Category Archives: Carpentry/Structure

…and work…

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Daniel Meyer

Go for it, you gotta set the pace and work. Okay, a line from a song I like. From a strange movie I like. (shrugs). Anyway, in keeping with our newly found 2011 Tradition of having absolutely no money whatsoever … Continue reading →

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Some roof work.

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Daniel Meyer

I had not intended on doing any roof work on this house myself. I’ve done roofs. I don’t like it. Under the best conditions…and even if you are in the best shape, it is hard, brutal, knee and back bruising … Continue reading →

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Why they fall down *slowly*…

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Yet more electrical work. Not much to show…as in “interesting pictures”. Basically I’ve been crawling through attics trailing yellow wire all behind me like some sort of giant mutant spider. *shudder* On second thought…strike that mental image…I do NOT want … Continue reading →

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Making a house…a home.

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

At what point does a house become a home? For us, and this house, it felt like home before we bought it…but that’s not really it. We still are using a lot of the furniture that came with it. Some … Continue reading →

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There be DOORS here!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

From this: There be DOORS here! The 3 inches of rain Saturday night and Sunday got in the way so I haven’t done the weather stripping or threshold yet…and I don’t have any door knob hardware…but by golly…DOORS! We’ve got … Continue reading →

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Starting to look…actually…like I’m accomplishing something!

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Sooo…window trimmed in…siding up…you’ll notice the bottom glass is clean…SO clean in fact, that air hose and extension cord pass right through it! (a situation I’ll possibly correct next weekend). I WILL have the French doors mounted next weekend… CUAgain, … Continue reading →

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Operation Cover Up–The Sequel

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

#title “Operation Cover Up–The Sequel” After much soul-searching, chasing moths out of my wallet, and other advanced avoidance techniques, we determined what we knew all along. The only right thing to side the utility room wall with was the round … Continue reading →

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Operation Cover Up

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

It’s like something right out of the seedy side of life. The kind of thing respectable (heh heh) people like me shouldn’t be involved in… Yeah, we paid money…a great deal of it…to acquire the merchandise and have it shipped … Continue reading →

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Utility room wall progress…

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Y’all may recall the utility room wall…badly constructed and falling out of this otherwise VERY solid house…that we had to rebuild. We are relocating the window and door whilst we are at it. Linky-thing Purists will be overjoyed that we … Continue reading →

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Stairway Windows (part 7)

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Alternate title: “Destruction, mayhem, windows.” Oooookayyy…a bit of a LONG overdue update here…sorry about that. Several things happened to put the window project on a back shelf. 1) I got the sills/etc rebuilt and water tight. 2) The worst window … Continue reading →

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