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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DD0716, post: 224122, member: 4339&quot;]About 60 years ago, my father jacked up the house to replace the &quot;beams&quot;, which were huge tree trunks in the basement, and he replaced them with steel beams and steel supports. Unfortunately, a lot of area of the walls developed huge cracks, some of them 20 feet long! Some of these cracks were like when tectonic plates shift up against and actually pass each other! That, along with the house being 140 years old, not knowing what can of worms I might open if I started removing old materials and replacing with sheetrock, plaster, etc., etc., and not wanting to make a restoration lifework out of it, I opted to cover the walls with PVC 2X2 foot glue up tiles, as well as go over the tile ceilings with them, which were not affected as the walls were by the lifting and re-settling. Here are some of the results using the PVC tile. I didn&#039;t mention the company I purchase these from because I&#039;m not sure if that would be considered advertising and be against board guidelines. I&#039;m going through the house, room by room, choosing a different pattern for each one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Taken from the living room looking into the main hallway: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]66657[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p>Main Staircase:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]66658[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sunroom (added sometime after 1925) ceiling done in pearl white &quot;tin-type&quot; style PVC. The walls are covered in TrafficMaster Carrera marble tile:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]66659[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Same for the adjoining kitchen. PVC white on the walls, TrafficMaster Carrera marble on the walls and cabinets: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]66660[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Kitchen walls (white PVC) and the marble cabinets: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]66661[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The gold and black figure in the sunroom window photo is the back of one of the statues in the front sunroom (Enclosed in the 1950s):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]66662[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>More of the front sunroom:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]66663[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A different &quot;marble&quot; tile used on the walls and the same Carrera marble tiles used for the winged lion&#039;s pedestal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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