A 28 foot drive way will definitely impact the stairwell bumpout and where I put the gate ( Read more... )

I had the whole weekend but did not complete phase one of the back gutter ( Read more... )

When I wrote the subject line "Long time project half-done" I ask myself--when will I be able to say completely done on anything ( Read more... )

The roof is finished for the backroom ( Read more... )

For almost 14 years the back room of our house has had a faulty roof. I had been willing to put up with it, thinking the whole thing would be re-built and replaced. However, I decided we will just try to improve it. It is a good place to start on reworking our house as it is literally an add-on so we can work on it pretty much independently of ( Read more... )

Service Electric put in switches to control the light in the back room and the outdoor light, put in a new outdoor light and new rocker switch. The old switch for the outdoor light was left where it was (It no longer controls anything) and the old conduit over the roof was removed along with the old light (I did not get to keep it ( Read more... )

To-day all three of our gutters were cleaned and, most importantly, the downspout on the south side was flushed of some clogging debris! Here one of the guys from Oregon Wash scrapes out the leaves and rust from the back roof gutter and the other guy, finished with his cleaning of the two main gutters, gets off the roof ( Read more... )

* Spending a little more on the mortgage closing costs to save some $6000 overall by locking in the mortgage today for the 2nd house at 4.6 percent APR. I always hated the idea of points...paying to get a lower interest rate...but it is worth it for a long term strategy ( Read more... )

If you think of the retaining wall in our front yard as a U, more than half of the U is complete. However, the finishing of the 2nd and 3rd tier on the fence line (requiring sawing a brick) and completing the top leaves more work to be completed ( Read more... )