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   MikeFitz | May 01, 2006 08:36pm | #1

   I can see I need to lose some weight!

   
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   TGNY | May 01, 2006 10:34pm | #5

   Nice timberframe, where is that going up, in Vermont?

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   FastEddie | May 01, 2006 09:06pm | #2

   Nice houses limey.  What are you doing?

   On the first pic, right hand side of the roof, looks like an open hatch with wires hanging out ... what is it?

    

   "When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it."  T. Roosevelt

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   limeyjoiner | May 01, 2006 10:30pm | #4

   I'm running baseboard in the kitchen, remodling the dining room (wainscotting , new door and window casings) , building a timberframed garage and summerhouse.The hatch is a velux roof window.

   Edited 5/1/2006 3:36 pm ET by limeyjoiner

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   FastEddie | May 02, 2006 01:40am | #15

   Do you have any pictures of the garage and summer house?  What's a summer house?  Is it any different that a second home? 

   "When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it."  T. Roosevelt

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   limeyjoiner | May 02, 2006 01:53am | #17

   I havn't started the garage or summer house yet, but I'll post pics of them from start to finish.

   Summer houses are typically small buildings in the garden where you can sit and shelter from the sun (more typically the rain in this part of the world)

    

   Here's an off the shelf model:

   View Image"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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   user-14544 | May 02, 2006 02:39am | #19

   man...just looking at those pics gets me yearning for a vacation...I'd love to come and visit the Motherland (Welsh heritage) someday...

   Thanks for the pics...for the past 4 weeks, I've been having this thing staring at me:knowledge without experience is just information.... Mark Twain

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   txlandlord | May 01, 2006 09:15pm | #3

   What I see in short observation:

   Looks European, oh yea "limeyjoiner".

   Is that a dogwood tree in bloom in the background in pic 1?

   Looks as if the roof needs repair in pic 1.

   The second pic looks like Texas. Did you build the new fence?

   I would not want to reroof the house across the street.

   Must not be end of June or early July becasue there are no Independence Day 4th of July decorations. : - )

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   limeyjoiner | May 01, 2006 10:35pm | #6

   the pics are all in the N West of england,I think the tree is either a cherry or an apple I'm not sure, the roof is old but in good condition.The thatched roof has recently been redone, I really like the little bird on the end"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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   JeffBuck | May 02, 2006 12:58am | #8

   "the pics are all in the N West of england,"

    

   what'sa matter ... U forget the name of the town yer working in?

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   limeyjoiner | May 02, 2006 01:13am | #10

   I put N West england because if I put Larbreck none of you guys would know where i meantIf you must know exactly where i mean, google earth coordinates are:53,51',32.71" N
   2,53'56.21" W"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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   JeffBuck | May 02, 2006 01:21am | #11

   Ohh ... Larbreck.

    

   nice little town.

   I've driven all thru England ... never heard of a place called Larbreck ... but I bet I've driven close to ya!

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   CAGIV | May 02, 2006 01:38am | #14

   I'd be impressed if Jeff could find NW England on a map.

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   user-14544 | May 02, 2006 02:34am | #18

   ...or NEW England for that matter...:Pknowledge without experience is just information.... Mark Twain

   http://www.cobrajem.com

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   JeffBuck | May 02, 2006 05:25am | #21

   Ha!

    

   got ya both ... I've driven there too!

    

   again .. may have been on the wrong side of the road ...

    

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   JeffBuck | May 02, 2006 05:24am | #20

   anytime yer up for a trip ...

   U buy and I'll drive!

    

   one of the things I miss most about Cath getting out of the airline biz ... no more tooling around lost on the backroads thru the UK.

   for some reason ... almost like I was born to drive on the "wrong side"?

   I'm also certified fastest man on the roundabout too!

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   wrudiger | May 02, 2006 09:41am | #23

   Don't know about BA, but in general it just ain't like it use ta be.  DW's with American; I've done the hot date on the Left Bank (long hual from San Francisco, but fun!), the 30 hour layover in the theater district in NYC, 24 hrs in Hawaii, ...  Those are pretty much gone now.  From SFO, Hawaii is now a turn.   

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   CAGIV | May 03, 2006 07:09pm | #34

   3 years ago or so we rented a car on a family trip,    That was the most insane driving I have done.   Next time I'll take the cab's

   Now driving in Austria was a little more fun

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   intrepidcat | May 02, 2006 12:54am | #7

   Very interesting houses. Thanks for posting the pics.

    

   When were those houses built?

    

    

    

    

   Live the Good Life in the Permian Basin. 

    

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   limeyjoiner | May 02, 2006 01:05am | #9

   I think that the house I'm working in is around 350 years old, the half timbered one with the tatch must be older but I don't really know."Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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   intrepidcat | May 02, 2006 09:21pm | #26

   Those are great homes. Very interesting.

   Any chance of a few inside pics and maybe what you are working on?

    

   Thanks for posting the pics. They're great.

    

    Live the Good Life in the Permian Basin. 

    

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   limeyjoiner | May 02, 2006 09:37pm | #27

   I'll gets some internal pics tomorrow, I'm mostly doing punch list work finishing off what the owner couldn't (or what his wife wouldn't let him do)."Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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   intrepidcat | May 02, 2006 11:52pm | #30

   Thanks. Looking forward to 'em.

    Live the Good Life in the Permian Basin. 

    

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   JeffBuck | May 02, 2006 01:24am | #12

   http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Lancashire/Larbreck/pictures

    

   Hey ... went searching ... here's a site that needs your pictures of Larbreck!

   Jeff

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   limeyjoiner | May 02, 2006 01:31am | #13

   It's only a small place, its on the road between lancaster and blackpool, maybe you've been past.Nice site you found, I'll have to have a look around it tomorrow."Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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   Snort | May 02, 2006 01:50am | #16

   Yours is very nice, I've got weird...I worked in the purple house all winter, overlooked this labrynth.I get to go back Wed., carpet guys broke a maple stair tread!? I'll get some greener pics of the big grape.I'll bet Buck was looking for Little Plumpton<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head

   
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   plumbbill | May 02, 2006 08:49am | #22

   Here's the view from the 6.5 million condo 41st & 42nd floor Bellevue Wa.

   Do you look to the government for an entitlement, or to GOD for empowerment. BDW

   
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   G80104 | May 02, 2006 04:01pm | #24

     Nice view from up there, How many sq.ft. for $6.5mill ?

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   plumbbill | May 03, 2006 04:16am | #33

   Pretty sure it's 7200 square feet

   An insurence exec bought itDo you look to the government for an entitlement, or to GOD for empowerment. BDW

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   MikeFitz | May 02, 2006 08:49pm | #25

   That's the view when the weather's clear.  The other six days a week it looks like this:

   
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   JeffBuck | May 02, 2006 11:48pm | #28

   here's one for ya ... or three.

    

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   JeffBuck | May 02, 2006 11:51pm | #29

   Before and after?

    

   ok ... maybe front and back ... of the property ... not the barn.View Image

    

    

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   Edited 5/2/2006 4:52 pm ET by JeffBuck

   
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   limeyjoiner | May 03, 2006 12:51am | #31

   Good looking house, are you doing something to the barn?"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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   JeffBuck | May 03, 2006 01:43am | #32

   barn "restoration" ...

   and trim carpentry.

   That's me!

    

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   RenaissanceRestorations | May 04, 2006 02:52am | #35

   Nice house. Once stayed in a house in Wales (town of Mold) back in 1987. House was 1st built in the 1300's, a new meaning to "this old house" :)

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   JeffBuck | May 04, 2006 03:10am | #36

   at one point years ago ...

   my wife had the chance to pursue a job with BA, in London.

   I considered my options ... and was looking into becomming a thatcher ..

   or whatever the term was ... guy who did thatch roofs.

    

   In the end we decided to stay put ... but I had a line on a job with a guy outside London ... he was a friend of a friend of a friend ... then probably someones cousin.

   at that time ... there were very few guys that'd thatch ... it was kinda  dying art ... and he made a pretty good living at it ... repairing/installing only top dollar jobs.

   Seemed like it'da been a pretty interresting career path.

   Jeff

    

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   limeyjoiner | May 04, 2006 09:14pm | #37

   I think a lot of guys had the same idea about becoming a thatcher, I recently heard that the market is saturated with them, too many thatchers not enough roofs.It's one of those jobs that people get romantic ideas about, I used to earn my living building and repairing wooden boats and there was the same thing happening there, professional guys who spent their life behind a desk would have a mid life crisis take early retirement and go to a boatbuilding school with airy fairy ideas. we (time served guys) would refer to them as born again boat builders, thankfully 9 times out of 10 they'ed last about a year, find they couldn't earn a what they had expected to and go back to working behind a desk, otherwise there wouldn't have been enough work to keep us going"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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   Snort | May 05, 2006 01:46am | #38

   It may not be pretty, but it's comforting<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head

   
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   DougU | May 05, 2006 02:16am | #39

   the frame is very fitting!

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   JeffBuck | May 05, 2006 02:44am | #40

   I could see that.

   I said if it went thru ... I'd have to triple my allergy pill funding ...

    

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   brownbagg | May 05, 2006 04:14am | #41

   since oct, 05