Archive for February, 2012

Where can I find stensils for wall panels?

Want to paint the paneling around my living room fireplace, where can I find stencils to design a look of brick/stone, paneling is very easy to paint over. H E L P

Has anyone ever painted a brick wall?

I have a basement that is part brick and part dark paneling. And it’s dark, year round. I want to brighten it up some. I want to paint down there. I know I can paint the panels, but not sure about the brick. I’m not even sure it that would look right. Whatcha think?

how can i make a fauk brick wall look brighter?

it is in my living room which has paneled walls and i would like to make it brighter

i want to mount a fence on a low wall.its only 1 brick wide. have h posts and chevron panels how do i do it?

Can I mount a flat screen tv on a brick wall?

I want to buy a new flat panel tv, but i’m not sure that I can mount it where I want. I would need to mount it over my fireplace. This means mounting it on a brick wall.

Is this even possible? What special equipment will I need?

Thanks

How much would it cost to renovate this house? And what would need to be done?

I’m 13 years old and I’m writing a book for fun. My character inherited an old farmhouse and she wants to renovate it. Roughly, how much do you think it would cost in the end? And what would need to be done to make it livaeable? Here’s a few paragraph’s on it:

Kathryn O’Reilly’s green eyes scanned her new bedroom. It was old, and showed definite signs of abandonment. The ugly yellow paint behind the piles of moving boxes was chipping off the walls, wide, long cracks were forming on the ceiling, and the disgusting carpet had a large array of unidentifiable stains. The aged, green window shutters looked like they were more fitting for an old haunted house rather than an abandoned farmhouse, and she suspected that if she tried to close them they would most likely fall off into the bushes below. The room, as well as the rest of the house, smelled mouldy and damp.
She left the bedroom and sauntered down the cramped corridor to the kitchen. It had no appliances, just a few cupboards with the doors falling off its rusty hinges, and a long countertop made of cracked tiles and damaged wood. Like the bedroom, the kitchen ceiling had many narrow cracks. The hardwood floor was somewhat dented, with a few planks protruding out of the otherwise decent floor.
She then opened the door leading into the living room. It was a decent size, with ceiling cracks and old flooring quite similar to that of the kitchen. She meandered over to the decrepit fireplace and inspected the inside. The bottom of it had a layer of ashes dating back to who-knows-when, and besides a few chips in the bricks and stone mantle, it was in good enough shape. It had 3 large ceiling-to-floor windows looking out over the deserted landscape, which consisted of yellow and green grass, large black ash and apple trees, and a narrow gravel road at the end of the long, winding drive way. There were no neighbours for miles. Just the way she liked it.

Also, imagine that there’s a small bathroom with no toilet and a really old tub (2 bathrooms), and a total of 3 bedrooms similar to the one described in the first paragraph. And a big unfinished basement.
Thanks in advanced!

How much do you think it would it cost altogether to renovate this farmhouse?

I’m 13 years old and I’m writing a book for fun. My character just inherited an old abandoned farmhouse and she wants to renovate it. How much do you think it would cost in the end to fix everything? And what would need to be done to make it liveable? Here’s a few paragraphs about it:

Kathryn O’Reilly’s green eyes scanned her new bedroom. It was old, and showed definite signs of abandonment. The ugly yellow paint behind the piles of moving boxes was chipping off the walls, wide, long cracks were forming on the ceiling, and the disgusting carpet had a large array of unidentifiable stains. The aged, green window shutters looked like they were more fitting for an old haunted house rather than an abandoned farmhouse, and she suspected that if she tried to close them they would most likely fall off into the bushes below. The room, as well as the rest of the house, smelled mouldy and damp.
She left the bedroom and sauntered down the cramped corridor to the kitchen. It had no appliances, just a few cupboards with the doors falling off its rusty hinges, and a long countertop made of cracked tiles and damaged wood. Like the bedroom, the kitchen ceiling had many narrow cracks. The hardwood floor was somewhat dented, with a few planks protruding out of the otherwise decent floor.
She then opened the door leading into the living room. It was a decent size, with ceiling cracks and old flooring quite similar to that of the kitchen. She meandered over to the decrepit fireplace and inspected the inside. The bottom of it had a layer of ashes dating back to who-knows-when, and besides a few chips in the bricks and stone mantle, it was in good enough shape. It had 3 large ceiling-to-floor windows looking out over the deserted landscape, which consisted of yellow and green grass, large black ash and apple trees, and a narrow gravel road at the end of the long, winding drive way. There were no neighbours for miles. Just the way she liked it.

Thanks in advance!

Back boiler – removal or bricking back over and cost?

I have recently bought a semi-detached house and the fireplace in the dining room (shared wall with neighbours) has an old back boiler in it.
Its not connected to the gas or water (those were both done when central heating and combi were put in some time ago) but instead of the boiler being removed, it was just breeze blocked over. The problem is that it has been ventilated properly and this, coupled with the fact that the chimney have not been capped off has meant that several years of crud has accumulated and damp appeared on the blocked over chimney breast.
All this was only discovered when we were trying to discover the source of the damp, but now the question is: should we see if we can get the old back boiler removed completely, or should we try and brick it back up with improved ventilation?
I’d like to take it out but do not know if it would be a builder or a plumber who would do this (as it is no longer connected to water/gas and how much it would cost. Any ideas?

HDMI CABLE HELP PLEASE!!?

I’m going to be getting a flat screen TV and it has a HDMI port. If I buy a HDMI cable, does it make my TV more hi-def or is it only more hi-def if I pay for HD channels. Also, what to i connect it to…i know on end on the TV itself, but what about the other end. Do i need to install something and how much would that cost if I had too. I’m hopefully going to mount the TV on my brick fireplace if I can and hide all the wires good, which I still haven’t figured out how to do.

Thanks everyone!

Do I really owe her money for her broken cell phone?

An old friend of mine, from out of state, came up to her me and a couple other friends for 2 weeks. She spent the night at my house one of those nights.

Well, we were sleeping in my basement, and she needed to charge her cell phone. Well the only plugs i have in my basement are high up on the wall, so she plugged it in, and balanced her cell phone on a lamp shade even though there was plenty of other high spaces that were much more stable than a lampshade. Well we woke up in the morning, and it was on the floor and the front and inner screen had apparently smashed off my brick fireplace when it fell off the lamp. Her phone was compleatly broken, and since the people she lives with were still back home, i took her to the verizon store to get it fixed. They told her it would cost 50 dollars. I felt bad that she had to pay that much, because she’s not very wealthy and she only had 30 dollars left for the next two weeks she was viseting everyone. So I offered to LEND her 20 dollars, and she made a point to tell me that she would pay me back. Well it turned out that she didn’t need my lended money, because she called her mom and ended up using her moms debt card. I then took her out to dinner on my tab.

Two weeks later, I get a text from her asking if i’m still willing to give her that 20 bucks for her cell phone. I asked her why, because she already debt carded it, and she told me it was because her mom was asking and thought i should pay what I offered. I explained that I was only offering that as a loan only, and i reminded her of how she already knew it was a loan. Well now she’s pissed off and her mom is angry as hell at me. I’m 17 years old, why would an adult want to suck money from a freaking 17 year old who works at Arbys. My family itself is extreamly well off money wise, while she’s kind of poor and she knows my family has money. I see no reason, however, to have to pay for her mistakes. There is no proof that my cat knocked it over or anything. It could have just fallen. I’m really upset because i know she’ll tell all our friends that I’m being a cheap skate when it was cleary my fault. Should I just pay it so that my other friends aren’t secretly like “she’s such a rich selfish person”. I really could pay for it with no problem at all, but I don’t know if it’s right that I should have too just because I can.