Tag: shoddy work

Chronicling my adventures restoring and updating a quirky old Philadelphia rowhouse

Door Jamb Surprise!

I own a 125-ish year old house that looked like only crackheads had worked on it before I bought it, so you know what kind of surprise I’m talking about. But before we get to that, a really long back story: I’ve always felt lukewarm about my front door (and I was doing mental backflips…
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Shoddy Work Hall of Shame

I’m having a problem in WordPress – most of my pages are all fine when I edit them but don’t show up when I publish and I can’t figure out why. The house tour can stay broken for now, but the h. Studs too short? Cut blocks of wood and/or stack up scraps of plywood to…
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Rediscovering More Shoddy Work

It feels like it’s 2013 all over again! You’d think I was done with the astoundingly bad repairs that I found all over the Crooked House, but here’s one more. Along with a whole lot of boob lights, the house came with a builder’s special grade chandelier. It stuck around into the demolition, so needless to…
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