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Date: 2006-07-14 05:37 pm (UTC)
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Is there any chance your grandmother's house can be saved, or will they have to completely tear it down? Dryrot on the dresser and gaps in the ceiling sound pretty bad. Not hopeless, however (restoring ancient rubble-heaps can be an interesting hobby - there are books written about that for people who don't mind a challenging level of mildew while they work.

That's approximately the shape Rivendell 1 is in at Ri's parent's place. The underneath of the house has been restored - it has a really nice, airy crawl space with a real floor and a waterproofing drainage system. The structure of the rest of the house is being shored up ATM. The problem is the interior. Mr. W. had filled the interior up with junk so it's hard to get around in there and do the necessary sanding, plastering, sanding, painting etc.

There's also a leaky area in one of the upstairs bedrooms where apparently squirrels have made nests, and everything smells like mildew. The plumbing froze one year and burst, and is currently in pieces under the house. So it has a ways to go... I think the electrical system might work (but maybe not. The front porch was rotted away and has to be replaced. If Mr. W. could possibly get the junk out of there (or pigs could fly), I could have the interior all nice and shiny in a couple of weeks with a little help from a repairman to escort the squirrels elsewhere and patch up the entrance where they're getting in. But that may never happen...
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