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I think someone cheated on this week's (bi)weekly poll. Either that or we have a lot of non-renovators reading the blog. I say this because I find it hard to believe that we had 38 responses (57%) of "No projects - doesn't apply" to the question "How
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Last week we asked readers "How long have you owned your home?" 7 readers (21%) are still getting acquainted with their new homes, having been with them for less than a year. 9 readers (26%) have been in their homes for 1 or 2 years. The majority of us
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Faithful readers may have noticed that there was no new poll last week. Mostly this was because we were busy renovating, and didn’t have time for the blog. Or anyone’s blog for that matter – I’m pretty far behind catching up on my favorites… Two weeks
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My plea last week for folks to vote must have had some small effect: 43 votes this week compared to 24 the week prior. Thanks, everyone! For the most part, we’re all in our respective homes for the long haul. 42% wont even consider moving, and 21% are
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I seem to have broken my routine of updating the Weekly Poll on Sunday mornings. Weekends have become days for early rising and long hours spent preparing the house for our new boiler system. This leaves very little time for browsing the Internet. We
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Well, we aren’t performing brain surgery as we work on our respective projects – at least in the regards to orderliness of the operating room. Nearly a third of us have "Good Intentions" when it comes to keeping our work area tidy and clean, but if you’re
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Gah. We got so much done this weekend that this Weekly Poll post is late. Normally I do the Weekly Poll while lying in bed with my coffee on Sunday mornings. This weekend I didn’t get to the computer even once. I must not have done a great job picking
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We sure spend a lot of time working on our houses! Nearly a quarter of us spend between 16 and 20 hours a week doing everything from hard-core demolition to fixing up the yard. A few people are working full time, spending 40 or more hours per week. Do
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I’m almost too exhausted to write this weeks poll. Too much time working on the house this weekend. Actually, a lot of time, but I’d be happy if the weekend kept on going. Most people in last week’s poll chose what I intended to be the most expensive
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No big surprises this week, at least from my point of view. Nearly 40% of us are living in houses that have recently had, or are pending, their 100-year birthday. 22% of us live in pre turn-of-the-century homes – wow! 22% are in homes built between 1920
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Last week's question asked “How old were you when you first learned some basic carpentry skills?” We found that a majority of us (38%) learned to swing a hammer at a very young age, before we were 6 years old. Another group (42%) learned to pound nails
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Here are the results of last week's poll : nearly a quarter of us (23%) are funding our projects paycheck-to-paycheck, and nearly half of us (48%) are using a combination of savings and income. Five folks (16%) are using any and all means to get cash
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WOW – thanks to a mid-week splurge we had 39 votes this week! The poll results are mixed: the most common first remodeling project is painting, at 28%. A few of us (15%) have been busy ensuring our houses won’t fall down, and an equal number decided to
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We're midway through the week here, with only 15 votes... Come on lurkers, it's up to you! Click, click, is all it takes. If you vote 'Other', leave a comment and let us know what your first renovation project was. Even if you haven't started your projects
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The results are in! Nearly half of us (48%) are young and hip - 30 and under, and the greater half (53%) of us are older, wiser, and clearly still hip. None of us are mathematicians and so none of us will realize that the total adds up to 101%. (I’ll
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