I don't post here much

[madokie]

but as far as having something in common I'd say for me it would be this group.
Let me tell you what we've done house wise. Several years ago we bought our house and property at a sheriffs auction. It adjoins our property that we used to live on in a trailer before we decided we wanted a house. During that planning stage this place came up for sale so we purchased it. I'm handy with tools and have the patience of job and take great pride in what I do. I might spend a whole day or days doing something that when I get through it doesn't look quiet right or something about it we don't really like so I just take it back apart and make the changes it takes. most times but no all I can reuse the same material as this will happen when its all new construction, not years later as that would be a different animal altogether. I stripped the inside of the house to the bare outside walls, sub floor and roof decking, removed all the electric and removed all the plumbing and removed many and relocated all left remaining interior walls, built new oak cabinets the whole works. New mostly wood floors except one in the living room and for some reason I put ceramic tile. A new house built inside an older house if you will. Anyways this past summer I took the vinyl siding off and installed new low e dual pane vinyl windows then put house wrap on the walls then glued the house wrap to the flange of the window so that no drafts are coming in around the windows. Removing the siding was easy as it's taken off exactly opposite as its installed so its just a matter of getting the right tools and pull the nails. mark pieces and label things as you need so you can easily put it back on for instance. So far this winter you would have thought we put more insulation in the walls and ceiling because of the new windows and house wrap. I already have each of our inside walls sealed off to where nothing is coming in or out, spiders or mostly wind, air. Air comes in when we come though the door during the winter but we do a lot of in and out so it never gets stale in here. I had a house painter show me the finer points of painting a house years ago so I practice that even though its cost a tad more and take a tad more effort but the payoff is huge in comparisons. Nothing like a draft free house. We heat with wood pellets, Harman Advance is what we have and I bring the air for the combustion in from outside so the stove takes no air out of the house it recirculates the air from outside in the intake and outside as exhaust. Likewise the air in here is recirculated through the stove where it picks up heat but pretty much kept in the house except when we open a door for whatever reason. Opening a door for only a few seconds makes a big change is the air inside especially when its cold out. The warm air rushes out the top of the door with cold air rushing in to take its place.
Enough for now as I'm off to the shop as I'm almost finished with building from scratch a front end loader for my friends kubota tractor and I'm going to work on it today. I'm pretty much finished I just need to do the tidying up things now.

[Dover]

1. Welcome! This forum does seem right up your alley.

:hi: Actually you sound way too busy to be posting online...lol! A very handy guy. I wish you were my neighbor.

This is a pretty slow moving forum and I don't post that much either. But it's full of really great info and lots of
pictures of people's awesome projects. So I'm sure others would be very interested in learning about some of your projects too.

A small request - I would find your post (above) easier to read if you broke it up into shorter paragraphs. I don't know
why that is, but it is off-putting for some reason to be faced with wading into such a lengthy, uninterupted text.

Will be looking for your posts in the future.