The historic Chicago Greystone : a user's guide for renovating and maintaining your home.

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The historic Chicago Greystone : a user's guide for renovating and maintaining your home.

Publication:

Description:

109 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm

Series:

Greystone guide ; vol. 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The Greystone: No Ordinary Building -- A Case Study: The Story of One Greystone -- Investigating Your Creystone -- Greystone Structure: How It Stands Up -- Basic Systems: Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing -- Interior Detailing: Original Practices -- Greystone "Outback" -- Assessing Your Greystone -- Maintainer -- Fixer-upper -- Rehabber -- Total Cut -- Restoring/Renovating Your Creystone -- Moving the Walls: Variation on Plan -- Layouts -- Preserving the Stone -- The Facade, Improved -- The Porch -- Focus Front Facade: Upgrades and Improvements -- Focus Rear Facade: Commonly Overlooked Code Violations -- "Opening Up" -- Various Masonry Openings -- A Greystone Reborn -- Greystone "Outback" Revisited -- Interior Detailing: Contemporary Practices -- Staying Dry: Roof -- Staying Dry: Foundation -- Basics of Mechanical Systems -- Basics of Electrical Systems -- Basics of Plumbing Systems -- The Front Yard: Fitting into the Street, Incrementally -- The Rear Yard: Defining, Using Your Outdoor Room -- Additional Information -- Cracking the Codes -- Choosing a Contractor -- Recommended Specifications for a Green Building.

ISBN:

9780978965013 (paperback)
0978965019 (paperback)

Subject:

Dwellings Illinois Chicago Maintenance and repair.
Habitations Illinois Chicago Entretien et réparations.
Dwellings Maintenance and repair.
Stone houes Illinois Chicago Maintenance and repair
Stone houses Remodeling Illinois Chicago
Dwellings Remodeling Illinois Chicago
Illinois Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.

Added entries:

Wheeler, Dan.
Wheeler, Dan. editor
Wheaton, James editor
Chowdhury, Tasneem A., 1954- editor
Greystone guide ; vol. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306704
Call No.: BIB 252260
Status: Available

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