I pushed myself too hard last Thursday getting the water heater installed, and have felt under the weather ever since. I took a couple of days to relax and recover some. On Sunday, Rick , Matt and I finally cleaned up the tools and mess we left behind from the water heater project ( Read more... )

Both of the tenants in one of my two-family houses requested storm doors last year. We finally got around to building them a few weeks ago. I couldn't just buy ready-made aluminum doors because all of the doors were odd, non-standard, sizes. So, Rick and I custom built three wooden storm doors. My tenant, Steve, requested a storm door with ( Read more... )

A little over a year ago I wrote two posts about the past year's progress on the huge project I have undertaken to restore a mid-19th century brick store that I own. Here are the links to those posts ( Read more... )