This house however was pretty much trashed. It was really beautiful in
its day but had been turned into a ruin almost by a succession of
owners who simply did not give a damn. The people who hired up really
wanted to restore the place, but it was almost impossible at that
point. They were able to preserve the outside and the floors, but the
rest was horrible.
After they were done, the place looked amazing.
larry
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:39:14 -0400, Jerry Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sacrilege! Plaster and lathe ROCKS!
>
> But I wouldn't run any current through those old wires. I have a hard time believing people still use wires that aren't properly grounded, let alone run anything where water is an issue without GFI.
>
> The hardest thing I had to do lately was sawzall through a 2-inch thick mahogany floor for heating registers. It hurt my soul.
>
> Jerry Johnson
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/30/04 11:27AM >>>
> I hated working with that sort of wiring. In one place, a house about
> 100 years old or so, it had the very old style of wiring - 3 separate
> bare wires on the knob and tubes.These wires were set directly into
> the plaster - the place was all ancient lathe and plaster - harder
> than stone at that point. The owners finally decided it would be
> cheaper to gut the place entirely and put in all new wiring etc.
>
> larry
>
>
>
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