by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 4, 2006 | HousePosts
These guys have been hauling! By the time the evening sun has faded into the west we should have stone all the way around the front of the house and halfway up the back. Monday brings our first stone on the chimney! They also finished putting the lathe all the way up...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 4, 2006 | HousePosts
Ben Grimm Would be So Proud… So they’ve now started to lay in the stonework and already it’s looking really good. At this moment in time they’re working their way around the corners of the front of the house. (They’ve also said that it is...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 3, 2006 | HousePosts
(Sung to the tune of Oliver!’s Food, Glorious Food) As I said in a little Aside last evening, the Stone has arrived. 10 very big boxes of Drystack Ledgestone in Chardonnay, one big box of corners, plus one palette of small boxes called “handipaks.”...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 2, 2006 | Asides, HousePosts
The cultured stone was delivered today at 5:00 pm. Tomorrow the work begins in earnest! We got the Chardonnay…
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 31, 2006 | HousePosts
New water lines, new storm drains, no stone… We were expecting to see the cultured stone delivered today sometime before 10:00 am. By 1:00 pm I hadn’t heard anything, so I assumed that all was good in stoneland. That is until I received a phone call from...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 31, 2006 | HousePosts
As promised, the stonework has begun. René (in the white shirt with yellow sleeves) started putting the skim-coat around the foundation of the house early today. By day’s end he was able to get a ways up the chimney. Daylight savings is currently saving most...
