It's April 2025. How's your build going?
Yeah, it's spring!
Only went to the site to lift up the blown-down steel fencing. (Kinda like the stock market by a Big Wind.) And make sure the heaters were still on. Then back to my office to look out the window!
But, tomorrow, 18º C.!
All relatively quiet awaiting the return of the finish carpenter from his extended vacay in sunny Portugal. Meanwhile, selecting bathroom counters, kitchen and bar slabs. And praying that the staircase can soon go in ready or not. Providing that the manufacturer's premises and all therein has not been seized in lieu of defaulted rent!
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When they tell you that they have no business and could you please pay the balance of the bill before installation...not good.
Snow gone thanks to a month of fierce rainfall and lightning overnight. The wind blew off a length of edge roof capping and the cash deal roofer is incommunicado.
Gone with the Wind!
The worst problem with a flat roof is not being able to see from the ground what's going on when it's being built. The-five foot length of capping was attached with a single screw!
That Amazon drone on sale is starting to make sense.*
I expect the Upper Peninsula isn't seeing too many castles in greenhouses, eh!
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12 days agolast modified: 12 days agoWe took a break for the first week of April and went exploring on Vancouver Island. That was a grand diversion. Then we brought home a cold and took two more weeks to fully recover.
My brothers and I prepared to parge the ICF basement walls, and we poured two retaining walls and about half the window well.
How do you pour half a window well?
You have a form blowout because you neglected to reinforce a patch, that's how!
I had this all hard troweled when a half yard of hot mud filled the well and ran over into the basement. I got to shovel that all off and then scrape it off and do it again. It was kicking fast.
Now I get to do a whole lot of dry pack finish inside the well. I know how to do that.The local stucco guy gave me a 10K bid in the depths of winter to stucco and clean up the basement walls. I was really trying to do most things myself early on, and although it was probably a good bid I balked. It stole the wind from my DIY sails, so to speak.
I contacted him the other day and he was willing to be the pro from Dover on the trowel for an hourly rate. We brothers got busy and did all the prep work. We are doing Dryvit rather than metal lath and traditional stucco. The finish goal is smooth similar to a concrete basement, but that may change.
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