Month: May 2018

The basement has been cleared, and everything stowed in the gym or the storage area at the end.  Once the frame has been erected, the boiler

As the concrete truck was leaving, it accidentally dragged the Verizon cable off the house.  No Internet means no working from home, no TV, no video

Chris from the AV Guys has brought us a couple of webcams that work with the rest of our Control4 system.  We’ve attached one to the

The concrete truck has arrived, and the prepared trenches are filled.      Note the two back cables in the featured image above – and read

Several days of relentless rain, but work carries on!

Working with a shovel and a mechanical digger, the footings appear quite quickly – and immediately collect the rain.    

The bedroom floor is gradually disappearing, and you can now see down into the kitchen:   How’s this for convenient access between kitchen and bedroom work

With the blue tarp still in pace to keep out the rain, a wooden frame is built and the interior roofline restored.  

The master bathroom and guest bathroom have been completely stripped back, and you can now see straight through one to the other. The bathroom fixtures are

Taking down the chimney took much more time than expected, as it had been filled with concrete.  The guys were up this crane for over a

Not sure I had fully processed how much demolition was going to take place. The kitchen floor is being completely removed, and new foundations laid.

As the basement bathroom approaches demolition, a portapotty is delivered.  It matches the skip perfectly!