[Shop-talk] Gutting a cottage and suffering from shipwright's disease / scope creep

[David C.]

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