More Stable Tales: The tack room and office disaster areas.
Continued from the previous two posts: The last two areas of the stables to be cleaned out were the office and old tack room. Both of these, unlike…
Category: Projects
More Stable Tales: More Messes
Continued from the last post: The stables finally got cleaned out thanks to a few laborers and a few dumpsters. While stalls one and two…
Saving the Stables
In late August/early September we had a team of guys here over two weekends to put a new roof on the stables. This was to…
Such Guilt
We have a lot of wildlife up here and a lot of it is small and fragile. Take the little guy pictured in the first…
Psst, want some pot(s)?
I got back on the stable clean-out project a few days ago. We already had a dumpster on the property as Agent Smith was working…
The Disemboweling of Purgatory, Part 4: Ducts
As noted in the previous posts, we had our furnaces tuned up and a new thermostat installed for one of them. The next step was getting…
Septic Day Remembered
A year ago today the septic tank was replaced. To commemorate the occasion, here are some unseen videos edited together to give an idea of…
The 1 Year List
So in a year and a bit, this is the list of major projects we have managed to complete. I consider it basically a score…
Fun With Math and Water
This is one of my summer projects: North wing: 24′ x 60′ South wing: 23′ x 48′ Great room: 26′ x 26′ Studio: 32′ x…
Spiders and earwigs and termites, oh my!
A few months back we discovered a termite funnel emanating from the electrical outlet above the washer and dryer. With much trepidation we called Planet…
New Project: Utility Closet
As we work our way down the list of things we need to address, the projects have become less dire and more detail-oriented. Instead of…
Water, Water Everywhere, Part 2: Softening the Water
Because our water comes from a hole in the ground, it is very hard–specifically, our calcium hardness rating on regular pool water tests puts us at…
Preparedness: We now have it.
When we lived in San Francisco, we had a small collection of items put together as our “just in case/disaster preparedness kit.” Basically it was…
Closet of Doom
When we moved in, we discovered one thing that neither the inspections nor the previous owners had noted: the fact that the closet off the great…
Final Blue Room Pics
Here are the before shots, followed by that shot or a similar one that was loaded into the Sherwin Williams Color Snap App for a messy mockup,…
And now we have a hot tub!
A few days ago I filled in the trench containing the buried electrical conduit, raked the river rocks into some semblance of ground cover, filled…
Hot Tub, Step 4 – Electrical
As mentioned in an earlier post, we’re in the process of replacing the antiquated hot tub that came with the house. Now that the deck…
The end of the purple
As written about earlier (here and here), the spare bedroom was an atrocious purple with lots of unsealed nail holes, screws embedded in the walls…
Purple Update
During spells of yecchy weather, I’ve been prepping the purple bedroom so it can be repainted. All the holes–and there were lots of them as…
Updated Floorplan
I tried the iOS app MagicPlan to build a better floorplan, as I wanted somewhat precise measurements for rooms/areas in the house. MagicPlan turned out…
Forgotten nugget of PO craptasm
I’ve been doing some cleanup, as we upload images for a post and then forget about them a lot of the time. I try to…
Purple…
It’s been somewhat rainy here at Purgatory–it is winter after all–so I have a second project starting that is completely indoors: repainting a room. Not just…
Next Project: Hot tub, Step 1
The house came with a hot tub. Like everything else here, though, it was fairly old (estimated age 35 years) and in need of attention. We…
One stall at a time
People that read the posts here know that we have a very large barn on the property. We found out from the Doc (the guy that had…
So many wood chips
The trash pile is gone, but a small pile of random garbage the previous owners had chucked into that space remained (first pic below). I…
Finished Fence Fotos
Try saying that title five times fast. Anyway, I realized I had uploaded a couple of pictures of the fully-assembled fences Agent Smith and his father…
A muddy start…
The grinders arrived this morning! We had serious rain last Monday and then again yesterday, which meant getting this new project underway took a bit…
Pools, hot tubs, and other watery updates
I’ve been working on lining up contractors for a couple of projects and thus have no big news to share. Instead I have a few random…
Looking back…
While mucking about, cleaning up the backend of Purgatory’s website this week, not only did I discover the scheduled publishing feature, but I also came…
The end of the little stable
Another of the eyesores on the property was a small three-sided stable built on the south side of the property. It too dates back to…
Dog House Down
One of the worst of the structural nuisances was the old dog shelter. Structurally unsound and downright dangerous, it needed to go. A great opportunity…
More Water Work and Coining a New Phrase
One of the smaller things on our list of house to-dos was to sort out the existing water softener. Because we’re on a well, we really…