Comments on: What Have You Found While Remodeling?

By: oldbeer@gmail.com

oldbeer@gmail.com — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:25:49 +0000

I just finished paying 400 to a remodeler in Boston that found a single quart beer can (with a spout type top-it was once sealed with a bottle cap)during a house tear down.If you find any old CANS,i’ll help you finance your remodel job.

By: pat c.

pat c. — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:15:09 +0000

We were tearing out the floor of a basement bathroom and found three things. A Green River Whiskey token, a turkey wing skeleton, and a deer leg bone. I was afraid that the leg bone was human and relieved to find out it wasn’t!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:17:21 +0000

We bought a 1900-built home from a lady who’d lived it in for almost half a century. It has lots quirks, like “hilly’ living room floor, linoleum over carpet, and in our clean-up and reno, we’ve discovered a whole pantry of 20-year-old pickled corn, beets, dry jams, and the like. We have also found perfume bottles, an old radio, odd tools, a silver-plate tray from a hotel in Baltimore that looks like someone couldn’t find an ash tray and a gold-plate spoon with a Hindu goddess. And that’s without ripping up any of the weird flooring or walls!

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:58:37 +0000

while tearing out our super-ugly kitchen cabinets, we found a note tucked above them that read “you should’ve seen the place ‘before’ we remodeled it”.
also, after we had the new countertop installed, but before it was sealed up against the wall, my just-taken passport photo fell behind it. it can’t be retrieved without removing the countertop and cabinets. so the next people to remodel our kitchen will at least know what i look like!

By: Lin Haraway

Lin Haraway — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:10:23 +0000

While tearing out the walls of our recently bought 1929 house, we found 3 bird skeletons, 4 squirrel nests and an almost perfect squirrel skeleton in the walls.

By: Dazie

Dazie — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:28:37 +0000

The crew who leveled my 1914 cottage found a pig skill under the living room floor. In a current remodel, I found a floral apron used to chink a drafty corner, also, beer cans in the wall.

By: Pootchka

Pootchka — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:52:24 +0000

If you want to read an interesting tale of what can be found while remodeling, look into the Hartford Courant website or even google and enter Dr. Reardon, St. Francis Hospital and West Hartford CT.

You cant hide things forever.

By: gayle

gayle — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:40 +0000

My mother worked for an old codger who owned a large car dealership back in the early 70s. He was always drunk and had a large red nose but no one ever saw him drinking. When the building was torn down, imagine everyone’s surprise when the walls around this guy’s office rained empty whiskey bottles behind them!

By: Manuel

Manuel — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:53:31 +0000

This year my wife and I had a house built. During the construction process, we carved our names into one of the wall studs before the sheet rock process began. It was pretty romantic, and our names will forever be written in our house.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:41:20 +0000

Maybe that’s just how Toby sweats? Do turtles sweat?