Apparently, it’s easier to move an interior wall constructed with studs and sheetrock than it is to move an exterior metal door set in a supporting wall built of cinderblock, or so my husband tells me. With no reason to not believe him, I’m eager to see the project underway…curious to see how easy moving a wall really is. At that [...]
Soon after starting their newly married life, John and Mary Randelman (a fictional couple) move out of their tiny apartment and purchase their first real home, near Bethesda, Maryland. The house looks nice from the outside with weatherproof siding added just a few years ago and a newly shingled roof. A spacious porch stretching across [...]
One thing that seems to surprise most first-time fixers of fixer-uppers is the matter of time. No matter how many times they’re warned, by however many people, their houses always seem to take most of them a whole lot longer than they expect, especially if they’re doing the majority (or the entirety, for that matter) [...]
