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Welcome To The Barricades

French Revolution? I’ll start my own… Soo… you come home from work—after three hours of sleep—to see how the sheetrockers have done for the day. What you discover upon your arrival is that you’ve received a delivery from the City...

The Incredible Shrinking House

Smaller we seem, yes… If it’s all about how far you can see, suddenly, we can’t see from one room to the next. This makes the house suddenly seem smaller and makes it seem that the rooms are shrinking a wee bit. It’s not too small though....

Rock-it Man!

And now we have closure… Monday February 14th at 2:00 pm EST Dave Buckley, the City of Beacon’s building inspector, came and made the rounds at our house on the hill. He scratched a few more things off of his one page punch-list and gave us a smiling...

Insulation Installation

Can Sheetrock be far behind? Things have been rolling along rather nicely. Friday the insulation began. A crew of a few started putting batts in the ceiling of the second while someone went around plugging holes with fire caulking. (Now a New York State building code...

Fear And Insulation

Ducks in a row? Do we have all our ducks in a row? Soo… this is the tightest schedule that we’ve had during the entire process. Friday the insulators come and do their business. Monday we get an insulation inspection and the sheetrock will be delivered....