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Tag Archives: masonry

Stucco Time

November 12, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

It’s time to make our two new openings presentable on the outside. To start we tacked expanded wire mesh in the areas to get stucco, for the stucco to stick […]

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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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Playing with Masonry!

April 14, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

And you thought we were done with the masonry and on to finish work! (Me too) …Yesterday, we repaired the base of the front living room window. The old rotted […]

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Framed Up!

November 24, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Now that the wall is patched and window is in it’s time to cover it up! We used 2×3’s to take minimal space from the room but it can be […]

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