old transom over the front door no one remembered that had been covered over with a front door change .... the old cloth covered wiring from 1920's hot and neutral run 6 inches apart in the attic in ceramic insulators ...... fascinating stuff
Sorry to Digress, I love working with my hands, and the old stuff is neat !
Wow. Some of that I'd love to see.
My wiring isn't quite that old; but for a guy that electrical design for living it does scare me. I have a CB panel in the basement that's at least 20 years old and I still have the original 4-fuse, fuse panel that's operational and hidden behind the fridge. One of these days I'll have someone upgrade my service and install a new CB panel that doesn't cost me $25 plus shipping a CB and has enough room to re-wire the house properly.
Somethings are built extremely well though. There's not an ounce of plywood in the entire house. Granted, plywood is stronger than boards, though, at least IMO, it doesn't hold up as well over time. Though the floor-joist spacing is close by today's standards, the walls will piss you off. Some of the 2X4's are sidways for some stupid reason and aren't evenly spaced 16" on center, or any other measurement. With the drywall being two boards thick and some 2X4's being sidways, you can't always find a stud by knocking and it drives stud-finders absolutely batty.
The doors that can be fixed, I have the tools and knowledge to fix, just not the time. Basically, on those the joints are coming apart and the wood is seperating. One has a few nails popped into it that would have to be carefully pulled out. All the joints would have to be sanded quite a bit since somebody decided to paint them- trying to hide the fact that they're coming apart.
There are 2 that can't be fixed, which unfortunately were two of the good ones. A demon broke his leash one night...
Penn
Dancing Up A Storm
CrunchTime said:You are too funny! Spoken like a man.
Depending where the hole is, generally I just put a picture over it, but its hard given the location of where this hole is that she specified. I guess duct tape wouldn't really be noticed though :shrug:
Duct tape now comes in several colors; silver, the original, red, white, black, and for the outdoorsy types - camouflage!
Think of it: use the camouflage tape, and no one would even notice the blemish was ever there!