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...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 6, 2004 | HousePosts
Door ya wanna come in?The trim around the front door and the stained glass window is now complete, and they should be siding this part of the house sometime today. It really looks absolutely, wonderfully, wonderful. Wouldn’t you agree?
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 5, 2004 | HousePosts
Last step before the final side…As the framers didn’t complete their job we had to finish framing the porch roof today before the siding could be completed. (All this, of course, should have been done some time around, oh, let’s say at the end of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 4, 2004 | HousePosts
The room with a view… So we’re trudging along getting all the siding fiinished and fixing the MANY mistakes that our friends at Matco Construction left us with. (There are four pocket doors in the house, NONE were framed correctly. Dorks!) As you can see...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 1, 2004 | HousePosts
Photos and a weather report…Raining today, as it has on and off for the last several days. Fortunately it’s still warm here (at least warm for the first of December.) Rough plumbing is complete and we expect to have a framing inspection next Tuesday. Then...
