by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 23, 2004 | HousePosts
Which is only a small untruth… So here we are, five + weeks past when we actually should have been at the point we’re currently at right now. A good long time by any standard, but insanely late in the game, from my perspective, for this crazy web-based...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 21, 2004 | HousePosts
A photo furthermore… There’s a little bit of roof here. Not much. A little bit more on the other side as well. Seems as if the framer showed up late. Not to worry though. My roofer put a goad in his butt. Told him he’d be here first thing tomorrow...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 21, 2004 | HousePosts
Once more, with feeling… No lie, we’re progressing again. Framers have been on the site for a week solid now and have nearly completed all the roof framing. Currently the only framing left is the connection between the main house and the garage and the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 17, 2004 | HousePosts
It’s all about the right call… It’s hard to know how to come up with a good plan of action when no good plan is particularly obvious. So, as we dragged into week 5 of no real movement on the framing front, I tried to come up with something that would...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 10, 2004 | HousePosts
Progress denied… As I stated last week, the framers walked off the job last Wednesday because one of two partners in the framing crew felt it more important to take a job in Scarsdale rather than to finish what he’d started with me. As it stands at the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 1, 2004 | HousePosts
Time to move to a new frame… Without getting into the insanely outrageous details, suffice to say that my framers, who had done a perfectly wonderful job up until three weeks ago, could no longer hump the lumber, so to speak. It was essentially a matter of two...