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Posted by readandpostrosie on August 18, 2007, 9:51 am
if that is all you found in the cavities between the wall, you are lucky!
i am use to finding all sorts of crap....................ie: beer cans
nailed to the 2x4 etc.
>I took down a couple of pieces of beat-up sheetrock and found that many of
>the cavities were almost completely full of pieces of sheetrock.
>
> Any good reason why a builder (or remodeler, perhaps) would have done
> this? The only thing I can think of is that it saved them the trouble of
> carting the offcuts away and perhaps paying to dump them.
>
> I suppose they haven't been doing any harm, but they are a pest if I want
> to install an old-work outlet box in a section of wall where I do not
> remove the sheetrock.
>
> Perce
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Posted by aemeijers on August 18, 2007, 4:27 pm
> if that is all you found in the cavities between the wall, you are lucky!
> i am use to finding all sorts of crap....................ie: beer cans
> nailed to the 2x4 etc.
>
>
>
Now THAT is an old construction-site tradition, related to the name and year
written on the back side of a rafter or something. A hammer-swinger's Kilroy
Was Here. I've found name and year notes from as long ago as 1915. (I always
favored name and year scratched into the freshly poured footers, in a spot
like the crawlspace where they might be found.)
aem sends....
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Posted by Oren on August 18, 2007, 4:40 pm
wrote:
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>> if that is all you found in the cavities between the wall, you are lucky!
>> i am use to finding all sorts of crap....................ie: beer cans
>> nailed to the 2x4 etc.
>>
>>
>>
>Now THAT is an old construction-site tradition, related to the name and year
>written on the back side of a rafter or something. A hammer-swinger's Kilroy
>Was Here. I've found name and year notes from as long ago as 1915. (I always
>favored name and year scratched into the freshly poured footers, in a spot
>like the crawlspace where they might be found.)
>
>aem sends....
>
I like it when tools are a found :) I just signed the back piece of
wood flooring going on glue (never seen again), but heck it was fun.
I know in the '70s sheet rock was often thrown into the cavity. If
you have a house that old around Disney in Orlando - chances are you
will find some in the walls. I'm guilty of doing it.
--
Oren
"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens
constantly."
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Posted by Robert Allison on August 18, 2007, 5:05 pm
aemeijers wrote:
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>>if that is all you found in the cavities between the wall, you are lucky!
>>i am use to finding all sorts of crap....................ie: beer cans
>>nailed to the 2x4 etc.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Now THAT is an old construction-site tradition, related to the name and year
> written on the back side of a rafter or something. A hammer-swinger's Kilroy
> Was Here. I've found name and year notes from as long ago as 1915. (I always
> favored name and year scratched into the freshly poured footers, in a spot
> like the crawlspace where they might be found.)
>
> aem sends....
>
>
What we do is leave something in the walls for people to find.
We always try to leave a series of coins (penny, nickel,
dime, quarter) that are the current year. That should give
whoever finds it a clue as to when the work was done. If we
come up with anything cool or unusual, we will leave that in
there too. We will write our names and how much we are making
per hour on a board and leave it in the wall, too. This comes
from finding evidence of this in walls, written on studs and
such. My favorite was from an old house here in Austin where
a carpenter had figured his hours for the week. He had 37
hours at 32 cents per hour. Paycheck for the week was $11.84
before taxes, although that may have been before income tax
was started.
This last project we left a bent tri-square and a couple of
matchbox cars that we found in the street by the jobsite.
--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX
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Posted by Oren on August 18, 2007, 7:00 pm
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:05:29 GMT, Robert Allison
>We always try to leave a series of coins (penny, nickel,
>dime, quarter) that are the current year.
This was described about older tradesmen; from years ago. They left
small denomination coins.
The show: _If Walls Could Talk_ tells; stories of blueprints and
photographs being found and how they left coins for the future.
One bottle of wine could not be consumed, but it was stored in the
wall/attic space.
--
Oren
"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens
constantly."
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