Something that I’ve known more or less since we moved into this house is that it tragically lacks ventilation. The furnace takes its combustion air from the workshop and make-up air comes in via a 3″ diameter plastic pipe that sticks out of the side of the house.  The range hood in the kitchen is primarily decorative.  It takes the air from under neath it (which may be smoky or steamy or what have you) and speedily redistributes it throughout the kitchen.  Many homes have a range hood that is vented outdoors which actually does some good.  Ours does not.  Until fairly recently, our bathroom also lacked any sort of mechanical ventilation relying only on a window that we almost never open.
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Two quick notes for today. Â Yesterday I got some email that was a day late for April Fool’s Day.
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I have never installed tile before in my life. This is a wholly new concept to me. I have seen tile installed. The process and the finished product both. Our tile is a particularly repulsive combination of off-white and a rather muddy brown streaking effect. Fortunately, we have two large boxes of leftover tile in the basement which, until now, had only seen service as a means of pressing the Book Safes that I made for Dad & Paul (my brother-in-law) for Christmas. I retrieved a lone, completely unused tile from the workshop to replace one of its fallen comrades who had broken on impact with the tub.
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