Dave Look in my photo album. You can see that you can take out sections of wall safely. If you can, put in some temporary support inboard from where you are working. Tear everything out up to good wood and replace it. That includes the studs. Take them right out and replace them. It might be a good ...

Greg is right, but doing bit of framing work is worth it in the long run. I have even put in sliding patio doors, so really, anything is doable.

Jim

One of those cases where it is not so much the tools as the person using them. Hope it all goes well for you.

Jim

Beauty eh

Jim

you can always make a home bigger...kinda hard to do that with land

Jim

Layout looks very much like ours. We removed the upper cabinets from the peninsula too. Nice job! I like the "beams" on the cathedral ceiling.

Jim

Looks good! If anyone complains that it doesn't, tell them to feel free to pitch in with any improvements! lol

Jim

That is beautiful!

Jim

That's a great idea Mark! I do turn the blower on manually every now and then if the ends of the house starts getting cold. I am thinking of replacing my duct and incorperating a squirrel cage fan to blow hot air from the stove into it. There will be outlets just at the ends of the home as the warm ...

Love Tony as a driver, just bought a chevy and been a chevy guy for ever, even though I have had other brands.

Jim

With JGR officially going to Toyota, I guess I will have to re arrange my cheering prioritys. I like Tony, but will have to stay loyal to the Chevy boys. I guess next year it will be Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, and maybe add Bowyer to the list. Looks like Hendrik and RCR are the teams I will be che...

OH yes, if you don't have your stove installed yet....go straight up with the chimney, no elbows anywhere, much easier for cleaning.

Jim

Yup, furnace came on maybe 6 times last year. The wood stove kept us nice and toasty. I have 3/4" plywood skirting that I seal up for winter. A couple of fans, one built into stove. My wood stove is central in my 14x70. The fan on the wood stove blows the air up almost directly into a ceiling f...

Enjoy your weekend too. Sounds like you have a fun one lined up! As for us, we are going to the drag races today. Missed a lot due to the knee, but we are going to attempt 1 day that includes the night of fire. Hope I can make it through. Back to work on tuesday, they are letting me go back for 2 hr...

maybe we cood all take sum inglish lessins and lern how to spel more gooder! lol