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April 18, 2010by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Our house is charmingly crooked in some areas. One area being our kitchen floor towards the sink arra, which is 1″ lower than the rest of the kitchen. So that’s […]

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Finishing Up The Structural Work

April 9, 2010by madisonsquare 1 Comment

It looks fine from here but here’s the offending floor joist: Rob stands knee deep in the completed floor reframe: We sloped the transition to the living room while we […]

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Resolving More Structural Issues

April 6, 2010by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Ok back to the floor issues in our kitchen crawl space*. See where the light is? There’s supposed to be a joist there (running left to right). The one that […]

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And Done!

October 8, 2009by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Well…. the fronts are done at least.

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Stars stars stars!

October 8, 2009by madisonsquare Leave a comment

I’m about to prime some stars up in here! These are used with a big threaded rod and nut, placed through our brick wall and some of our new joists […]

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Our beam is in!

September 15, 2009by madisonsquare Leave a comment

The team got the beam in! Putting the finishing plates and screws in now. That thing isn’t going ANYWHERE!! Now we can open up between the dining and kitchen anywhere […]

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