Multiple choice: What do I have in common with style icon of the moment, Don Draper, the fictional 60′s ad executive of AMC’s drama Mad Men? 3-martini lunches shameless womanizing a dark and mysterious past a great old-school shave Yeah, it’s the shave. But for me, shaving like a Mad Man is as much a [...]
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It’s the most popular seat in the house, but the toilet in my main floor bathroom was a mess. The tank cover was chipped up, it used obscene amounts of water to flush, and–despite my repair attempts–it often needed the handle jiggled to stop the tank fill. So I decided it was time to upgrade [...]
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It used to be that the only way to make an antique toilet use less water was to put a brick or two in the tank. It’s a nice idea, but sometimes the old toilets don’t work as well with a smaller flush volume than they were designed for. And if you have to flush [...]
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In my last post I described the repair I made to the shower valve in the main bath. As part of that process I accessed the bathroom plumbing chase for the first time. What I found there added some interesting information about the house’s past. The first thing I noticed was the bucket and [...]
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A little while back, I was experiencing signs of a worn out valve in my main floor tub/shower. The knob was getting difficult to turn and soon I started noticing evidence of a small leak that was damaging the ceiling of the basement below the valve. I opened up as much of the plumbing [...]
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I'm Josh and since 2005 I have shared home improvement stories and ideas from my family's Arts & Crafts bungalow in Minneapolis, MN. I'm trying to combine the best of 1923 with the best of the 21st century-- and I hope it won't take another 88 years to do it.
