Our tarpaper shack has more tar paper than yours

[Shadow]

Pulled the windows out in the kitchen and enlarged the hole for bigger windows and found the house was originally board and batten then the batten was removed and the old brick sideing put on it was gray brick pattern tar paper like roofing shingles, then that was covered years later with the same stuff but brown in color, then that was covered latter with the same stuff but green in color, then a layer of insulation board and then aluminium siding.
Bet my shack has more tar paper than yours.

[brewswain]

You win.
Thread over

[CamM]

My house probably has housewrap on it, so yeah.

[Jim-mi]

OK . . here we go . . .<Can You Top This>





............No..........

;o;

[clovis]

Funny story about tar paper, at least to me.

I used to go to our college homecoming every year. There is a particular woman that I graduated with, that loves to pump herself up with the belief that she has one the best jobs on earth. She takes pride in knowing that her career is 'way better' and more important than everyone else. She will also sweetly try to pry your salary out of you as well.

This is a woman that I have heard say many times "I would not even consider dating a man that made less than $100,000 a year." (Maybe this is why you are still single at the age of 41?)

So, several years in a row, despite the fact that I owned a thriving and successful printing business, I told her I drove a "tar paper truck".

You could see the delight gleaming in her eyes when I told her that it "paid $8.50 an hour, and the bossman said I might work up to $9 if I could make an entire year without having an accident."

I went on and on, laying it on thick about the "demand for tar paper these days" and "tar paper is a huge business, and I am in on the ground floor of it."

She is maybe one of the most shallow human beings I have ever met.

At least I got a kick out of it.

Clove

[||Downhome||]

you make it hard to keep up with the "jone's" shadow. I now have something to aspire to! lol

[grannygardner]

Shadow, your house sounds like one I grew up in. One thing about that tarpaper shingle siding, it didn't let much cold air in.

[Macybaby]

Well, I might be able to win the "most wallpaper" contest. I seriouly think that was what kept the plaster on the walls in some rooms. I think the most was either 7 or 9 layers of wallpaper.

We removed all the tar paper when we resided the house. Most of it was pretty decomposed. Now we have housewrap, and a lot less drafts LOL!!

Cathy

[Marie04]

Originally Posted by clovis

Funny story about tar paper, at least to me.

I used to go to our college homecoming every year. There is a particular woman that I graduated with, that loves to pump herself up with the belief that she has one the best jobs on earth. She takes pride in knowing that her career is 'way better' and more important than everyone else. She will also sweetly try to pry your salary out of you as well.

This is a woman that I have heard say many times "I would not even consider dating a man that made less than $100,000 a year." (Maybe this is why you are still single at the age of 41?)

So, several years in a row, despite the fact that I owned a thriving and successful printing business, I told her I drove a "tar paper truck".

You could see the delight gleaming in her eyes when I told her that it "paid $8.50 an hour, and the bossman said I might work up to $9 if I could make an entire year without having an accident."

I went on and on, laying it on thick about the "demand for tar paper these days" and "tar paper is a huge business, and I am in on the ground floor of it."

She is maybe one of the most shallow human beings I have ever met.

At least I got a kick out of it.

Clove

That is funny, Clove... It just makes me smile to think of it.. I can picture her listening to you, feeling all superior..and yet, CLUELESS ..

[PhilJohnson]

Shadow you may win the most tar paper but I'll beat you on most carpet. While tearing out the old stinky carpets I found 3-4 layers of carpet in almost every room! Then I found out that years ago there was a woman that kept goats in the house. No wonder why it smells so bad!

[Marie04]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Pulled the windows out in the kitchen and enlarged the hole for bigger windows and found the house was originally board and batten then the batten was removed and the old brick sideing put on it was gray brick pattern tar paper like roofing shingles, then that was covered years later with the same stuff but brown in color, then that was covered latter with the same stuff but green in color, then a layer of insulation board and then aluminium siding.
Bet my shack has more tar paper than yours.

We were remodeling one of our rental houses a few years ago, and found a window that had been left in place in the wall when a tub enclosure had been installed.. covered with T-111 on the outside. no insulation!

the surprises you find, when you start remodeling!!!

OH, but we also found that the original house was log, and we left one of the interior walls exposed so that beautiful chinked log could been seen.. My hubby paneled the rest of the interior with pine... it is such a cute little cottage now..

if only we could find and keep good renters. gah.

[Marie04]

Originally Posted by PhilJohnson

Shadow you may win the most tar paper but I'll beat you on most carpet. While tearing out the old stinky carpets I found 3-4 layers of carpet in almost every room! Then I found out that years ago there was a woman that kept goats in the house. No wonder why it smells so bad!

Oh, Lordy! that takes all!! Carpet - icky!!

[Batt]

We bought the house behind us a few years (and a couple of moves) ago. Mainly we wanted the back ½ of the huge lot, but the OLD house came as part of the property. So we decided to renovate the OLD house for a rental unit. I started the renovation with a chainsaw.

As we were removing old wallpaper to put in new sheet rock, we found 10 to 12 layers of wallpaper. Many layers were actually old newspapers, some dating prior to WWII. It kinda slowed down progress as we kept finding really interesting articles to read.

[peanutgreen]

Our house had 4 layers of wallpaper and linoleum. It looked like they added new every 20 years or so.

[Ravenlost]

Ummm...I once stripped an iron bed that had 13 coats of paint on it. Some pretty hideous colors too!

[Junkmanme]

Originally Posted by clovis
Funny story about tar paper, at least to me.

I used to go to our college homecoming every year. There is a particular woman that I graduated with, that loves to pump herself up with the belief that she has one the best jobs on earth. She takes pride in knowing that her career is 'way better' and more important than everyone else. She will also sweetly try to pry your salary out of you as well.

This is a woman that I have heard say many times "I would not even consider dating a man that made less than $100,000 a year." (Maybe this is why you are still single at the age of 41?)

So, several years in a row, despite the fact that I owned a thriving and successful printing business, I told her I drove a "tar paper truck".

You could see the delight gleaming in her eyes when I told her that it "paid $8.50 an hour, and the bossman said I might work up to $9 if I could make an entire year without having an accident."

I went on and on, laying it on thick about the "demand for tar paper these days" and "tar paper is a huge business, and I am in on the ground floor of it."

She is maybe one of the most shallow human beings I have ever met.

At least I got a kick out of it.

Clove



Clovis, I LOVE your Sense of Humor!
A person has to BE CAREFUL talking to someone like you!

Ha-Ha!
Junkmanme

[hotzcatz]

You can drive your tar paper truck over to my house! I want some of those tar paper shingles to put on the weather side of our house and we haven't been able to find any green ones or any of those brick looking ones anywhere around here. Just boring gray or dark brown three tab roof shingles. It is an old board and batten house. The boards are 12" wide, 1" thick rough sawn vertical boards with a batten between each board on the inside and the outside of the house. There's a belly band on the inside but not on the outside, how weird is that? When there was a crack in a board, they just nailed a batten across it. It isn't the most weather proof house and it would be nice to get some of those shingles so when the rain comes sideways it will stay dry inside.

Oh well, at least it's rain and not snow, huh?

[Trixters_muse]

I have a 1929 bungalo I have been remolding bit by bit since I moved in 9 years ago and let me tell ya, I have found some crazy stuff! You have me beat on the tarpaper, but under the 80's shag carpet we found that tar paper type floor covering which was covering the original hardwood floors. We stripped 8 layers of paint off the baseboards and other wood trim and have uncovered at least 4 old light fixtures and power outlets. When we were putting in the new sub floor in the bathroom, we discovered the old one had been made out of an old door, two banana crates and some scrap lumber. The tub wall had bee insulated with TAR PAPER!

[sammyd]

Not tarpaper but as I was pulling off shingles on our porch/utility room roof I got a surprise.
1 layer of shingles, 1 layer of 3/4" plywood, then 3 more layers of shingles, then a layer of shakes.

[kjmatson]

Originally Posted by Ravenlost

Ummm...I once stripped an iron bed that had 13 coats of paint on it. Some pretty hideous colors too!

Sounds like a dresser I did one time. Took a week to get all the layers of paint and shellac off that poor thing LOL. It looked nice when I was done though.