[Shop-talk] Gutting a cottage and suffering from shipwright's disease / scope creep
David C.
cavanadd at frontier.com
Fri Aug 12 21:48:20 MDT 2011
As far as I'm concerned, HVLP guns are for furniture. If you have to
paint a house or walls, rent an airless, or an old school pressure pot
system.
The house sounds like enough work. I would bulldoze the cottage; it
sounds like a money pit and a health hazard. If you do work in it and
the rodent crap is anywhere near what you described, I would strongly
recommend wearing a real honest to goodness respirator (NOT a dust mask)
and a tyvek suit while I did all the demo and clean up. Seriously, that
thing sounds like bad news and you're never going to get all the stink
out of it. Torch it.
Aric wrote:
> we just
> bought a property that needs an obscene amount of work (which explains why
> we got it so cheap) and I'll be spending the next year rehabbing it. The
> main house is ~2300sq-ft and was built in 1825 (and was the original
> schoolhouse for the area). There's also a cottage on the property that's
> roughly 800sq-ft that was built in the I
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