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Haha, this looks familiar. Our 1920s balloon-construction house w/ brick exterior has some bulging/lean going on, but the structural engineer who looked at it prior to us purchasing it said it'll survive a 30 year mortgage (not that we're staying that long). Ours has an iron railing too; I personally think they look good with the brick. Just be happy your interior isn't hundred-year-old plaster (I know plaster is so cool and old and a lost art and all the other things people that don't have to deal with it say, but gently caress this poo poo; sometimes you want to be able to cut a hole for an outlet or fish some wire without it turning into an ordeal). If there's one thing looking at this and my neighbor's house's really messy "fix it quick" joints is telling me, it's that I should continue practicing sticking two bricks together and jointing them until I can do it without making it look like that. I don't know if this is your first house, but from checking out friends' first houses closely, it seems to be that there's some mickey mouse bullshit in every house (some more than others....kastein).
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From what I've read, Defiant is a Kwikset re-brand exclusively carried at Home Depot, and apparently both Kwikset and Defiant are total garbage. I'm actually looking for a quality dead-bolt and latch combo myself so I'm interested in suggestions on that front as well.
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Oct 19, 2014 04:40
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Is that rotted joist sistered up to a good one or is the picture throwing me off?
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Oct 23, 2014 23:24
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Wow. So what's the plan? Jack it up and sister with a legit joist?
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Oct 23, 2014 23:51
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That enormous notch in that joist for the foundation vent is nuts, but I don't know what the standard "approved" fix would be. Possibly just a fresh full length joist far enough in to allow the foundation vent to still do its job?
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Oct 27, 2014 02:32
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Did you use the tool to smooth those joints or a piece of copper or something? They look good.
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Nov 29, 2014 06:38
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Wow, you in sales or something? That's a ton of travel.
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Jan 11, 2015 20:40
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oh hai denny Nice, it's always good to come home and find the place in the same condition you left it. I came home from work last week and one of the supply lines on my washer had frozen and sprung a leak (just walked in the door and heard *pssshhhhhhh*). What's lucky/dumb is that the washer/dryer are in this crappy, un-insulated, not-at-all-to-code add-on on the back of the house, so while it's good the actual house was never in danger of having any kind of serious water damage, it wouldn't have happened in the first place if it wasn't in a crappy un-insulated add-on. One of my uncles runs a fire and water damage remediation company and has said that people could avoid so much trouble/expense if they just got in the habit of turning off their main water supply line before going away on vacation/an extended amount of time. Not bad advice I think if you don't have pets/someone house-sitting.
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drat man, nice job on the repoint though.
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Apr 11, 2015 21:34
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