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Tag Archives: demo

Making Holes in Our House

November 11, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Time to make a hole in the exterior wall for our kitchen exhaust! To get started we drilled holes through the two wythes of brick. This helped to take the […]

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Cleaning & Prepping the Basement

November 9, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

When we cleaned out our former wood shop that was in the Dining Room (for the final L&I inspection), everything got shoved into the basement and it is still a […]

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Reopening the Past

November 5, 2012by madisonsquare 3 Comments

Like so many of the windows in our house when we bought it, the alley side basement windows were both covered over. So this weekend we tackled the shop side […]

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Restoring the Old Trim…

March 28, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

We must go backwards to go forward… So tonight I removed the old trim in the living room to get ready for the new oak trim. At some point the […]

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Mantle Prep Wrap Up

June 20, 2011by madisonsquare 1 Comment

Tonight we cleaned up the mess at the fireplace, and filled the slight gap btw the old plaster wall and masonry firebox with mortar… If we install a gas insert […]

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Fireplace Mantel – Demo!

June 19, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

There’s a few projects left on our stone installers agenda… And since they’re coming on Tuesday it’s definitely time to prep! One of the projects is a new travertine mantel […]

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