c. 1787 in West Greenwich, RI
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319 Sharpe St, West Greenwich, RI 02817
- 3 Bed
- 1.5 Bath
- 2059 Sq Ft
- 2 Ac.
Matt Patty Team, Century 21 Shoreline :: (401) 269-6169
Matt Patty Team, Century 21 Shoreline :: (401) 269-6169
Are the fires Photoshopped in? I seem to see pink Fiberglass insulation blocking one flu (pic 7). There is no smoke and no embers below either. Is this some kind of Witchery?
The answers that contingency inspections were made for. On a related note, the pic 26 bathroom has something boxed in from floor to ceiling, in the corner. I’d also be interested in the inspector’s comments about the visible electrical in the basement.
Otherwise, it’s a very beautiful and inviting house.
BAsed on what I can see, the basement wiring, the exposed piping in the piano room, The bathroom corner with that boxed in something (a drain?), the fiberglass insulation hanging out of the fireplace (why?), I’d be sure to get a very thorough home inspection done on this house, by someone who knows what they are doing. I think I’d also pay a good contractor to also go through it with me. Just in case there’s something that is not only going to be expensive to fix, but dangerous. I think I’d want two opinions here.
the kitchen, I’d figure some other place to put the stove and fridge. The stove is blocking part of the window-that just looks messy and odd. And, you need a counter space on both sides of the stove when you have more than one pot on the burners, and a pan in the oven. A fridge needs countertop on at least one side. But that’s all I’d do, there.
The sunroom-get that carpet out of there! It looks very out of place. I think either a canvas floorcloth, or a floor painted to look as if it has an area rug on it, would look charming.
The basement looks dry. Maybe a room down here?
With work, I think this house would be great!
The bathroom corner with that boxed in something
That room seems to be on the second floor. At first I thought it might be hiding a vent pipe but no such pipe can be seen protruding above the roof. Then I wondered if it might be hiding some electric wires to an overhead light. Can’t see the ceiling in that room.
Your advice to walk through the place with a good contractor is solid.
To some degree, that visible piping looks like the sort of thing people build an in-room raised platform to hide, usually under a newly added bathtub. But this piping runs across the ceiling of the room below it?
And herein lies the dilemma! How does one add a bathroom into a house that never had one in the first place? Keep in mind the ceiling we see between the beams is also the floor above! The house didn’t even have electrical to start with. How does one hide plumbing and electrical in a house that has few places to hide them? I think a good home inspector is always advisable, but it may well be that while what we see isn’t visually appealing, it’s done correctly!
One of my gripes is stoves without counter space, ditto refrigerator. You hit the nail on the head. No one seems to comment on the painted woodwork! Total descration!
It’s definitely period-correct to have painted woodwork. But this particular shade of something between pink and purple, which bears a remarkable semblance to Kelly’s banner above, not so much. 😀
I was waiting for some astute observer to comment on the woodwork itself, especially in that pink-purple room. It is beyond strange and I have never seen anything like it. Paneling on outside walls going halfway up between windows and capped by strange crowns? Vertical raised panels under some windows, horizontal under others? No rhyme or rhythm to any of it?
Nah. Perhaps someone scavenged a pile of paneling from a condemned library and cut and pasted in a not very aesthetic way in the 19th or 20th C.
We make a good team, Jim. I do the lazy idle speculation and you do the genuine academic investigation 😀
Perfection. Simple, pure, colonial perfection. PVC pipes, exposed wires and all! 😍
In older houses in the UK, it’s not unusual to see sewer lines on the outside of the house, painted to match the structure. Here they could (*gasp*) cover ye rustick beams with sheetrock and encase the PVC over the windows as an option.
I also thought that copper pipes would be an improvement. Perhaps it could be turned into folk art by soldering various artsey creations to it. I don’t have anything in particular in mind but that long horizontal length could have multi colored Buddhist prayer flags, made of tiny stained glass pieces. The trap could become a perch for some tiny figure. I’ve long thought it would be fun to have a genuine firehouse pole. Maybe that straight vertical section could be turned into a depiction of same.With minature me sliding down it.
In any case, I’d get rid of the plastic in favor of copper.
Are waste pipes made in copper? I don’t recall ever seeing any. Usually, PVC or cast iron are the choices but I haven’t dealt with this type problem in awhile.
They can be. Here’s some info.
–Copper Pipes
If your piping is the same color as a penny, you’ve got copper pipes. Copper piping made its first appearances in 1930-era homes and buildings, but the metal really gained traction during the 1960s, when homebuilders came to favor its properties over galvanized steel. The thinness of copper piping makes it smaller, lighter and easier than steel when it comes to maintenance work. Thanks to its strength, durability and heat resistance, copper piping seldom causes problems in homes built within the last 30 years.
Nonetheless, copper does have its share of drawbacks. In some of the earlier-built homes with this type of piping, the presence of lead solder around the fittings can be an issue. [Pipes which supply drinking water are now required to use lead-free solder.] Recent price hikes on copper have rendered maintenance on the piping more expensive than other plumbing work. As time wears on, the orangey brown hue of copper gives way to the effects of oxidation, which renders the surface darker and sometimes greenish in appearance. [Or what we would call the attractive natural patina of verdigris.]
https://www.mrrooter.com/greater-syracuse/about-us/blog/2016/july/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-home-dr/
If the rest of the line, the non visible part, is PVC, copper piping can be connected to it with an adapter.
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