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Sarah,  that house as is looks like it should be the subject of a watercolor.  It seems to lend itself to a treatment of arrested decay.

 

OTOH, it would be absolutely charming with a crisp new paint job. 

 

You can't lose regardless of what you do!
 
Sara, your house is even more charming from the outside.

A new metal roof. New cedar trim and vinyl siding of the same dimension. New low maintenance windows.

You know you can insulate and do the wiring for the outside wall from the outside. This way you don't have to take the walls apart on the inside, where, I'm guessing it is just as charming and detail filled.
 
What a spectacular house

Alabama is a long way away from me, but I would love to take a trip down in the spring if you will be working on it then. I am quite handy...the only things I won't do is old cast-iron plumbing and old wiring (I will work just fine on the new stuff). I also won't crawl under a house. But besides that, I love finish work. I have gutted (down to the studs) and completely re-done several rooms in my house. When I re-did my sunroom that also involved removing and replacing all the exterior siding (I went back with hardi-plank - but in your case we would need to find some wood to make everything match).

Here in Durham I am getting ready to start on the bedroom end of the house (complete gut of the entire west end down to the studs) and the basement (for my 25 dishwashers).

Seriously, If you want to have a fix in, and it will be in the spring, I am up for it. Love meeting people on the site (and restoring old houses).
 
BTW - a note about insulation

There was a statement earlier in the thread about applying insulation from the exterior of the house. While some insulation is better than none, be aware of two things (should you go that route)

1) If you go with blown in cellulose insulation, it compacts over time and starts to lose insulation value.
2) If you go with foam, the expansion/drying/curing process can move electrical wires and result in a fire.

If you are like me, you probably love plaster walls. The plaster in my house is in beautiful shape (except for one of the bedroom ceilings). I was so sad when I tore it out of the rooms that I re-did because I knew I wasn't going back with it. However, after I sheet-rocked, I did an entire skim coat of mud to make everything as smooth as plaster and I have to say that once I was done I really didn't miss it. Taking things down to the studs room by room gave me the opportunity to upgrade my wiring and put it all in conduit so I wouldn't have to worry about the spray foam insulation when I put it in.

Ok.....probably more information than you really wanted to know. I just think that house is spectacular. Glad you are going to restore it.
 
Oooh, la-la

Williams637,

You are on! I'm serious, I'll welcome you and everyone else who wants to come. It's rustic, and we only have 2 ovens and an apartments sized stack washer/dryer. But I've got roaster ovens, electric skillets...etc. and the brand spanking new wiring to support it.

The main floor of the house was sheetrock, and it is already down to the studs everywhere except for the kitchen which has knotty pine paneling. I'm thinking traditional insulation batting with a layer of Tyvek housewrap over it before we hang the sheetrock. The upstairs has a good many accessible crawl spaces so adding insulation should not be too hard.

The house slated for deconstruction will be a donor house for the big house. It has narrower Dutch cove siding than the big house although there are areas on the big house that have been patched with the narrow siding already. I'm thinking I might want to side the bottom quarter of the big house with the narrow siding so that the change in width looks intentional. I'm not sure. The first picture that I posted in this thread is the donor house, the second is the big house.

I have also started a thread titled Sarah's Old House. Durham is about a nine hour drive from us. See you in the spring.

Sarah
 
Excellent!

Definitely count me in. After 2014 rolls in you and I can start planning what weekend will work best.

In my house I have done both types of insulation, which I have installed myself. Foam insulation is more expensive, and a complete pain in the ass to "shave down the excess", but I can tell a difference in the one room that has it. I definitely recommend it. I did full foam insulation, but they also have an installation where you do about 1" of foam, and the rest with fiberglass. Since you are in the South as well, you know all about our humidity. The foam is a great thing for this since I assume you are going to condition your house. It seals the cracks to stop air infiltration (which is actually your biggest thermal loss), and since it does so with insulating properties, you don't get condensate build up in your walls.

Knotty pine paneling is great. My office had original knotty pine paneling. My intent was to save it and put it back up when I re-did the room. Unfortunately even being careful removing it I split too many of the tongues so I didn't have enough left to put back up. Habitat for Humanity was certainly glad of the donation though. Somebody somewhere now has enough to do a small room and make it look nice.

Look forward to meeting you next year.
 
Really, you'll come?

Let's have a party. It would be so very cool to meet you, and I hope some of the other folks can come too.

I'm sort of speechless--happy speechless that is.

Sarah
 
I'm real good at sanding hard wood floors. I did the floors in four different homes I lived in and numerous others for friends and family. They'd rent the equipment,buy the supplies and I'd do the labor.I love the before and after shots.
 
Themed Wash-In

That certainly sounds like fun. How about the theme be more along the lines of "I wore all white-clothing to a party last night and spilt everything on me. Which washer and which detergent will work best?" (Certainly NOT the PlanetArk stuff I was rattling on about in my thread here in Super). 

 

I also like the idea of a Dish-In. I think to make it effective with 27 full-size (or thereabouts) machines, you'd need around 324 items minimum... So that probably equates more around 1000 dishes - and with a group of 50 people, each person would basically have to bring a dinner set for 20 each (and they'd all have to be dirty). Can you imagine being pulled over by the Police, "Yes Officer, I was just taking these to my friends house because he has 27 dishwashers he wants to test. There's another 49 of us headed there too. Do us a favour and don't tell the EPA, all-right?"

Or would it be more like this?

{Slowly waves hand about}"These are not the dirty plates you are looking for. That'll be all... Move along!"

{Officer}"Those aren't the dirty dishes we are looking for. That'll be all sir... Move along please!"
 

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