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no_hypocrisy

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1. When our family home caught fire in 2010,

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 06:40 AM

Dec 27

there was more smoke damage than fire damage.

My father had the plaster of the walls and ceiling taken out and replaced them with another covering of new plaster. (I talked him out of Chinese dry wall.) It would have been dangerous to retain the plaster as it soaked up the smoke.

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When our family home caught fire in 2010, no_hypocrisy Dec 27 #1

I recall a particulary close fire coprolite Dec 27 #2