
20 November 2014 | 17 replies
A little leveling cement where the tiles are popping up and new vinyl saves a lot of headaches and risk of a bad handyman resetting the toilet and the huge overcharge you'd get to fix the subfloor.Rick

26 September 2014 | 49 replies
In my market (Pittsburgh) most of the houses were built pre 1950, there for we deal with old all the time.As long as the guts are good then you are fine to jump on it look at the foundation:This is a mortar crack and if they are not misplaced then you should good to repair but you will want to ask a home inspector or contractor.When the crack goes through the blocks it normally is a sign of much more stress on the house and you might need wall anchors or even worse to replace it these options are much more expensive.If the house is REALLY old you might run into sand stone basements:Sand stone is much harder to tell but they also tend to be very sturdy, you also can put a cement coat over them for lasting protection too..

10 October 2021 | 62 replies
I'm doing a Video Blog Post on that same thing with Moving trucks, and just saw an episode of Junk Yard Empire, where the business owners painted an old ford and put it on 20 foot high stack of cement pillars since the city wouldn't allow a pole.....

13 October 2014 | 8 replies
I think maybe my post titled 'apprentice' suggested I want to swing hammers and pour cement.

8 December 2014 | 60 replies
Students will trash your place but there are remedies...cement floors, harden prison style bathrooms ..etc.

2 July 2019 | 189 replies
Kitchen Bath Windows Roof and Cement were all newer.

24 January 2015 | 11 replies
Basement is below ground and looks to be constructed of cement block.

16 March 2017 | 8 replies
Cement board is best to be used.

11 December 2017 | 10 replies
Depending on how you want it to look you may want to do all the gutting, rough in, cement board, ect yourself and leave the final tile work to a pro.

14 August 2018 | 63 replies
I always give them a month or two if they are nice.. and are keeping the house in decent shape.. if you get hard nosed you can end up with a trashed house pretty quickly.. cement down the pipes etc.Now some others do it different .. they just start eviction process with no personal contact.. if its a tenant the eviction flush's that out and then the owner is evicted.. and you deal with what you have..