Summary
One of the biggest difficulties in renovating an older home is that most of the time, somebody else did it first.
Remodeling projects often involve dealing with poorly built additions that are decades old, bad or outdated wiring and plumbing, pockets of asbestos and mismatched materials.See the full content of this document
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Domestic Joys
But Chris and Gay Pollock had none of those problems when they added on to their mid-19th-century right-angle house on High Street in Salem, nearly doubling its size.
Gay Pollock said the house, which had belonged to Roanoke College for several decades and was used as the vice president's residence, appeared to be unchanged from its original design, aside from the addition of bathrooms, electrici...See the full content of this document
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