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Tony Hwang

aemeijers wrote:
On 1/16/2011 5:18 PM, wrote:
On Jan 16, 4:33 pm, wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:46:33 -0500, Nate
wrote:

On 01/15/2011 07:34 PM, leza wang wrote:
water coming form the basement and the basement need for sure
waterproofing treatment. the house sold as is (power sale) and i am
not sure if the plumming working fine because i have not moved yet (i
live in toronto). i have found that the attic need insulation as well,
crapet upstair need to be changed, the the roofing shanquel need to be
replace soo. The front of the house is not bring but they made it look
like it is bring (they put something look like brong but it is very
thin, i do not know the name). and some other minor stuff need to be
done inside the house like painting, windows cleaning or replacing
etc.

Could you please advise me what I should do first (priority wise). I
do not want to do something first and then do the next thing and then
find that I have to undo what I did first to finsh the second task.

Thanks a lot

if you're serious...

roof and dampness in basement are 1st priorities. everything else is
secondary. make the thing weathertight first.

nate

I hope you got it real cheap. Is it in Toronto? or Hamilton? - how far
out?

If the house is insul-brick (looks like brick but made out of
wood-fibre type crap with stone finish like shingles) no Canadian
insurance company will insure it. MANY houses of that age were sided
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is that because of asbestos in siding?

does the home have any knob and tube wiring.

i looked at a home nearby, owener was looking for volunteers to help
rebuild. it was near a closed mine, and along the railroad tracks.

It must of been built as people picked up stuff that fell off trains.

A hodgepoge of misc material using some railroad track as framing. the
track was worn.

Chuckle. At estate sales in older blue-collar parts of town here, more
than once I have looked up at the center beam in the basement, and
realized it was an upside-down stick of railroad track. Grand Trunk used
to have a pretty big repair shop here, back before CN absorbed them into
the parent company.

Hmmm,
2011 minus 90 goes back to 1921. Isn't that the time resources were
scarce? It was B4 I was born.