We closed on our house in August of 2006, a month before our first year wedding anniversary. Fortunately, we had about four weeks of overlap between getting the keys and the end of our lease on our rental house. During that time, we spent almost every night and weekend at our new home, furiously cleaning, […]
Work weekend #4 began Friday afternoon when Kyle came home early to get a jumpstart on the waterproofing. Normal people go to Happy Hour on Friday afternoon, crazed homeowners apply waterproofing. First he applied a thin coat to the cold joint between the existing foundation wall and new concrete footing “enhancement” that we poured last […]
Aww, Labor Day weekend. Three days of camping in the San Juan islands, cooking over an open fire, playing fetch with your favorite golden retriever on the beach… Well, It would have been great. Early last week we decided to cancel our weekend travel plans and instead power through on the foundation work. In other […]
Bobcat weekend, take 2. Two weekends ago we dug out around our basement foundation to prep for new drains. A hose leak in the bobcat slowed our progress, but this weekend we were back at it, faster and stronger. Digging out around the basement was the first step, the second was to dig two trenches on each […]
Back in May we talked about all the issues with our yard. Now that the deck is more or less done (still need to put the finish on it before the formal reveal), we’ve moved on to fixing our house’s drainage. And you know what that means – it’s bobcat time! So last weekend we rented […]