I need to move the water heater over to a basement window location after I tear the fire escape down and level the ground by the window. That might take a year. The reason this is vented here is because there was a huge hole in the wall at this location for what I believe was a chimney for a coal furnace. There is no point in putting in any additional holes. I have to caulk around the black sheet metal but had to allow some stucco work to dry that makes it sit flush with the limestone foundation. There were two other holes in this wall where the air conditioning units fed into the furnaces. They were quite sizable (half a brick) and plugged with lots of 1960s era caulk. I inserted some 1.5" PVC pipe to preserve a hole for a water line and one for an electric socket, then patched around them.
I also cleaned up this mess;
It now looks like this.
I can pour a concrete sidewall in increments and a then work on the other side eventually ending up with basement doors that look something like this;
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Then I have to find a project for all that limestone. Maybe I'll make a trebuchet and hurl them at my bad neighbors!
3 comments:
Maybe you could lob them at the crackhead that tries to get into your 1st floor window!
Trebouchet! Yesss!!! Can I join in? Maybe implement my idea for a propane-powered potato gun.
What? You have limestone to give away? I'll be right up.
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