by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 2, 2004 | HousePosts
NOW we’re lookin’ like a house… It doesn’t take much more than this. Add a couple of gable ends and suddenly it starts looking like a real house. It also softened the edges somehow. The framing, while beautiful, still had the house feeling a...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 29, 2004 | HousePosts
Field of streams… Or whatever… Framers returned today. Sunny. High of 85º. Relative humidity of 51%. Needless to say they’re going gangbusters. All interior and exterior second floor walls will be completed by this evening and some sheathing...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 28, 2004 | HousePosts
Promise of rain leaves us high and dry… It looked like rain. In fact it was raining this morning as we climbed out of bed for another day. But it was all a trick of the mind. Nary a drop fell after 9:30 this morning. Nonetheless, the promise of a good drenching...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 27, 2004 | HousePosts
Gives us a room with a view This morning the framers began plating the second floor so they can start framing second floor walls tomorrow. Actually, it’s raining now, so who knows what tomorrow morning will really bring, but what that means for today is that the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 23, 2004 | HousePosts
Remember, we’re living in the CITY of Beacon Framing continued today, although a torrential rain storm shut the operation down sometime shortly after noon. The photo attached here is taken from the bridge that crosses Dry Brook, which is directly in front of our...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 23, 2004 | HousePosts
Flying Framers Very Fast Yesterday marked one week since the framers began their work. To say that they are flying is an absolute understatement. When today comes to an end they will have completed the first floor framing, rolled the second floor joists, and put down...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 18, 2004 | HousePosts
We’re floored! Welcome to those of you who are visiting us for the first time due to the article in the Poughkeepsie Journal. As luck would have it, one day after the photographer took the shots for today’s newspaper article, the framing actually began....
