HomeStars.com - Brian Sharwood - DemoCamp Toronto 21

Brian Sharwood presented HomeStars.com at DemoCamp Toronto 21 (July 28th, 2009; Velma Rogers Theatre, 333 Bloor Street East):


Feel free to click through to YouTube to see it in full-size HD.

Some good anecdotes, and the site functionality /sounds/ good, but there wasn't much in the way of a demo here. More demo, less presentation would have been good.

That said, I would check out the site if I needed some work done and wasn't going to do it myself.

Plaster Dust

The joys of owning an old home. We're taking down some older plaster walls that don't have enough integrity to bother repairing, and will be putting up drywall in their place. (Yeah, apparently some people think that's a shame, but it's certainly easier to deal with).

We've tarp'd what we can, and closed off some doorways with plastic, but ripping plaster apart creates a lot of dust, and there's very little you can do to keep it fully contained. It takes me near twenty-four hours to feel de-dusted, and then I'm back in with the respirator mask and the renovator's bar from Lee Valley, getting re-dusted.

Feel my pain. Better yet, come over and help, bring a truck, and take some of my plaster home with you as a souvenir!