by waaytoomuchintothis » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:34 pm
Thanks. A friend of mine in Memphis bought a fine old house that appeared to be in remarkable, original condition in 1981. He and his wife moved into one bedroom and the kitchen and spent over a year finding out how wrong they were about the condition of the old house. It was original, all right. Nothing had ever been modernized, renewed, fixed, etc. Imagine pulling all new wiring through a two-story, six bedroom house built in 1922! He had a pile of the old "spool and tie" insulators and ancient braided silk wire in his back yard that was impressive by the time he was done. He and I learned how to match sheetrock to plastered walls that summer. Huge job. Anyway, he had a marker board in his basement with the tools that listed what there was to do a step at a time. The title of the board at the top was "House of Corrections".
Do you have old gaslight pipes to remove? Be very careful if you do.