On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Peter Hiscocks via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > I did a major reno on my house a few years ago. The deal with my wife was > that I could buy any power tools that I needed, and I now have a nice > collection. > > This was the front of the house including a large livingroom, hall, > stairway and front door area. Complete demolition, rewiring, new windows, > new fireplace, two sets of new stairs. > > I did everything except the drywall (hard work and tricky) and the painting. > We purchased the stair unit. I didn't know how to do trimwork but studied > the youtube videos and bought some books on it. The result was very > attractive, but it does require the proper tools and knowledge.
I have found that the public library often has a huge selection of diy books. Some are useful - - - - some are NOT. It doesn't hurt of have someone that you know that has some knowledge function as at least somewhat of an advisor! > > I quite enjoyed it. It took 13 months, including time off for a stupidly > self-inflicted injury. But I'm retired, it would take a lot longer if you > were working and could only do evenings and weekends. They call the > drywall dust 'divorce dust' for a reason. > Pity - - - I could have given you some tips on how to severely reduce said stuff. Learnt helping a few buds doing their renos and partially from a 'plasterer' ticketed father. There are some tricks to reducing the amount of dust generated! Oh yes - - - tools are wonderful things!! Regards Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
