Almost a day and a half of digging from our friends at Hallford Excavating left us with about 600 ft of 3′ wide, 6-8′ deep trench in the back yard. Here you can see the trench closest to you which holds the two plastic pipes which exit the house and head towards the backyard behind [...]
We have now started remodeling the guest room with the same hardwood floor as Dylan’s flooring. To give myself a break I rented a pneumatic floor nailer, much easier than the manual nailer although they really get you on the rental price. Dylan was present for this install and was excited about helping, it wasn’t [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2008
The brutal heat last summer was enough to push us over the edge, this long with the fact that pellets are costing us $2 a day and leaving the house with cold spots made this a no brainer. These are the house plans detailing the HVAC system, orange indicates ‘runs’ going upstairs, yellow indicates downstairs [...]
Friday, September 28, 2007
Today we had a truck of Missoula River Rock delivered from Dolandson Brothers Ready Mix Inc in Hamilton. We have a 3ft x 150ft strip along the driveway that has a border, it has recently been cleaned out and covered with a liner, this is where the bulk of the rock was needed. We also [...]
This post will cover the installation of Bellawood “rustic maple” hardwood flooring from Lumber Liquidators; per Bellawood and the way it was actually installed. The flooring is 3/4 ” thick solid, tongue and groove, prefinished hardwood strip flooring that comes in random lengths (from 10 to 82 inches). The flooring is nailed down with blind-nails [...]
I ordered 17 boxes (360sqft) of Bellawood 3/4″ x 3-1/4″ Rustic Maple Flooring. A fedex semi arrived with a lift gate and pallet jack. Upon arrival damage to the boxes was observed. The extent of the damage appears to be limited to the packaging, the wood itself looks very nice; straight and unscuffed.
1 truckload of topsoil was brought to the house and spread over the area during grading; sod delivery; laying the sod;
23 skip (Schipkaensis) laurels planted along the side of our driveway. before; after;
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } water booster pump, originally uploaded by LanShark. the first step in preparing for sod was figuring out our water situation, we knew our water pressure was weak and inconsistent so we needed a plan [...]