by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 3, 2004 | HousePosts
Wood’s delivered. Game begins… They delivered the lumber late yesterday afternoon and the framers will be here Monday at 8:00 am. In about three weeks we’ll have more than a semblence of a house. Hard to believe this day is finally here, but...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 22, 2004 | HousePosts
Marry the house to the land and the land to the house… As I stated before, every tree we’ve had to remove from the property has been removed with reticence and tears. They’ve been removed because leaving them in place would have put life, limb, or...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 14, 2004 | HousePosts
A floor you can skate on… If this is any indiacation as to just how crazy things are these days, we poured basement and garage slabs as well as crawl space concrete. the end result is a gorgeous basement floor that is so well done it looks like you can ice skate...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 8, 2004 | HousePosts
Question is… will we be there to see it? Basement floor, garage floor, and crawl space areas will all be poured tomorrow morning. 7:30 is when the trucks are scheduled to appear. Ya know, I think we can make it this time. No grabbing kids from school. No rushing...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 2, 2004 | HousePosts
It’s some dirty work Things have been a wee bit dull of late. Essentially everything is being backfilled, and in the case of crawlspaces, filled to the brim and tamped down. With some luck we should be well on our way to basement and garage floors by late this...
by Jeffery Battersby | May 20, 2004 | HousePosts
Another happy arrival… This morning we had a pleasant delivery: Our new front door and its lovely companion, the window at the front stairway. Words cannot begin to describe how beautiful they are. The photo at the right in no way does them justice. Which simply...
