I know it’s last minute, but I spotted this in a community paper – Vancouver Heritage Foundation is offering an all-day class on old building/house conservation this Saturday (Oct 17). See their site for all the details.

Several weeks ago I was pretty psyched about finding a couple great old doors and a fantastic old double hung window for a tiny fraction of what they would have cost new.
The honeymoon is long since over. I’ve spent weeks with chemicals and heat guns stripping the several layers or latex and oil and whatever [...]

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve picked up some really good deals.

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item
paid
regular

Ginger Empire bathroom lights
From Cantu
$5 each
$657 each
from manufacturer

Jado 818 bathroom faucet (some missing parts)
From eBay
$47
$589
from manufacturer

1920s Hoosier Cabinet
From Craigslist
$500
$750 +
from other craigslist
and eBay postings

95″ double-hung window
From Demolition sale we randomly drove by
$200
$1500
From similar Pella
and Marvin windows

Glass back door
From Demolition sale we randomly drove [...]

Yesterday I removed the double-hung windows from the demo house.  It proved to be a lot more work than I had expected.  This is because I didn’t know what I was doing–but not for lack of trying.  I spent a lot of time searching for information on how to remove a double-hung window and frame [...]

Right now our kitchen has a couple awkward window that face onto the back yard.  We want to open this up with a single large window centered on that wall.  This of course means getting the window soon because we’ll be opening up the wall when we demo the room, and we can’t leave an [...]