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I just saw your problem while looking for something else. Two years ago we bought a beauty MCM house in central Florida. It was redone poorly by a 'House Flipper'. The house was inspected by a supposedly well known company. As soon as move in, I could smell an off smell. A new metal roof had been put on over the old shingle roof.... At the time due to a family member dying the option of having the house taken back by seller and getting money back and getting reimbursement from Home Inspection was offered by a local lawyer after he had another company inspect the house. Unfortunately that was just the wrong time to do that- the timing was just too much. The roof had a small leak one week after moving in which the roofer supposedly repaired. About 6 months ago the roof leaked again- around 3 sides of the chimney by the original leak. I had a different roofer come out. He called the county inspection dept who came out and were very disgusted that one of their people had passed the roofing inspection. The original roofer was notified and was extremely mad that the second roofer would have the 'audacity' to call county out. Long story short- the old roof leaked and the 'House Flipper/roofer tried to cover up the old wet roof without removing it and places on new roof not done properly. That old damaged wood from prior wet caused a musky/slightly moldy? smell. County made roofer do repairs correctly. I thank the second roofer who came out and started the ball rolling and did not try to scam me. I know who NOT/DO USE on next house ... Maybe you have wood that was/is wet somewhere??

Two years ago, I had a similar problem with my pool which was built in 1974 in GA. It is a 32,000 gal. inground with wooden walls underneath the vinyl liner. I called FOUR pool companies before I found one who could fix the holes I had without replacing the entire liner. The one I called specialized in construction repair of pools. What they did is, they cut a large metal sheet and secured it over the wall UNDER the liner where the wall had holes in it. The liner was coming out a great deal. Once they put the metal over the wood, they pulled the liner back up and secured it back into the coping. They charged around $350 to do this, which took about 2-3 hours. The other three pool companies all said that either they could not help me at all, as they had never seen a pool like mine, or that I would need to completely replace the liner, which would need to be custom made at a cost of several thousand dollars. The liner has patched leaks, and cracks in the very old coping, so I am planning on replacing it next year. The construction pool company I used told me that when I have them put in the new liner, they will put metal over any other holes in the wood at a cost of about $300. Replacing the liner itself will be around $2800. It really helped that they were able to make the repairs they did, rather than replace the liner, two years ago when I first moved into the house and had a lot of other expenses. They are a local pool co. in GA unfortunatly so not nationwide. You might want to call around and try to find a company that specializes in construction repair of pools, and/or ask them if they could put a metal sheet over the wood, and secure it somehow to the wall. Good luck in finding someone who will think "outside the box" and not just try to put a cast on a problem which only needs a band-aid, so to speak.

John, we took the doors off one wall cabinet and love it. That's where the microwave, glasses, and cookbooks live -- all things we want to grab without bothering to open a door. Here, on the far right, above the ridiculously-placed tulips: I do feel one has to have a relative perspective on these things. Most folks who dislike open cabinets do so because it looks cluttered/dirty/dusty in their eyes. But it really is practical for some purposes. In terms of dirt, I don't notice any more dust there than elsewhere in the kitchen. We store our glasses upside-down, as god intended, so there's no worry about open surfaces. And we have cats. And there are always those neat-o stainless grid shelves, which would solve the dust issue. When I think of you, Johnliu, I really don't think of furbelows and polished blank surfaces, of someone who's going to be running white gloves over shelves and tsk-tsking. No, I think of phrases like "sluicing down", "mise-en-scene" and "fortress of clattery, efficient solitude." I think shelves would fit into your vision very well, if they're judiciously planned and used for just the right sort of at-hand storage.