21 year old son and fiancee choosing Rural Living over apartment in town.

[crashz]

Congrats to your whole (and extending) family!
The shop out front has a lot of character, from the signs and old Pepsi machine to the weathers siding. Just a really cool place to be able to work on your stuff and enjoy country life! Best of luck to the newlyweds!

 

[Industrial Toys]

It can be very challenging. I remember when I moved here, I had trouble affording a push mower. An old GF lived in a (rented) Chalet out in the country. She paid a guy to blow her driveway. One winter it never stopped snowing, and I remember, one day alone. the guy came three times at maybe a hundred dollars a clearing! Many people, just can't come up with the money it takes to live in a civilzed manner in the country.

 

[Stimw]

If you go to google maps- Google Maps

and enter the address then scroll in close, then click on the little square in the bottom L corner and you get the satellite view.
I have used this a lot, sometimes if I am going to a place that I have not been I will look first to get my bearings.
When I bought my current property I needed to send a wire transfer to a lawyer in Miami. I looked at the map and even the street view to see if it looked fishy!

 

[japody]

If you go to google maps- Google Maps

and enter the address then scroll in close, then click on the little square in the bottom L corner and you get the satellite view.
I have used this a lot, sometimes if I am going to a place that I have not been I will look first to get my bearings.
When I bought my current property I needed to send a wire transfer to a lawyer in Miami. I looked at the map and even the street view to see if it looked fishy!

I use Google Earth Pro. It's free and works great. You can even see previous pics that have been taken over the years. I use that a lot for comparisons. It also has other features that you can use to measure distance and area. Really useful.

 

[coldsteelva]

Sorry for my delay. Google Maps is exactly how I located the property. You provided a street side picture which included the numeric on the garage. You also provided the jurisdiction. I did a quick recon of all the local addresses with that numeric until I located the appropriate Google StreetView image. Then I toggled to satellite view, and took a screen grab (Windows Snipping Tool, included in Windows) and then used Paint (down and dirty) to crop down to only the property in question. I also eliminated any geographic/street indicators, so the image can stand alone and not give any indication of where it really is.

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[Gale Hawkins]

Thanks ColdSteelVA for the details.

They have loaded 4 of the smaller 12 Cubic Yard dumpsters so the place is starting to have neutral look at least. I have the car lift working full range now but plan to pull the rack off to paint and fix a couple missing grade 8 bolts before we load with a vehicle. It is loaded with about 300 pounds. The lift has set raised about 2' for the past decade so I had to work on some rough spots but all is well and the 10W-40 High Mileage oil now coating the surface makes it slick. Got it down and found the bleed screw so now I just have to clean out the hole so I can get to the bleeding screw.

 

[fried1765]

Thanks ColdSteelVA for the details.

They have loaded 4 of the smaller 12 Cubic Yard dumpsters so the place is starting to have neutral look at least. I have the car lift working full range now but plan to pull the rack off to paint and fix a couple missing grade 8 bolts before we load with a vehicle. It is loaded with about 300 pounds. The lift has set raised about 2' for the past decade so I had to work on some rough spots but all is well and the 10W-40 High Mileage oil now coating the surface makes it slick. Got it down and found the bleed screw so now I just have to clean out the hole so I can get to the bleeding screw.

I just love this story of your son and his wife to be!
Exciting times!

 

[Gale Hawkins]

The project of removing the old "polluted" insulation is starting to get in/under my skin so to speak. Taking the thin paneling off the walls is not that hard. It turned out the ceiling tile are mounted on plywood so to clean/inspect/rewire/insulate there is going to be more of a task. I am thinking of getting down one 4x8' sheet and come up with a plan based on what we find. The son finishes at the junior college in 4 weeks so things will move faster then.

After they stopped yesterday they sat in the old front porch swing contently for a while. It really is a peaceful place since most traffic is about a 1/2 mile north on the new faster four lane. After seeing them yesterday still excited about cleaning and redeeming the old place increased my energy level to help as much as possible on the house and let the heavy stuff in the shop wait its turn. September will be here soon.

I did get an old shop vac over there yesterday because I remember we burned up a few doing our clean up years ago. Insulation dust is "true grit". After they left for the day I used it to clean out hole on the car lift containing the bleeding valve and when ahead and ordered the set of male/female square sockets since it turned out to be square 7/16" male and not 3/8 or 1/2".

 

[cat fever]

Good for them, living in the country is the way to do it. IMHO they and their future kids will be so much happier.

 

[aczlan]

I did get an old shop vac over there yesterday because I remember we burned up a few doing our clean up years ago. Insulation dust is "true grit".

Take a 5 gallon bucket and a short piece of flexible hose. Find what size PVC that the shopvac hose fits into, then make a water dirt trap (coupling, then a long piece of PVC to the bottom of the bucket for the inlet from the hose, coupling, then an elbow for the outlet to the shop vac).
Then dirt coming in has to go through the long tube, into 3-4" of water, then out to the shop vac.
It works great for sheetrock dust and should work for your insulation dust.

Aaron Z