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Post by lola on Apr 28, 2009 14:44:14 GMT
Photos of abodes, please! Or drawings. If I have the nerve and can eventually figure out the technology, so can you.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 18:05:33 GMT
We've all been admiring OnlyMark's Spanish renovation thread but I have been going crazy wondering what happened to my own little report about the renovation of my apartment -- and I finally found it in the depths of another branch.
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2015 23:32:58 GMT
Kerouac, do you have a lot of furniture upstairs? If so, have you found it tricky to move large items up there?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 16:24:22 GMT
Kerouac, do you have a lot of furniture upstairs? If so, have you found it tricky to move large items up there? I had missed this question. The answer is yes. Meanwhile, I have been listening to them tear apart the small apartment next door, but I only finally got a look at what they were doing two days ago. Now I know why it sounded like they were going to tear through the wall I share with that place, even though it is more than 50cm thick (due to it actually having been a different building in past centuries). It doesn't look like they are going to finish any time soon. The heavy work so far has been to remove the old low ceiling. After sneaking my quick photos as I walked by, I encountered the workers coming up the stairs. "That's a lot of work," I said. "Yes," one of them replied in a heavy Serbian accent. "97 times on stairs to take things!" (The wall I share is behind that bookshelf in the back.) imageshack.com/a/img905/4702/kgZadP.jpgimageshack.com/a/img633/3356/UkOAas.jpgimageshack.com/a/img633/6352/eQP1Mx.jpgimageshack.com/a/img905/4997/gajDT8.jpg |
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Post by htmb on Nov 7, 2015 16:31:22 GMT
All that debris appears to remarkably old. Surprising, even though I know you've said your building was quite ancient. 18th century?
It looks like you'll be hearing workmen for awhile.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 16:34:32 GMT
That pipe running along the base of the outer wall is the drainage for my bathroom (but not toilet)!
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Post by htmb on Nov 7, 2015 16:40:38 GMT
Do you know the plans for the apartment? New owners? Apartment for rent?
Let's hope they'll protect your drain pipe during the remodeling process.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 17:03:24 GMT
No, it's the same owner. It's a young French woman now living in Peru or Chile or something. She rents the place to students every year.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 7, 2015 17:32:56 GMT
Wow -- that's a big job! If that ancient plaster on the sloping wall should fall, it could kill someone.
I'm glad you revived this thread, as I have something I want to brag about but didn't know where to put it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2015 12:32:20 GMT
Well Bixa.................We're waiting...................
With the decision now being final that our NY property will officially be put on the market to sell (a very bittersweet feeling), in January, we plan to do a massive renovation on our home here in NOLA.
It will likely entail us having to camp out somewhere else while it's being done.
Something I both dread and look forward to.
We have 3 different contractors in mind to do the work, actually 4 , I just remembered.
Gosh Kerouac, that work being done next to you must be incredibly nerve wracking and noisy!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know that I've ever seen plaster walls that thick.
And, I was overjoyed to revisit Lola's brilliant painting in this thread.
I had wondered so many times what thread it was in and could never find it. Lo and behold, it's in here (Reply #33 for those of you who have never seen our Lola's hidden talent).
I just adore that painting.
It has stayed with me all these years.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 8, 2015 12:49:23 GMT
Kerouac, One would never say your building is so old judging by the outside. I mean, no exterior uneven walls or beams exposed.( or am I about 3 centuries out) It all looks very ship-shape and modern-ish. Who would think there are those ancient old beams holding up the ceiling etc.
I know you have more photos of paintings kept for your friend, Xmas lights? Can you put those here too?
The renovations look like they need to clean up as they go...and who is sleeping on that mattress in the other room!
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 8, 2015 19:16:54 GMT
Just think of all the spiders..........
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 8, 2015 19:45:55 GMT
......... spiders dressed like >clowns<
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Post by chexbres on Nov 8, 2015 19:46:47 GMT
Well, this should convince kerouac not to do the renovation projects he's been thinking about for several years! I hope your drain pipe holds... Are you in one of the termite zones? There were loads of them this summer around my neighborhood - glad we don't have a problem...yet. Just a note on "exposed exterior beams" - these were outlawed sometime in the late 15th C, I believe - the whole facade had to be covered with plaster, to help prevent fires. There are a couple of these intact buildings still standing in the Marais - www.coolstuffinparis.com/medieval-houses-rue-francois-miron-paris.php |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2015 19:57:44 GMT
No, the termites have not reached my area yet. Kerouac, One would never say your building is so old judging by the outside. I mean, no exterior uneven walls or beams exposed.( or am I about 3 centuries out) It all looks very ship-shape and modern-ish. Who would think there are those ancient old beams holding up the ceiling etc. I know you have more photos of paintings kept for your friend, Xmas lights? Can you put those here too? The renovations look like they need to clean up as they go...and who is sleeping on that mattress in the other room! You should have seen it when the old plaster was removed from the outside walls a few years ago (well, actually about 10 years ago). They had to chip off about 20-30cm of plaster and what was underneath just looked like gravel cemented together. Actually another nearby building has just undergone the obligatory renovation, and I saw that they did the same thing there. I don't know if the flat next door will keep any beams exposed or not. My workers were planning on covering just about everything until I prevented them from doing so. As years have gone by, I am not as attached to the exposed beams as I used to be, except for the big knot over the stairs. The mattress and a number of other objects are now out on the landing of the communal stairs. |
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 8, 2016 12:45:37 GMT
Behind my humble abode they are demolishing an old hotel -   |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2016 14:19:41 GMT
It always seems a shame to tear something down instead of renovating it. Any idea of what's going to go into the cleared space?
You should go rescue that folding cot for when I come stay with the Cactuses in June. *cackle*
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 8, 2016 14:27:57 GMT
It wasn't the prettiest of buildings and it will be an old peoples home. Quite handy for me. Just need to make a hole in the wall my daughter says.
These were taken a couple of weeks ago and it has shrunk a lot since then. The guy who operates that machine fascinates me. I reckon he could pick a teaspoon off the ground with it if he had to.
Son in law has liberated a lot of floor and roof timbers for the woodburner....
And there are a Couple of lovely big terracotta pots that need a new owner.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2016 15:50:11 GMT
I live at N° 76 of my street and they are currently tearing down N° 72. There was a very nice bookstore there for 50 years, but apparently the rest of the building was a crumbling ruin, and the building in the back courtyard was even worse, so everything had to go in conformity with the municipal project of eliminating insalubrious housing. It has been mostly bricked up for the last two years, because that's how long it takes to extirpate the final residents and finally get the demolition permit. Unfortunately, the real final residents -- mice and rats -- will be hunting for a new home soon and I live too close for comfort. At the moment, the demolition team is ripping everything out in the back building, but when the front one goes down it's going to be a free-for-all.
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