Wow, our designer Jessica has been working her tail off. In the past month, quite a bit has happened. Appliances We’ve selected all our appliances and have an appliance package now. Knowing the appliance specifics matters quite a bit to the plumbers and electricians (see more about that below). Plumbing fixtures While we chose allRead more about Much progress on the interior design[…]
For us, building a house is a very personal thing, and nothing is more personal than our relationship with our builder Charlie. I’ve known Charlie for 25 years, and he is probably the only person I would trust to build us a house. I am a big fan of breakfast – bacon, sausage, eggs, theRead more about Eggtastic[…]
I thought I’d mention a bit about site security. Construction sites make attractive targets for theft because of the abundance of valuable raw materials, like copper pipe, and expensive tools. For the first 10 or so months of construction, we were living in the old house at the back of the property. Living on siteRead more about Site security[…]
The history of the old house on our lot has always been shrouded in mystery. From the historical report, we knew in general that construction was done on certain dates, and in some cases what in general was done (second story added) but we haven’t really known what part of the house was built when,Read more about The real history of the old house[…]
On Sunday night we had another smallish rain storm, and got a bout 1/2 inch over 6-8 hours. Not much by any standard but enough to get everything thoroughly wet and create large puddles in the basement. We were more prepared this time and were able to mitigate the water quickly. Last time, we sweptRead more about More rain[…]
The excavators did a bunch of over-excavation of the area that will be the garage and driveway. The idea is that to insure proper equal settling under the entire span of a structure, you remove a bunch of soil, and then put it back all at equal soil compaction. To do this, they remove soilRead more about Soil compaction[…]