Category: This Old House

A series of photos of Gosford Castle in Northern Ireland. One of the largest castles ever built in Ireland in the unique style of Normandic revival, which sadly...

There is an old fortress for sale off the coast of England. Only £150,000. And I thought my house needed work. Here is the listing for it. Here are more picture...

Did some stuff this weekend – worked on the house a bit. About three years ago there was a big project in our neighborhood to replace a storm drain that r...

We have decided to get the floor refinished in the dining room and the kitchen. It’s probably about time as the finish is mostly gone in parts of the dini...

Let’s see, what did I do this weekend? I’m taking Fridays off for a few weeks to get some work done on the house. This weekend I replaced more sidin...

Did more work on the house this weekend. Tore off and replaced the roof over the little bay that juts out for the stairs. The roofers that we had replace the ro...

Sunday was wet, so I cleaned the basement and started making some storm windows. Then on Monday I discovered that the reason the MiniVan was shuddering so much ...

Spent all day today stripping paint off the side of my house. Whee… I have this tool called a SpeedHeater 1100, it’s an 1100W infrared heater. It he...