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Monthly Archives: August 2013

Bright White

August 10, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Second coat of paint in shop… Check All done with painting for now. It’s time to pick up all the drop clothes, take down the plastic, and start putting things […]

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Holding Your Breath

August 9, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

To get ready to paint the shop side of the basement, I had to put on hat & safety glasses, and hold my breath while scraping the old beams and […]

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Pegged

August 6, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

As part of the shop project we wanted to clean up the front wall of the basement and give ourselves more peg board to get organized! Always a lofty goal. […]

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CONTINUING THE ‘FINE TUNING’ OF OUR HEATING SYSTEM – PART II

August 5, 2013by madisonsquare 2 Comments

So time to get this project done! After piecing everything back together and test fitting, it’s time to solder. With the large 1″ pipe size I have been using MAPP […]

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Continuing the ‘Fine Tuning’ of Our Heating System – Part I

August 3, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

During our first 6 months of whirl wind renovations we just got things DONE! (So we could actually inhabit our new house : ) ) But now 4 years later […]

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