Back in September 2008, I made my first set of bulk head doors but they only lasted a few years. It seems that wood doors in this location are subject to wet and dry rot fungus. I made a second ...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2022/10/buying-in-bulk.html
For many years our upper porch deck has looked awful. There was a roof leak and gutter issues that caused sections of the floor to rot out. There were also no railings around the upper porch. Wel...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-upper-deck-is-done.html
If you have been following this site for any amount of time then you may remember the images of the house we lived in before finally moving into the Old Crack House in 2009. In case you forgot, h...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2022/09/remember-when.html
Back in 2014 I was doing this . Then we had issues with the box gutters at the front of the house and water pouring down on the front door feature. That forced me into doing this and over t...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2022/06/my-number-is-up.html
Long awaited update is happening at "This Old Crack House". It would appear that the web hosting service that I have used since 2005 when I started this blog has gone "Kaput" and much of my ear...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2022/05/time-for-change.html
Back in 2014 through 2016 I wrote a series of posts about “Helen’s House” which was built in 1900 by Leonard Volkenand. We turned it into a short term rental and market it through the Air...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2021/03/other-things.html
Wow. I didn't realize that my roof was done two years ago. It seems like yesterday I was out there risking my neck. Well, I have not been dormant. In fact, I have been fixing up other houses in...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2020/10/where-have-you-been-mayor-leitzell.html
So, I was able to get the roof done at the front of the house. The 1960s dormer is gone and I have replaced it with one that will be similar to the original Victorian era one. There is a problem ...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2018/05/more-roof-antics.html
One day I will have the most famous roof in Dayton. Back in 2010 I had to write this post to counter an attack on me by the local newspaper while I was mayor of Dayton. Their article no longer e...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-roof-continued.html
Here we are 16 years into our 3 year renovation project. My daughter is now 14 years old and I have FINALLY painted the bathroom. Here is a photographic recap of what we did to get this far. ...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2017/12/finally-new-post.html
I hate to slam a local business but I will no longer be using Dayton South Veterinary Clinic located at 3200 Wilmington Pike Kettering, Ohio 45429 or the services of Dr. Daniel T. Brauer. On ...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2017/04/cat-tales.html
Here is a series of photos showing current roof progress! It takes a while to remove four layers of shingle, clean it up. Tar paper a roof and then put metal on it. T...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2016/07/hows-that-roof-coming-along.html
It seems that is is raining just about every two days so far this year. This is a problem when you are trying to tear off a roof that has 4 layers of shingle over the original cedar shakes that w...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2016/07/more-roofing-antics.html
If you have been following this blog for many years then you may remember that I tried to sell my original Dayton home in September 2008 when the mortgage crisis struck. I rented it for several ...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2016/07/one-womans-trash-is-another-mans-garbage.html
There is what really appears to be an enclosed porch at the back of the house. Helen used to have a clothes dryer back there and a large cupboard on castors. There is also a built in set of cabin...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-debacle-of-mud-room.html
If you recall, back in January I was stripping wallpaper from the bedroom walls and ceilings leaving the rooms looking like this. Well, now they look like this! ...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2016/02/almost-there.html
There are two bedrooms upstairs at Helen's house. Both rooms were wallpapered and both rooms had experienced water damage in the past. The smaller bedroom looks like this from the hall. T...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2016/01/stripping-wallpaper-this-time.html
Here are two pictures of the upstairs bathroom. This room used to be a closet and sometime around 1940, when Helen's uncle became ill, they converted it into a bathroom and added the window. I t...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-bathroom-make-overs.html
If you have been following this blog for the last 10 years then you will know just how much I hate plumbing. Well, we had some plumbing problems with Helen's House. If you used the upstairs si...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2015/12/helens-house-update.html
Here is my second rant about the City of Dayton's Building Services Division and their total lack of professionalism and their inability to communicate effectively with their customers. On June 1...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2015/09/bad-city-services-rant-2.html
I'm not one to complain. I am pretty tolerant of most things but the time has come to expose the City of Dayton's Building Inspection Department for their total lack of professionalism and their ...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2015/09/bad-city-services-rant-1.html
OK, I promised this months ago but sometimes life catches up with you and you lack the time to blog about what you are doing. The kitchen at Helen's house is not conducive to modern living. It is...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2015/09/helens-house-kitchen-and-basement.html
Here is a postcard picture of Helen's house taken before 1915. I am not able to identify the person with the dog in the photograph. Here is how the house looks today. Helen kept ev...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2015/05/helens-house-continued.html
Let me tell you about Helen's House. We bought Helen's House in October 2013. Helen was our neighbor. She was born in 1921. Her mother, Mary Farrenkopf had tuberculosis at a young age so Helen...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2015/05/helens-house.html
More work has been done on my hall. I am only 14 years into my three year project at this point and I have been meaning to paint the hall for, say 10 years. So while the weather was cold I got th...
http://thisoldcrackhouse.blogspot.com/2015/04/earning-my-stripes.html