RR,

I remodeled, renovated, and added on to an old house from 1980 - 1986. Guess why I'm building new from the ground up?

I've crawled in crawl spaces where there was no room to crawl, on my back, and slid natural gas pipe with a 90* elbow pre-installed over my body and into position, with my contractor friend in the kitchen shining a flashlight through the tiny hole in the floor, and guiding me to line up that damn pipe and tilt it up and through the hole to feed the new kitchen stove. Oh, and cut out some dry rot in the floor where the old kitchen sink had been, dropped five concrete blocks down, and crawled and shoved them into place and jacked up and leveled the floor of the house.

Yeah, if I never work on an old house again, it will be too soon. What I'm doing now is actually fun, except for having studs behind these damn electrical boxes.

Sg