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Consider this quote from Abe Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
How about a little update on the home remodeling project this week to give us all a break from all the political commercials? So this week everything I’ve learned while remodeling my house.
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Every time you tear into a wall there is some guy at Menard’s who smiles because he’s just made his sales quota for the week.
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No wiring project is as easy as it looks in the do-it-yourself books.
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Black wire is the hot wire. Don’t ever forget that.
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Enjoy those notes you find written on the inside of walls and be sure to leave one for the next person.
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Every part of a room is interconnected, and also insanely jealous of every other part of the room. So the minute you try to replace just one part the other parts won’t allow it. The “me too” syndrome.
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No matter how careful you are and how many times you remind yourself not to, you will hit at least one of your fingers with a hammer once a day.
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You can take three showers and never get all the plaster dust out of your hair.
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Shingles are heavy.
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If you think the pair of pliers you are sitting down on the top of a wall look like they might fall into it, chances are they will.
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Whoever used 18 penny nails to hang sheetrock on my kitchen ceiling should be responsible for coming and pulling them out.
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Rough cut lumber knows no dimension.
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Everything in an old house probably will be out of plumb but caulking fixes everything.
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Before we had fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants plumbers, there were no such things as screw apart piping.
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WD-40 can and will remove years of old tar from a long forgotten Pioneer seed sign used to patch a hole in the roof. As long as you buy it by the gallon.
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Finally, that no matter what it looks like when you get it finished, you can have the satisfaction of knowing you did it yourself. In the end, my friends, that is really what it’s all about.
See you next week…remember, we’re all in this together.