Creepy Crawls in the Walls
Anyone out there that has ever done a restoration/reno this is a questions for you! I noticed that on the This Old House Broolyn editions when they were taking down walls, picking up floor boards there were no sign of either rodents or insects. Was this stuff cleaned up before it went on camera? What’s…
Anyone out there that has ever done a restoration/reno this is a questions for you! I noticed that on the This Old House Broolyn editions when they were taking down walls, picking up floor boards there were no sign of either rodents or insects. Was this stuff cleaned up before it went on camera? What’s in the walls/floors of a 100-year-old house?
(and that’s the post-critter remains of the walnuts, not animal carcasses!)
When my family gut renovated our 1850s house, there were two weird things. First was critter related — TONS AND TONS of walnuts, or the post-critter remains. Second was just fun — in a spot where a bathroom used to be, the wall was FULL of used razor blades… from one of those razor slots that used to be part of vanities.
Our barn was full of really cool treasures too, but you didn’t need to rip out walls to find them. The house was in the town village, so the barn was a blacksmith shop, a tinsmith, a plumber, and a few other things over the century and a half.
I found a dead bird underneath a bathtub that was removed.
Neat, Joe, a time capsule!Posted by: Arkady at October 27, 2009 3:14 PM
I remember my dad said that Mussolini was on the cover…
My parents still have the milk bottle on their nick-knack shelf.
Neat, Joe, a time capsule!
Actually when my parents bought their 1930’s Tudor during the early 70’s and were ripping out the original porcelain tub (big mistake!)they found a glass milk bottle w/ a 1930’s Italian newspaper inside.
Mice, no. Ancient pussy? You betcha.
We found a pile of Tijuana Bibles and some even older (Edwardian?) porn pamphlets in a tobacco tin plastered into the ceiling of our cellar.
Horsehair
I found a piece of cracked pottery and a piece of homespun cloth in the attic rafters (under the floor) of my PA house.