A Trip to the Auction House
Way back early on after buying this place Agent Smith and I discussed ways to furnish it that did not…
Category: Projects
Battery Backup: Hosed
The one casualty of the power wall project was the post that held the reel for a hose we use…
Battery Backup: The Install
As detailed in the previous post, we decide to forgo installing a big diesel generator to provide backup power and…
Battery Backup: Understanding the Pieces
One of the annoying things about living halfway up a mountain is that we do lose power more often than…
Mirror Mirror
As mentioned in the last post, the 3D printer helped with a recent crafty project that I created for the…
When in doubt, just print it
It’s been two years now since we bought our first 3D printer. Based upon a recommendation of a friend, we…
Exterior Tidying
The winter rains did not show up in December 2018 and we were able to get our favorite painter in…
Insulating Ourselves
When we finished off the furnace project and then the plumbing project that followed it, we knew we wanted to…
Flooring: All done and time for before and after
First off the damaged area by the sliding glass door in the upstairs of the great room. Then the damaged…
Click — Lock
While the teak repairs were happening here, another guy who specializes in repairing and installing the type of flooring we…
Teaky Teak
Before the teak that runs through most of the main areas of the house could be refinished a lot, and…
My Grandmother’s Cedar Chest
Since I’m one of only two grandchildren on my father’s side of the family, when it came time to help…
Craiglist, Chicago and Lumber Liquidators
It’s been a while since regular posts have been going up, and even though we’re under a shelter in place…
In the Teak-y Room
The house here, which was built in the late 60s has teak parquet flooring throughout the main living areas which…
Another Tail of Fencing
When we purchased this place we knew the previous owners had the place on the market in 2012 and then…
Drain Videos
When Able Sewer and Drain came to repipe the drains in the north wing, another member of their team came…
More Plumbing Woes
When the furnace project was going on in May of 2018, one of the guys from Ventwerx spotted something awry…
Chimneys Be Gone
Once the old diesel furnaces were removed from service, (if you haven’t read that saga you can start with the…