Cars slowing down to get a good look at our house is a pretty frequent occurrence. It seems that 30-50% of pedestrians that pass by our house slow down or stop for a good look. If we are outside, people often stop and tell us how much they like our house, including people in cars.Read more about Curb appeal[…]
In addition to the landscape main irrigation lines being installed and buried last week, we checked on more piece of flat work off our list – the stretch of gutter along our old driveway entrance. All the sandstone curb was moved from the side of the old driveway mouth, (the curved parts), and the newRead more about In the gutter[…]
Now comes the fun part, trying to get the insurance company to properly reimburse us for the damage the plumbing leak caused. A particular point of contention are the personal items. Insurance companies don’t want to pay for something new. In cases like this, they claim to reimburse for cash value of the affected items. Read more about More plumbing leak damage – personal property[…]
It has been a long road to recovering from the catastrophic plumbing leak that occurred two months ago due to our plumbers over-tightening a plastic fitting. For starters, the leak itself turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg when it came to our plumbing issues. We had another plumber come and inspectRead more about Pluming leak update[…]
After laying all the drainage pipes all over the yard, filling in the trenches, and roughly grading the property, the next step was to dig another set of yet shallower trenches for the irrigation piping. The irrigation starts where the water main hits the house. From there, the landscaping water goes through the backflow stack.Read more about Irrigation water![…]
A property like ours is required to collect any water runoff and put it through some earthen filtration before we can dump it out into the storm drain system. Over the last two weeks the landscapers have dug large trenches around the property for the drainage system. These are pretty massive 6 inch lines thatRead more about Drainage and grading[…]
There wasn’t much about our old house that was worth saving. We recycled a few light fixtures and saved some of the old windows as art but that’s about it. However, we did manage to pull out quite a bit of really nice old growth redwood. To day we had delivery of an outdoor diningRead more about Making old into new[…]