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The deck Stephen Good Day download with
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part by Kellertran, which is the
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keep it off, and also by
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us to visit the universe of one. Tom Kreitler Thomas Jay Kreitler esquire,

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I don't know your middle Initially listen
Jack Mitcham, who knows you know?

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With me came from wherever other things
come from? With me? So Tommy

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and his friend Leslie Sagretti hosts the
weekend program The Money Pit, heard on

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a lot of these same stations.
But beside that, they also have their

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podcast, and they have their newsletter
lots of information and is a special added

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attraction. We have our listeners who
send in questions so that Tom can answer

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them. Here's Tracy listening to the
program as a has wallpaper on top of

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a cracked plaster wall and she wants
to know how to fix the wall.

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Well, I can I'm just going
to take a wild guess. You can't

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fix it with a wallpaper on it? How's my intuition, Tommy, Well,

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look, she says, her plaster
walls are very badly cracked. Should

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she remove the wallpaper and repair the
walls or is it better to just sheet

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rock over what's there now? If
the walls are really badly cracked, you're

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going to have a heck of a
lot of repairs to do there. And

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yeah, she do need to remove
the wallpaper to do that. When plaster

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walls get to be what I can
only imagine now is very very old,

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you can maintain them and keep them
going, but you get a lot of

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cracks, it's time to give up. And I do believe having done this

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both ways, you know, do
you tear off the old plaster and drywall

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studs the way a hospital today,
or do you put new drywall on top

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of the old plaster. I have
determined that the second way is the better

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way to go, because what I
discovered was when you take off the old

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plaster and try to try all over
that because plaster is put on wet and

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gives the gave the tradesmen the opportunity
to smooth things out and level things out.

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Even if the walls does were not
exactly plumba then they can actually fix

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that. But with drywall you can't. So I found there was a lot

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more work to go with drywall with
having taken the plaster off, not to

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mention the fact that it's a heck
of a message job. So what I

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would do is if the walls are
that bad, is I would drywall on

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top. But now you don't have
to use half ins drywall. You could

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use three ads drywall that's available.
And the only asition, the only modifications

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you're gonna have to make your tracy
is that when you get around outlets and

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light switches, you're gonna have to
extend those outlet boxes and switch boxes out

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of the flush with the front of
the drywall. So I remember because I've

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lived in this farm area all my
life, and the older homes, I

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remember that when I was married,
they'ved in one of the oldest homes in

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Framingham and the plaster was applied to
horsehair on top of slats. So when

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we were redoing, especially the seemings, we just took we took the floor

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up in the attic and I used
a sledgehammer and just knocked all of that

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stuff down. What an ungodly mess
a man. But the old hous you

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can have, you can have,
we would laugh. You could have chip

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last jip laugh is what you're describing. It's kind of like the early version

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of sheet rock, right. It
would put up these boards that were like

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around two foot by four foot and
then they would plaster on top of those.

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So those those chip lack boards held
held the plaster. And actually that

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is probably the hardest wall surface that
was ever done, because you can tell

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when if you just knock on those
walls with your knuckles, you can hear

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it's sound like seramic. You know, yeah, good, And you don't

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want to be breathing that stuff in
no matter what do not well, if

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you're going to tear over a place
like that, you definitely don't want to

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be breathing in all the dust stuff
it comes up. And by the way,

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to that end, aside from you
know, having a mask, I

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always like to set up my fans
in the house so I depressurize the room

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and working in So other words,
you did one room, I need windows

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on one side, windows on the
other. I'd put a box span a

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window so it was always pulling the
dust out, get it out, and

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then you give a window, leave
a window open on the other side,

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so that you had some makeup air
and that made it a lot more pleasant

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to work in it space. At
moneypit dot com Forward Slash Podcast, you

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got some ideas for space saving in
a small bathroom. We've all had experience

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with those damn small bathrooms. What
do you do? Yeah, yep,

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that's right. We go through all
the different options for small bathrooms and how

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you can make them feel a lot
larger. So things like the fixture design

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right. You can use corner showers
quick called quadrant showers. There are different

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sized toilets. There are storage options, for example, where you can store

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on using the vertical space on top
of an existing toilet. You would might

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want to consider using a flat top
versus around top. There's lots of little

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tricks of the trade like that for
picking up storage in a small space and

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getting everything in that small backford space
that you need. Yep, all right,

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So that tip you can get at
moneypit dot com Forward Slash Podcast.

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You also have the benefit of Tom
and his expertise and the moneypit dot Com

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newsletter moneypit dot com Forwards Last newsletter, and you can also send us questions

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because the world is full of people
who want to do it better in their

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home, and there's nobody better to
help you do it better than Tom Kreidler

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at moneypit dot com. The Nex
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Kirshner is made possible in part by
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