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This view shows window over sink which will be changed for a larger one bumped out about 9 inches, size 36w x 48h. The other window will be removed and a 5 foot opening from master bedroom into a sitting room will be added
From dug trench, termite treatment, cement pour, block mortaring, reinforcing rods, lumber delivery, framing to.....what?
NOTE: added4/18/2019
This was taken a mere week after work began (Oct 27, 2014) on our whole house remodel. Further details of what you see above and what changes were actually made.
The kitchen window was NOT bumped out even an inch, because it could not be protected adequately from breakage in a hurricane. I wanted to have an “infinity” window behind the sink, with nothing between the countertop and outdoors except glass. It required the window to be installed after much was done, and it was a special e-glass constructed to fit within the framing for the OLD window. I enjoy this feature immensely today.
Further, the wooden exterior which is painted yellow above, was all removed along with a goodly portion of the old plaster and stucco back wall. The window on the back wall would be lost when a sitting room was added across the back, so more than a 5 foot wide opening was needed. It was serious labor required to remove the cement plaster for the kitchen and the bedroom. In the end, where a wall was removed we left a sub of the old wall and in the overhead the doubled 2x12 beams added to support the ceiling, were held up by the wall stubs. I considered it paying homage to the bones of the strong old house stick built in 1950 by a contractor for his mother.
The end walls of the 10 x 30 addition had NO WINDOWS in them. Bookcases were meant to go floor to ceiling in the north wall of the sitting room. The south wall would house the fridge and the stacking washer/dryer, with a pantry cabinet....I added an under-counter GE 2 drawer fridge for beverages, handy spot for coffee paraphernalia. The opposite wall, along the NORTH side of the house, had no windows because it would feature wall-to-wall wooden bookshelves on metal brackets, heavy duty to support lots of weight. Across the back wall would be almost-floor-to-ceiling e-glass windows non opening, six foot tall. This wall faces EAST. There is a deck no sign of it in this photo, but it spans nearly the entire back wall, and will feature a hot/cold outdoor shower.
The current shape of the roof will continue, reusing the roof vent in the new exterior attic. In the process, we replaced the entire roof with architectural shingles (not metal as I’d wanted); replaced the sewer line to the street; replaced the a/c heating unit; added a whole house Generac natural gas generator; replaced old electrical and upgraded to 200 amp electrical service; converted heat to natural gas; hot water to a tankless gas. Our gas bill increased but the amazing thing was how different our AVERAGE ELECTRICAL BILL changed.... it went from a $294 monthly average all year, down to $74 per month.. and it is still at $80/month almost five years later.
What would I do differently? I’d add total window replacement for the whole house, to further maximize energy savings. And, I’d seriously consider adding powered roll-down hurricane shutters.—since we had the generator to assure power, no manual deployment would be required as we aged.
Another note to older people who may be considering remodel of a home rather than downsize or whatever..... if as a couple one of you does not deal with change in your personal lives, it can produce some problems. Before committing money to a big remodel project, weigh your options.
House was built in 1870 and is one of the 1st homes built in historic Kirkwood, MO. There is no basement nor any usable living space under the house as it is now. EHM has been awarded the project and has elevated the home and now will create full 9' basement throughout footprint of home. This will add 1,400 sq. ft. of usable living space.
Installation of diverter valve for greywater system at new home construction site. A branched greywater system diverts discarded water from sinks and washing machines away from sewage lines, and recycles it back via a gravity fed drain system for irrigation and back into the aquifer. Los Angeles, California, USA
Once the temperature got into the teens, we started hearing funny noises from the crawlspace. I put in the trap one evening, the next this guy was found. He must have weighed 25 or 30 pounds.
Item 130352, Fleets and Facilities Department Imagebank Collection (Record Series 0207-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.
A french cleat system surrounds the shop. Here you see my clamp collection, Rikon bandsaw and Delta drum sander. The dust collection is run in the crawlspace
Morgan County, GA. Copyright 2007 D. Nelson
Morgan County, GA. Copyright 2007 D. Nelson
This is an old farm mansion that sits on a huge tract of land on GA 83 corner of Nolan's Store Rd. The bike group I used to ride with dubbed the house "The Bostwick Mansion"
and named a ride after it.
The "mansion", built in 1910, is actually the second home situated on what used to be a 2000 acre farm that operated from 1856-1970 [thanks to grits'n collards for the info]. The property includes a few sharecroppers' cabins several of which have now collapsed.
According to locals, the house has been vacant for 30 years now. It is owned by someone from Atlanta and is being restored albeit at a very, very slow pace.
According to Wikipedia: "The French drain has evolved significantly from its origins - starting off as a hand-dug ditch, moving on to ceramic tile, PVC pipe, and eventually to the new French drain innovations on the market like WaterGuard..."
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Went into the crawlspace earlier and found some of my old toy cars from childhood. This was my favorite from my collection, a late 70's Ford Bronco (unknown co.). Had its share of offroading in the muddy backyard. The lightbar's a replacement for the original, and the plastic window's been long gone.
Went into the crawlspace earlier and found some of my old toy cars from childhood. This 70's Chevy Blazer (unknown co.) was one of many old toy cars with the same Sheriff/Highway Patrol theme, all of which came from Switzerland in the early 90's.
House was built in 1870 and is one of the 1st homes built in historic Kirkwood, MO. There is no basement nor any usable living space under the house as it is now. EHM has been awarded the project and has elevated the home and now will create full 9' basement throughout footprint of home. This will add 1,400 sq. ft. of usable living space.
Brrr!!! It is the coldest since the forties. One degree F above the record low of 22deg F on this date. I have the hose spigot slightly open so the hose was dripping through much of the night. The dripping water formed an icicle stalagmite. It formed before the water froze in the hose and stopped dripping. The real goal is to keep the faucet from bursting. It is slightly open so it is less likely to crack. We are in the Sonoran Desert.
The air is dry and clear, so we get lots of radiative cooling as the ground radiates directly to the 3 deg Kelvin temperature of space! That's three degrees above absolute zero!!!
And since it never gets cold in Tucson, LOL, the building codes for insulating pipes and using drainable spigots are grossly inadequate... Two years ago I decided to order drainable faucets from the Northeast. However, I realized that I have no crawlspace to get at the pipes to put shutoffs inside a warm area, so the idea of draining pipes to the hose spigots was not feasible without major work. If I were 40 years younger, I would slowly excavate a basement under the house. But my knees would not survive a single day of digging.
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This is a picture of fiberglass insulation installed on the walls of a crawlspace that has standing water. This moisture is "wicked" up the insulation into the wood which causes the insulation to fall and mold to grow on the structural wood components of the home
It's a carport without a car to be seen! To be fair it was trellised off and set up to be a backporch. So now it houses all of this.
When Sheriff Nelson Gilbert Reynolds built this Gothic Revival home in 1859, it was the largest private residence in North America. In 1869, Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada's first prime minister, stayed here with Prince Arthur, who was making the first royal trip to Canada.
Later, though, both Whitby and the sheriff fell on bad times. One of Reynold's duties as sheriff was to repossess the properties of people who couldn't keep up the payments.
Eventually, the sheriff's own office came for his!
If you take the guided tour when they have an open house (it's now a girls' private school), they'll show you the little crawlspace where the sheriff used to hide so that they couldn't serve him his papers!
Day two of the floor demo and it's pretty much gone. All that remains are ledges to walk on, old insulation, and some of the most peculiar smells wafting up from the crawlspace. Long-dead critters, I suspect.
This center beam has been destroyed by termite damage. This picture is of the beam being crushed over a block pier.
The fiberglass is hanging on the joist by the staples. Eventually it will fall to floor from being so laden with moisture.
Went into the crawlspace earlier and found some of my old toy cars from childhood. This was my favorite from my collection, a late 70's Ford Bronco (unknown co.). Had its share of offroading in the muddy backyard. The lightbar's a replacement for the original, and the plastic window's been long gone.
The WaterGuard System is installed below the floor and above the footer. This system is designed to capture the water at its most common point of entry, where the floor and wall meet also known as the floor/wall joint. WaterGuard systems are also designed to capture water from the walls and leaky window wells. Everything here is prepped and ready. Check this out for more information: www.structuralrepaircolorado.com/basement-waterproofing/f...
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Here's the wall after the bees were removed. The 1x8 can be nailed or screwed back into position and the paneling stapled or glued back into place. Really the window trim and a triangular strip along the top of the baseboard held the paneling in place as much as the staples. While the cavity is open I'd suggest stuffing in some fiberglass wall batting insulation and staple/nail it in place. Older homes have balloon framing which allowed airflow from the crawlspace all the way up the wall into the attic. This allowed the mortar on the exterior and the common at the time lathe and plaster to dry. I wasn't able to visually verify but my best guess is this cavity is open to the crawlspace below and insulation blown in through the holes in the 1x8 fell down leaving the wall cavity empty for the bees.
Went into the crawlspace earlier and found some of my old toy cars from childhood. This was my favorite from my collection, a late 70's Ford Bronco (unknown co.). Had its share of offroading in the muddy backyard. The lightbar's a replacement for the original, and the plastic window's been long gone.
SOUTH LOS ANGELES - At noon on July 2, 2025, LAFD fire companies, USAR crews, and HazMat specialists responded to the 300 block of East Olympic Blvd and initiated a confined space operation to rescue a civilian trapped in a crawlspace beneath the street. Companies coordinated efforts for approximately 90 minutes to extricate the patient and then transport him to the hospital in fair condition.
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LAFD Incident: 070225-0756
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The sump pump in the background and CleanSpace all around work together to create a drier healther crawl space. This encapsulation system is worth knowing more about. Check this out: www.structuralrepaircolorado.com/crawl-space-repair/vapor...
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We have an invisible fence in our crawlspace that keeps Brady from entering the kitchen. He can, however, sit at the boundary and stare intently as his dad prepares dinner.
Note that Brady has already eaten, so he can't possibly be hungry.
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This a picutre of the water damage in a crawlspace in Nashville, TN. We did a complete remediation and crawlspace makeover.
Squirrels got into the attic crawlspace from outside. They suck. We had these folks called Bat Guys come and install a one-way exit on the hole in the roof and stick some traps on the roof. Eventually when the squirrels got tired of trying to chew their way back in, they strayed into the traps. I can't even begin to tell you how satisfying it was. They were taken away to be set loose far enough away. The younger one sitting on the cage would get caught in the next days catch.
''When people hear of Las Vegas, their minds don't automatically manifest the existence of people like me. To everyone that lives vibrantly outside of my world, outside of my invisible glass cage, lot lizards are not like them. We're not human. We don't deserve to be remembered.''
Inspired by Laura Albert (a.k.a. J.T. LeRoy)'s Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
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Production still for a short film two semesters ago, The Lost Films of Charlie Melroy for UNLV'S Spring 2016 FIS 420 - Short Film class, instructed by Prof. David Schmoeller (Crawlspace, Catacombs, Puppetmaster, Please Kill Mr. Kinski, Little Monsters, 2012) and FIS 326 - Cinematography I, instructed by professional cinematographer David Waldman. The film is made-up as a non-linear anthology. This segment is titled ''Jeremiah Falls' Vanishing Kill City.''
Model: My identical twin sister, Sarahfina Rose
Location: W Tropicana, empty lot behind MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Date: Saturday, 23 Apr. 2016
Time: Shoot - 1 hr./Post - 3 hrs.
Also uploaded to DeviantArt: jdnight.deviantart.com/art/Her-Name-Was-Jeremiah-604916371
House was built in 1870 and is one of the 1st homes built in historic Kirkwood, MO. There is no basement nor any usable living space under the house as it is now. EHM has been awarded the project and has elevated the home and now will create full 9' basement throughout footprint of home. This will add 1,400 sq. ft. of usable living space.