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	<title>This Decrepit Victorian &#187; renovation</title>
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	<description>To Restore a House in Church Hill, Richmond, Virginia</description>
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		<title>facadomized</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve got another house word into Urban Dictionary:  

facadomized 
The state of a house that has been aesthetically mangled during a cheap renovation. Usually involves the loss of much original detail and the use of inappropriately small windows.
&#8220;That big blue house on the corner really got facadomized in when they were trying to flip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>movin&#8217; on up</title>
		<link>http://lestercat.net/house/2008/06/14/movin-on-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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The former boarding house/whore house across the street has been restored and is for sale. For only $193,000, you&#8217;d get a house AND some good stories to tell&#8230;
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		<title>into the void</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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After 4 1/2 years in the house, we finally got the will together to bust up into the attic last week.



Given the things that we&#8217;ve found before, we completely expected the attic to be packed with bones and poop.




I&#8217;ve lost some sleep thinking about this wiring.



Dry! No poop!  No evil clowns!



We installed a set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>house renovation porn</title>
		<link>http://lestercat.net/house/2008/01/21/house-renovation-porn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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Our neighborhood blog has an ongoing series of before&#038;after photos of renovations from around the area, if you&#8217;re into that kind of thing&#8230;
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		<title>4 years</title>
		<link>http://lestercat.net/house/2007/10/13/4-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We moved in to our house 4 years ago today. We were pretty sure at that time that we&#8217;d be done in a year or 2; we still haven&#8217;t been in the attic yet&#8230;
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		<title>porch progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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The framing inspection on the porch went well, and we&#8217;ve* since put down the tongue&#038;groove floor and rebuilt the bottoms of the columns.



The porch roof had been jacked up on 2&#215;10s for something like 8 weeks, it is nice to see them gone.
*We on this has mostly been Jim at Reveal, with us as labor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>digging for and pouring footers</title>
		<link>http://lestercat.net/house/2007/07/26/digging-for-and-pouring-footers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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The crumbling brick piers that were supporting the porch went down about a foot into the dirt and then just stopped. This time around we&#8217;ve dug fairly substantial holes and filled them with cement.




Digging for the footers was not difficult but not really fun, either. The soil is mostly compacted sand, with clay under there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>found bottles</title>
		<link>http://lestercat.net/house/2007/07/24/found-bottles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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In addition to the opossum mummy, we also pulled a few 1960s/1970s bottles out from under the porch.




The bottle on the left, Climax ginger ale, seems to have been fairly Richmond-specific. I haven&#8217;t been able to track down much about them. The others are Nehi, R.C. Cola, and Pepsi.
]]></description>
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		<title>porch demo w/ mummified opossum</title>
		<link>http://lestercat.net/house/2007/07/23/porch-demo-w-mummified-opossum/</link>
		<comments>http://lestercat.net/house/2007/07/23/porch-demo-w-mummified-opossum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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At the end of day 1, the demolition is done and the truck is full of stuff to take to the dump. We found 4 or 5 old soda bottles and a mummified opossum.




We put up the new supports, took down the 2&#215;4 handrails, pulled up the flooring, and pulled all of the mostly rotted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>front porch rebuild!</title>
		<link>http://lestercat.net/house/2007/07/23/front-porch-rebuild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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Jim from Reveal, Inc and I will be rebuilding the flooring and supports of our front porch over the next 2 or 3 weeks.




We had the fir tongue&#038; groove flooring delivered by Siewer&#8217;s Kumber and Millwork late last week. Siewer&#8217;s continues to be one of the best  experiences of working on this house.


Today we [...]]]></description>
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