Our continuous flashing between the vertical wall and exterior of the 1908 house and the beginning of the roof for the backroom roof, needs kickout flashing to redirect water at the end of the cotinuous flashing back to the roof so water can flow down the roof to the gutter ( Read more... )

I have now cleared the area by the rain barrels and the wood from the north side yard up to the heat exchanger ( Read more... )

Got some time out from work because it was a nice day. I did a little clean up in the back yard and located where my drywell should go. In all I spent 3 1/2 hours outside ( Read more... )

Something for which we have been waiting weeks: a roof has now been added to our backroom! I would be very happy if it were not for our missing Eddie. This allows us to have the electrical work done, then the insulation, then the drywall, then all the finishing work ( Read more... )

Looked back yesterday through posts on Bacefook in 2023. So much as changed, both at work, in the community and for the backroom ( Read more... )

An episode of This Old House I was watching this past week showed them using TSP to clean grease and grime off old wood ( Read more... )

Here is my attempt to document House60 projects since 1999 with links ( Read more... )

Not quite as sunny to-day, but no rain and partly sunny ( Read more... )

The unique flowering plant on the fence line along the way from the parking lot to where I work was trampled yesterday. There was a fire drill which funneled hundreds, maybe thousands of people into the lot and somehow the plant was smashed to the ground and one of its major branches was ripped ( Read more... )

Yesterday I cut out all the vegetation to a fairly good base and to-day resloped the base to meet the end of the side yard walkway. Then I cleaned some bricks by the sandpaper brick to brick method and pushed the walkway toward the drive way a few courses (a course is nine-bricks ( Read more... )