Victorian House Renovation in Bloomingdale, DC
first a rant – i am loosing patience with tumblr, its slow, its down half the time, and the queue feature simply cannot handle more than one timed request. it simply publishes al your posts. we were on vacation for a week, but no one would have noticed if tumblr didn’t screw up. ugh. any expert out there on how to switch content to blogspot or wordpress?
now.
for all my huffing and puffing about wanting my estimate now, we decided to put the fireplace off.… Read the rest
First let me just say that PoP, a DC blog about DC, is awesome for taking questions from readers. We have submitted two, and both times recieved awesome feedback from his readers.
Now, to the matter at hand. As per suggestion from PoP readers, I was able to get in touch with Sergio, the chimney/ fireplace expert. He has a top hat!!! i just can’t get over how awesome/knowledgeable he was and he has a top hat!… Read the rest
There is something about fireplaces and old, turn-of-the-century homes.
Today, the chimney people came out to give us an estimate – we are looking at the same price tag as the A/C for two separate chimnys- hmmmm.
If we go through with rather expensive chimney work- we can apparently have either wood or gas. So we are thinking wood in dining room (chimney #1) and gas in the bedroom (chimney #2) – cause its so nice to wake up and turn on the warmth of fire!… Read the rest
who’s there?
its me, a FIREPLACE!
On Sunday morning, we were having breakfast with a friend, who suggested that we investigate what we have behind the plaster of what appeared to be a fireplace. So we did. After layers of plaster, we found some bricks:
After just a few minutes of scraping out mortar and hammering at the brick, sergey was able to push half out to reveal that behind was indeed a fireplace!… Read the rest