by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 14, 2004 | HousePosts
Of the 21st century… Brian Donahue, sculptor, carpenter extraordinaire, and former cowboy, has flown in from California and begun to lay in the the stringers for the first set of stairs. He’s freezing his rear-end off at the moment. (The temperature in...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 12, 2004 | HousePosts
California stairs start tomorrow… So with a wee bit of sunlight you can get a better view of what the front of the house is becoming. The siding is going up nicely and should be completed by Wednesday at the latest. The porch is all but complete and roofed. We...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 11, 2004 | HousePosts
Still nice… I got to the house a little later than I wanted to this evening, so these, which would have been better in the daylight, don’t really do the house justice. But they were the best I could do with the light and my flash. Check in tomorrow for...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 10, 2004 | HousePosts
Now let’s start the countdown… As I admitted in an earlier missive, I was a wee bit afraid of what our inspection might bring. When a framer leaves a job partially complete, chances are that there you’ll find quite a few important items left undone....
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 7, 2004 | HousePosts
Puddles of sweat swirl around my feet…Yeah I’m nervous. The building inspector is at the house today. And considering the framing malfeasance I’ve discovered over the last many days, I’m a little worried that something far worse might be...
