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Got an old picture of my house
Yesterday afternoon, I lent a neighbor my pressure washer. As I was standing on the sidewalk explaining to him how it works, a nicely dressed elderly couple stopped their car and were staring at my next door neighbor’s house. He rolled down his window and said, “that was my grandparents’ house in the 1930s”.
To make a long story short, he sent me a photo his father had taken of my house in the mid 1930s, with what looks to be the owner climbing the stairs after parking his Model A(?) in the driveway.
The “long” story is here:
http://www.brooklynrowhouse.com/old_photos
09/21/2008 11:03 PM
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Bathroom roof vent for a flat roof
I’ve had a chronic problem with a leaking bathroom vent during storms (like this one). I thought I fixed it last month when I found some exposed flashing around the vent on the roof. Apparently not. I think now that the vent shroud was intended for a pitched, not flat roof. It appears that this vent was intended to have its opening pointing “downhill”, which of course it can’t with a flat roof.
What kind of vent should I have? Is there a name for it?
09/06/2008 9:18 PM
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Bay Ridge
FWIW, Bay Ridge doesn’t get much coverage here. I did a series of blog articles about Bay Ridge and Sunset Park over the past week — some history, some grand schemes for the area.
The idea started as a “Meet The Neighbors” series on Old House Web but I thought some locals here might find it interesting.
http://www.brooklynrowhouse.com/
08/31/2008 2:09 PM
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Opinions please
Last year I renovated my master bedroom. I went maybe a bit overboard with the red oak but overall I’m satisfied with it. One of the things I constructed was a large, built-in bureau which, again, I might have gone a bit overboard on with the carvings.
My next taks here is to finish off the house with five years’ worth of backburnered stained glass projects, one of which is the panels to the bureau’s doors.
I’ve got two options and I’m undecided which will work better. The first is a simple but classic crosshatched diamond pattern using translucent art glass. This wouldn’t compete with the carvings.
The other is a pattern I designed with GlassEye today. I like it by itself but I’m concerned that it might be too busy for this cabinet.
I can only post one image here so you can see the pattern on http://www.brooklynrowhouse.com/node/117
08/09/2008 9:52 PM
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So when does the hurricane get here?
Yesterday, I got a letter from my home insurer, USAA, that it was increasing my hurricane damage deductible from $1000 to $8600. This falls in the wake of companies like Allstate actually canceling the insurance policies of many homeowners in the NYC area — I believe, anyone within one mile of the shore line.
Anyone else seeing this with their insurers?
07/11/2008 11:10 AM
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Cool high-res shots of Brooklyn bridges
The pics are too large to post here but the detail is amazing.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/3893?size=_original
07/08/2008 1:01 PM
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466 dad
May 21, 2012 | 02:16 PM