Our Home Renovation

The other day when I posted about the mysteries of the Sheridan House, I forgot about the weirdest one…

When we started tearing out the wall around the tub, there was something furry poking out. A friend that was helping me reached into the hole in the wall and jumped back quickly. He thought it was something dead. Turns out that they insulated the pipes with fur! It’s really weird because out of all the pipes in the house, the only ones that were insulated at all were the pipes going from the tub faucet up to the shower head. There were lots of long, sewn together strips of some kind of soft brown fur wrapped around the pipes. I don’t know that much about old plumbing practices, but I’ve never heard of such a thing.

I could understand a little more if it were, say, a farmhouse built in the 1800s and they used the resources that were available to them at the time. This bathroom, though, was added around 1936 (they had an outhouse previously) and it’s in a little cottage in the middle of town. Strange indeed. Another mystery that is yet unsolved.

Inspired by Toby over at 649 6th, I will be posting to this blog 30 times in the next 30 days. It’s been so long since I’ve faithfully updated, yet we’re doing SO much house stuff right now. It’s crunch time at the Sheridan house, as we’re hoping to be finished in about 5 weeks (before labor day). So, starting tomorrow, we’ll start the 30-count and see where it takes us. In the mean time, I uploaded a bunch of photos of the basement at the Sheridan House, including the new PEX plumbing system (It’s awesome - I want to do more of it!).