Sometimes I understand why some species eat their young

[Kit-Ginevra]

We got all but one patched. Mr Mathnerd doesn't know how to fix walls and he's out of town so he asked me to wait till he gets back to teach him how to do it. So I left the one that's behind the headboard. He can help me move the bed.

...seems fair,since I think both of you would be responsible for creating that particular one

[mathnerd]

...seems fair,since I think both of you would be responsible for creating that particular one

Not quite. These are in my oldest son's room. He made them by punching the walls. This was apparently during the time he was under house arrest, which was a very, very bad time for him. He didn't cope with the social isolation very well at all. At the time, he had a different bed and that chunk of wall wasn't covered up. When we got him a new bed we discovered the holes that had been covered up with posters as we were rearranging things to make space for the new bed (it's a king, where the old bed is a twin).

So, while Mr. Mathnerd is pretty handy around the house, carpentry is something he's just never done. He's great with plumbing and electric, but not walls or anything carpentry related. This explains a lot about the state of un-done repairs around the house, actually. He's avoided certain things because he simply doesn't know how to do them. Now that I'm around, these things are slowly getting done. My task list is pretty long. I have to rip out half the first floor bathroom because of water damage. I actually think that some of those walls are mold-resistant sheetrock. That will be even easier if that's the case. The leak that caused the water damage is actually from the third floor bathroom (tri-level split, so the first and third floors are directly on top of each other, but each of the three floors are full sized floors). While I have that ripped apart, either he or I can go in and repair the plumbing in the third floor bathroom, as access to that is kind of a pain. The shower plumbing is in an exterior wall, so we either have to access it from below or rip out the tile in that shower. Cutting into an outside wall isn't really an option. I don't really want to rip out the tile, because I don't want to put in new tile knowing that the floor below the tub is damaged. It's not damaged enough that it can't be lived with for a few more years, but it will eventually need to be completely ripped out, and I'm not in a position to do a full bathroom remodel right now. I also need to drain, sand blast and resurface the pool. Again this is something I know how to do and have done many times in the past, thanks to my parents' house rental business, but he hasn't the foggiest idea what to do. Then we need to rip out the deck behind the pool and around the hot tub and replace it. We've drained the hot tub because the deck is to rotted to be safe. It's also possible that critters have gotten to the plumbing, so we have to check that out. Then we have two large picture windows that need to be fixed. The huge one in the living room is a matter of fixing the frame. The rollers have flattened out and the frame is pulling apart a little bit. The smaller picture window in the rec room has a crack in the non-movable pane. There's a ton of other smaller stuff that needs to be done as well, but that's how it goes with older houses. This one is a little over 50 years old and shows its age.

[Sliceanddice]

Huh I hate plaster so I would have taken the opportunity to build in the wall stub debts shelves

[pudddykat]

The older of my two younger brothers was the kind that liked to take things apart to put them together again. He also had the habit of being a fidgeter his toes could be destructive lol. He couldn't have been much more that two when dad (who owns a construction company) put in a garage door. He watched the how to video with dad and then when dad was installing it the kid kept putting a plank of wood under the door. Dad finally realized he actually understood the video and the wood was for testing the response to a foreign object/person (goes back up so as not to smother the human).

The other brother lived in my grandparents house (they had passed away and the house is connected to the office of the construction company). He was moving something around in the back room and managed to put a hole in the wall with his ass. He was all "I'll fix it." feeling a bit bad. My aunt just laughed her own ass off and said like father like son. Yes dad's young ass put a hole in a wall in that same room. lol

[mjr]

My parents were strict in that they would've reamed us a new one if we made holes in the walls, even little ones made by pushpins for posters. Though my sis did once punch a hole in the wall as a teen when she was angry, IDK how she survived. Firstborns are always the favorites, I guess! :\

My mother was one of seven siblings, in a family of nine.

Well, to hear her tell it, all five sisters shared a room, and the brothers shared another in a 3BR house. I think that was the arrangement.

Well, one day, I guess the sisters were horsing around or whatever and one of them put their ass through the wall... or at least the sheet rock on one side...

[mathnerd]

Whelp, the bathroom project just got 1000 times more fun. Guess what the bathroom walls are made out of? Stucco covered drywall!

I thought that shit went out of fashion with the cavemen.

[Racket_Man]

Whelp, the bathroom project just got 1000 times more fun. Guess what the bathroom walls are made out of? Stucco covered drywall!

I thought that shit went out of fashion with the cavemen.

Most of my house is textured plastered 5/8 or 3/4 drywall that has been painted numerous times in 75 years (that is how old the house is). I can not just repair a hole in the wall (well I could but it would look waaaay out of place and stick out like a sore thumb).

Now deceased GF and I were planning on gutting one room at a time down to the studs, putting up insulation and re dry walling the place.

In the future it will happen sometime if things go the way I hope they go.

[mathnerd]

Most of my house is textured plastered 5/8 or 3/4 drywall that has been painted numerous times in 75 years (that is how old the house is). I can not just repair a hole in the wall (well I could but it would look waaaay out of place and stick out like a sore thumb).

Now deceased GF and I were planning on gutting one room at a time down to the studs, putting up insulation and re dry walling the place.

In the future it will happen sometime if things go the way I hope they go.

I think you're on to something there. I'm waiting for Mr Mathnerd to come home so we can discuss what to next. The plan had been to replace just the portion of the walls that are water damaged, take down the wallpaper on the rest, and paint, but now I'm thinking it might be better to rip it down to the studs and redo the whole thing. The ceiling appears fine, so it's just the walls.

[Deserted]

Most of my house is textured plastered 5/8 or 3/4 drywall that has been painted numerous times in 75 years (that is how old the house is). I can not just repair a hole in the wall (well I could but it would look waaaay out of place and stick out like a sore thumb).

Now deceased GF and I were planning on gutting one room at a time down to the studs, putting up insulation and re dry walling the place.

In the future it will happen sometime if things go the way I hope they go.

Be careful with that. Some time back, I did something along those lines... only to find that the house already had insulation... asbestos. Lots of it.

[mathnerd]

Be careful with that. Some time back, I did something along those lines... only to find that the house already had insulation... asbestos. Lots of it.

And that's the one big concern doing any demolition work on this house. It was built in the 1960's so things like the popcorn ceiling, insulation and wallpaper adhesive are potentially asbestos. I'm not as concerned with the interior walls, but getting into any of the exterior walls concerns me. The popcorn ceilings in every room but the bathrooms and kitchen are almost certainly asbestos, so I don't want to touch those unless I absolutely have to.

[greek_jester]

And that's the one big concern doing any demolition work on this house. It was built in the 1960's so things like the popcorn ceiling, insulation and wallpaper adhesive are potentially asbestos. I'm not as concerned with the interior walls, but getting into any of the exterior walls concerns me. The popcorn ceilings in every room but the bathrooms and kitchen are almost certainly asbestos, so I don't want to touch those unless I absolutely have to.

Seriously, for your own safety, if you're pretty sure it's asbestos get a professional who's rated for dealing with asbestos to do it. It'll be a hell of a lot cheaper than medical bills if you make a mistake.

[mathnerd]

Seriously, for your own safety, if you're pretty sure it's asbestos get a professional who's rated for dealing with asbestos to do it. It'll be a hell of a lot cheaper than medical bills if you make a mistake.

I'm not getting anywhere near the ceilings or exterior walls for now. :-)

[Aragarthiel]

Our toddler discovered a hole in our drywall last year that somebody had "repaired" at some point. The paint was chipping a bit, she pulled at it, and a sheet of construction paper covered with several pieces of packing tape and a few layers of paint came away from the wall.

We fixed it properly ourselves.

[Racket_Man]

Be careful with that. Some time back, I did something along those lines... only to find that the house already had insulation... asbestos. Lots of it.

Yeah that is/was my/our BIG concern. The only reason I suspect that there is little or NO insulation inside the exterior walls is

First because so much cold can be felt on an inside of an exterior wall during the winter.

Second there is a hole (not sure why or when it was done) in the inside wall of an exterior wall in the bedroom and there seems to be NOTHING in between the drywall and the exterior framing.

MY other two concerns are that the heating vent run from the basement to the 2d floor is wrapped in asbestos ( my sister had this situation on her old house) AND ALL OF THE LEAD PAINT that is covering the interior walls (I count at least 7 or 8 layers). IF I gut even one room at a time I know I will have to deal with lots of lead paint and the proper disposal of said paint and drywall.