Quartz fireplace facing cracked suddenly
Jennifer BH
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Where I've been...lately.
Comments (11)OK, I guess your absence is excused. :) Everything you've put your talented hands to is just terrific! I certainly hope the fireplace and the many snowflakes have been stored lovingly away so they may be hauled out in all the years to come. Loving efforts like your's (!) are the basis of "traditions". I do so hope the fact is not "lost" on people who, too often, look only to the "goal" immediately in front of them... I could have sent you cat and dog hair in quantities certain to cover a child's mask in no time flat. (Unlike Cynthia, ;) ). Babs., you would have really like Mum a lot. She was always "into" something... (consequently, so were my brother and I). Papier mache, stripping furniture, painting something, sewing, hooking rugs or braiding them... . Our Halloween costumes were wonderful... but we were required to be something SCAREY... no princesses allowed. I see you've used your time profitably and JUDICIOUSLY. I'm not in the least surprised! and am delighted with your photo essay....See Moregas or wood fireplace?
Comments (58)Interesting replies to this thread. The ultimate decision...gas or wood...depends on what you want or what you are trying to achieve from your fireplace. Are you interested in the physically contributing to the fire? Do you want to split and stack wood, benefitting from the "wood warms you twice" credo? The couple of times a week ritual of going out to the stack and collecting a few armloads of wood to bring into the house? The satisfaction of building and setting the fire? Are you looking for the aesthetic of a wood fire? The snap, crackle and pop as the pitch pockets flare up? Are you looking to be transfixed by the ever-changing flame pattern as the wood logs burn down, with the variety of flame provided by buringing different types of wood? Do you like the subtle hint of smoke? Are you willing to accept that having a wood fire may contribute a some heat gain to the house, or that it may actually cost you BTUs? Again, a nicely designed Rumford or equivalent with make-up air will give you a net positive, a poorly constructed firebox installed in a leaky house, or even in a tight house, that requires you to crack a window to keep the draft going, might actually have a negative effect on your heating bill. If you'd prefer a turnkey fire with a fairly repetative flame pattern and prefer to have minimal interaction with the process of building a fire, then gas might be fot you. If you still want a wood fire but are pushing for greater thermal efficiency then a wood buringing insert with a catalytic might be the best bet. If you're like me and prefer to burn wood that you have chopped and split, and you enjoy the process of creating and enjoy the aesthetic provided by an open woodburning fire, then have a rumsford built. And have you mason provide make-up air for added efficiency with a better burn...as well as an ash cleanout in the back of the firebox to make ash removal a breeze....See MoreUrgently Need Help re: Farm Sink
Comments (8)"The problem with getting OLD is that you don't get to DO IT OVER many more times!!!!!" LOL! Boy, I hear you there! And you're right: it IS my house. Thank you for reminding me. This upcoming move is a practical one, a sensible one, and I'm happy to have an asset I can share with the kids when they need it (likewise, this is a big house for me, all on my own, to rattle around in; it's nice to have family fill it again). I want DIL to feel at home here so am mindful about balancing the tastes of 2 households (yet I admit, in the way-back of my mind lives the teeniest ghost of a concern about becoming "Grandma who lives in the attic of our house"). So after endless months of researching sinks, avidly sopping up the accumulated wisdom of this forum, then confidently settling on the Herbeau farm sink, I was thrust back into indecision overnight, questioning my judgment, weighing my wants against what would best suit them, viewing my pricey Herbeau in the cold light of a no-nonsense, indestructible $400 quartz sink. But you're right. Especially in the face of our family's turn of events, this kitchen sink may very well be my last fling. So I've taken that plunge. I ordered my Herbeau this afternoon. Thank you for steadying my perspective....See MoreCracks between inset kitchen cabinet?! DISSAPOINTED.
Comments (54)@klm6382 all true custom cabinet lines will produce combined or ganged inset cabinets, which is what latifolia has. There are size limitations, from production to transportaion, to install. I used Crystal inset in my recent remodel, and we ganged as much as we could. I have a small kitchen, so that helped. Our longest run of base cabinets is 12 feet, and we were able to seam it together at the paneled dishwasher. There is a 60" run to the left of the dishwasher, ganged, and a 60" run to the right of the dishwasher, ganged. Our (small) 60" island is all one ganged unit. Our uppers are all ganged. If you want limited seams, tell your designer that you want as much ganged/combined as possible. There will likely have to be some seams. Tell your designer in drawings where the seams will be so you understand....See MoreUser
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