This old house

Part of living in a 106 year old house is that stuff sometimes needs fixin!

Seen below is what happens to an interior wall when some of the pipes in the wall on the 2nd floor are no longer joined together. This pic is from mid-project. If you want to see the finished version, you’ll have to drop in for a visit. It did allow me to refresh my plastering skills once again, so I’ll be fresh for the next upstairs bedroom project.

A second major failing is my next project. You’ll see from the fence below that the Finch nest was just too much for that cross brace and it has come undone. Those birds must be heavier than I thought! So it is now time for these last portions of the fence to become cedar like the rest. But it is worth noting that this crumbling portion of the fence was the first part that my dad and I built 23 years ago, shortly after moving here, so it didn’t do too badly.