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	<description>The Trials and Tribulations of a 1912 Arts and Crafts Foursquare</description>
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		<title>Where have we been?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know we&#8217;ve been incommunicado for over a year now, but it&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve been crazy busy planning for an addition to the Old Man along with a restoration of the existing part of the house (consisting mainly of fixing the plaster and stripping/refinishing the woodwork).  Well, we actually started work in the beginning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=120</link>
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		<title>Foaming at the Basement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our umpteenth winter storm this year prevented the guys from coming yesterday to finish the insulation job, so they came today.  The bulk of their time was spent prepping as they covered the basement in plastic sheeting.  They applied open cell foam in the basement which is very different from the closed cell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=119</link>
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		<title>The Sweet Sound of Insulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t blogged anything about this yet, but M. and I spent November and December gathering quotes from various insulation contractors.  The Old Man has somehow survived 96 years with pretty much zero insulation, and after our energy audit we got this fall (which we failed *miserably* I might add), we decided it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Railing pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in June of last year, I blogged about installing railingsfrom the first floor to the second, but I never posted pictures.  In keeping with my &#8220;better late than never&#8221; motto, here they are:
The lower part of the stairs, before:

and after:

The upper part, before:

and after:

Detail of the brackets (looking up):

and detail of the finish:

The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Caulkup Cockup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While it&#8217;s usually not worth it for your average homeowner to shell out the big bucks for a high-quality professional grade tool, other times it&#8217;s not worth it not to shell out for a high-quality tool.  You&#8217;ll save (or overspend) hundreds or even thousands of dollars if you can&#8217;t figure out when it&#8217;s appropriate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Do or Blog, Do or Blog&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since June, I&#8217;ve been actually doing things at the Old Man.  I&#8217;ve got pictures, and I&#8217;ve got stories squirreled away in my wee little brain, but I just haven&#8217;t had the time to commit them to electrons.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll get some time to talk about some of the fun stuff that&#8217;s been happening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Standards?  Who needs &#8216;em</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the process of putting a railing in the stairwell from the first floor to the second floor.  First step is to pop a chalk line to get the height of each of the brackets just right&#8211;no problems there.
Second step is finding studs through lath, plaster, and 1/8&#8243; oak panelling (the 40&#8217;s kind, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>The Maintenance Catches Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After living in the Old Man for over two years virtually maintenance free (quite impressive, actually), it caught up with us in December. First it was the leaky roof, which Nyberg Exteriors repaired for us.
A week later while making a trip to the basement I discovered a small puddle on the floor which turned out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
One of the nice things about having an old home is that it&#8217;s a piece of cake to make it really scary for halloween.  My decorations this year are nothing but 4 floodlights and open blinds/curtains.  Aside from a little cropping and resizing, this photo looks exactly the way that it came out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<title>Self-levelling caulk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I chipped cracked hardened tar and cracked cement off the bottom of the front steps.  Over the years, the sidewalk has sunk and separated from the front steps of the house to the tune of about three quarters of an inch.  A series of ineffective repairs have left water dripping into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=111</link>
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