1892 Monarch Fireplace Insert
- Pauliewog
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Like I mentioned above, it's been a real pain putting window ac units in and taking them out every spring and fall.
This year a friend offered to help me so we decided to put central air in. Unfortunately he got really busy at work and his wife had some medical issues so............spring passed by, we got into summer, and you guessed it.......... Other than my son and son-in-law helping me hoist the air handler up into the attic...... it was just me battling the attic heat installing it myself. The only thing left is to run the line set and charge it.
Paulie
This year a friend offered to help me so we decided to put central air in. Unfortunately he got really busy at work and his wife had some medical issues so............spring passed by, we got into summer, and you guessed it.......... Other than my son and son-in-law helping me hoist the air handler up into the attic...... it was just me battling the attic heat installing it myself. The only thing left is to run the line set and charge it.
Paulie
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I wish I waited another year to retire ....... I'm exhausted
The shop move was the biggest project..... I'm glad this year is almost over.
TOTP You really have to share with us how you do it.
Paulie
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Pauliewog, anybody can throw stones against a muddy wall & have them look all helter skelter..... just try laying them all horizontal & have it look like you knew what you were doing .
Can't say that i can remember ever seeing stones laid that way....
Awesome look
Can't say that i can remember ever seeing stones laid that way....
Awesome look
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Hey Paulie, I'll bet you lost some weight this summer working up in the attic. I'm sure you had your reasons for not waiting till fall.
Now that you've got "central air", in the summer, you can just sit inside...and read a book or something.
(yeah, I'm sure that's gunna happen)
Now that you've got "central air", in the summer, you can just sit inside...and read a book or something.
(yeah, I'm sure that's gunna happen)
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Extra hands are a text away. Just need food then drink or trade.
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Love the sun room/greenhouse...right down my alley. Nothing like home grown maters in the thick of winter. I'd love for you to elaborate on your stone laying excursions and your mentor. That's a trade I always wanted to learn. Heck, my bad shoulders I can't even plaster anymore.
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Finally had some time to get back on the greenhouse project. I got most of the straight glass in and sealed but I have to figure out what to do with the curved glass panels that are clouded up.
Problem is finding out what type of compound I can use to grind and polish the white haze off the inside. Any glass experts here?
Dug a polypropylene tank out of the trailer for the fish, and hope to find a place it can be partially buried, yet connected to my rain barrel and catch the drains from all of the PVC grow pipes and towers.
Paulie
The glass is double pane tempered float glass. The seals are broken and moisture reacted with the aluminium spacer and is etched onto the tin side of the glass.
My plan was to take them apart, install a super spacer , vacuum them, and refill them with gas.Problem is finding out what type of compound I can use to grind and polish the white haze off the inside. Any glass experts here?
Dug a polypropylene tank out of the trailer for the fish, and hope to find a place it can be partially buried, yet connected to my rain barrel and catch the drains from all of the PVC grow pipes and towers.
Paulie
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Thanks David, I don't know how I missed all of these replies. but better late than never.windyhill4.2 wrote: ↑Sat. Dec. 30, 2017 7:11 pmPauliewog, anybody can throw stones against a muddy wall & have them look all helter skelter..... just try laying them all horizontal & have it look like you knew what you were doing .
Can't say that i can remember ever seeing stones laid that way....
Awesome look
When I was building the house I became really good friends with an old Italian stone mason and on the weekends I would labor for him just to learn and pick up some tips.
My neck is still sore from the number of times he slapped me in the back of the head when I showed him pictures of my progress when first laying the stone. He would look at the picture, give me a backhand and say..... Iffa ya wanna lay brick ya lay brick.....Ya don't lay stone like ya lay a brick...... The stone goes lika dis next one lika that.
Sooo.....I would go home tear them back down and start propping them up at angles, and sometimes spending a half hour on one stone chiseling it to match up with the contour of the previous one. But I was young and learned the hard way.
By the way....My offer still stands if you want that chimney.
Paulie
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Yes I did Joe but I gained it all back this winter.joeq wrote: ↑Sat. Dec. 30, 2017 7:14 pmHey Paulie, I'll bet you lost some weight this summer working up in the attic. I'm sure you had your reasons for not waiting till fall.
Now that you've got "central air", in the summer, you can just sit inside...and read a book or something.
(yeah, I'm sure that's gunna happen)
Hopefully, I'll get to enjoy the AC next summer, cause from the looks of it this summer is still full of unfinished projects.
Paulie
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Your green house is coming along nicely Paulie. As for your hazel glass, I can relate. Mine isn't glass, but plastic, and is probably much worse than yours. What do you think of the compound in the new car headlight glass cleaners, that get fogged? I know it's expensive bought in the small containers. Not sure if I have any in my garage, but next time I'm in the stores, I'll have-ta check out the ingredients. Or maybe it can be found on the mystical magical web.
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Oh yeah Bill, the greenhouse was on my project list 40 + years ago.Hoytman wrote: ↑Tue. Jan. 23, 2018 4:58 pmLove the sun room/greenhouse...right down my alley. Nothing like home grown maters in the thick of winter. I'd love for you to elaborate on your stone laying excursions and your mentor. That's a trade I always wanted to learn. Heck, my bad shoulders I can't even plaster anymore.
The stone took me about 6 years to complete doing it after work and on weekends. In the winter I would tarp sections up, mix a batch of mud down the basement, and lug it upstairs. The stone itself came from Georgia and is called Pinole or Georgia pine log. It ranges in thickness from 1" to 8" so there is a lot of splitting, and chiseling involved.
The mix was a bag of portland, half bag of lime and 22 shovels of sand.
Some of the stones weighed 50 lbs or more so you had to nail a 2×4 to the wall at an angle to rest it on, and a small block in the joint and mortar around it. When it set up you removed the spacer and filled the gap. I covered the wall with roofing felt, and nailed on stucco wire and brick ties.
I picked up about a half ton of Georgia Pine Log on our last trip to Flordia to install a raised hearth on the family room fireplace when time permits.
I will post progress pictures on that project when I get started on it.
Believe me...... The stone work is a lot easier on the back and shoulders than slinging plaster.
Paulie
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Thanks Joe! I don't have a clue if the headlight polish wold work but you can be sure I'll give it a try.joeq wrote: ↑Tue. May. 15, 2018 4:05 pmYour green house is coming along nicely Paulie. As for your hazel glass, I can relate. Mine ien't glass, but plastic, and is probably much worse than yours. What do you think of the compound in the new car headlight glass cleaners, that get fogged? I know it's expensive bought in the small containers. Not sure if I have any in my garage, but next time I'm in the stores, I'll have-ta check out the ingredients. Or maybe it can be found on the mystical magical web.
For this season I think I'll cut them apart and install just the outside glass. That way I can grind, polish and try everything known to man to get it off before sealing them up.
I'm not concerned with the heat loss with the single pane .......... Cause we heat with Coal !
The curved replacement panels are $2,000 EACH from Four Seasons so you know that's not an option.
I drove down to Philadelphia last week to look at some curved glass panels but of course none of them were the correct radius.
I have alerts on craigslist and Facebook Marketplace but every manufacturer makes them a different size or radius. So the search continues.
They are tinted bronze, so that's another problem I have to deal with.
Paulie
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I know I posted pictures of the man cave floor on one of my other threads but most of the progress pictures are on this one so I'll add one here.
I still have to build some cabinets in the kitchen area, hook up the sink and put in the range but otherwise it's almost finished and we spent a lot of time enjoying it this past winter.
Paulie
I still have to build some cabinets in the kitchen area, hook up the sink and put in the range but otherwise it's almost finished and we spent a lot of time enjoying it this past winter.
Paulie