flooring Resurrected
The guy from Wisconsin that came and pulled the flooring sent me a photo of its new home. It will be sanded and finished in the summer, but you can already tell it wasn't meant to die in a garbage heap yet.
Up on the Roof, Down goes the old
Our 2nd floor tenants here mentioned the ceiling in the kitchen was showing some water damage again after the last big snowstorm. I figured I had already patched that area above the kitchen with lots of tar last year, but apparently to no avail. I've know since I bought the building that the roof needed to be completely replaced, since much of it was rippled and many of the joints with the parapet walls were tearing. I made the mistake of hiring some fly by night contractors to put a layer of paint-able rubber membrane on over 5 years ago, and I thought that would hold it for awhile, but the membrane already had started coming off in the same year. At that same time, I did get some estimates for a 'modified bitumen roof' for about $10K. Once of the estimators took a sample of my existing roof, and said there were 7 layers of roof, and what looked to be the original gravel roof! So, obviously, this roof needed to be completely torn off. I contacted a numbe...
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