We’ve always had a high ideal of re-using as much of the old house we tore down as possible, or giving it to others to reuse. To that end, is a nice story about the recycling of the old shed and fence that was behind the house. The shed and fence appear to have beenRead more about Turning old into new[…]
Add another crew to the ant farm we have going at the new house. The insulation team is on site and applying spray foam to the underside of the roof. There were here about a month ago, insulating the part of the roof that became inaccessible once we sheathed the roof, and now they areRead more about Spray foam insulation[…]
When we vacated the house on the property, and subsequently left it unattended at night and on weekends, we put up a security system using a combination of IP video cameras that record in various ways, and battery operated motion sensitive video cameras. The system has gotten its first real test in the last coupleRead more about Perp walk (security update)[…]
We’ve had on and off rain for the last month. But, now that we have a roof on and the last bit of concrete poured, it doesn’t matter much. Inside, the house is a hub of activity, with three trades working – plumbing, electrical, and HVAC. Builder Charlie calls this the ant farm. The plumbersRead more about The ant farm[…]
We’ve waited a long time to get a clear view of what our house will look like on the outside. While we’ve got some 2D hand drawn elevations, and a couple of renderings, they don’t really give the full picture of what the house will look and feel like. Now that most of the framingRead more about The outside of the house is coming into focus[…]
We struggled quite a bit scheduling the last little bits of concrete. The rain kept saturating the soil and created a lake where the back porch slab is supposed to go. As a result, we had to keep pumping out the water and eventually dig considerably deeper footings than we had planned on, to getRead more about The last bit of concrete, at last[…]