Category: Exterior
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Ending our worst year -2023
We got a quote for painting the house and barn with the understanding that our contractor was still working and would complete painting on his work once completed. We were told the painting crew would start on June 23rd and they’d be done end of July. That did not happen… 2 guys showed up June…
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2023 porch part 3
In April 2023, decking layout began. M and I helped with this install in May when we took a staycation. It was incredibly fun to help on this and know that we played a small part in our big project. We did a hidden fastener installation with a Camo Marksman. After the crew did some…
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2023 porch continues
To our home’s successor’s, The guys finished framing the deck late January and started to work on the ceiling. This became our first add. We opted for ceiling coffers which did increase the complexity as well as material cost increase. (this was not our last add… we were easily swayed and it ended up biting…
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The Porch begins
To our home’s successors, In September 2022, after more than a year of waiting, our contractor team started on demolition and discovery. The porch project as a whole expanded into several projects and a much longer timespan that anyone expected. Our team started by removing the ceilings, they were meticulous and slow as to be…
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2022 self- performed
To our home’s successors, With our major project on deck for the year, we tried our best to stay motivated and accomplish a few projects on our own as well. We started on some low hanging projects that were mostly aesthetic. We had shifted primary rooms in 2021 which gave us ‘his and hers’ closets…
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2021
With 2020 spent primarily in global lockdown, many factories were then behind on production and often short staffed when they were finally able to reopen. The limited supply meant high costs for materials… just in time for us to do a major project… With this as our outlook, we decided to take it as easy…
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2020 isn’t what we expected
To our home’s successors, Riding high on 2019, we went into 2020 with some big visions. Unfortunately in the spring of 2020, the world was put into shutdown with the Covid19 pandemic. We were both equipped to work from home which could have provided us with significantly more time to work on projects, however, I…
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First big yard cleanup
To our home’s successor, 2019 was the year of low-budget street appeal. With some major electrical work underway, we decided to commit ourselves to tackling the yard. The entire property was and still is extremely overrun with invasive species. The hedgeline along the street was extremely overgrown and consisted of some MAJOR bittersweet vines that…
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Electrical Work
To our home’s successor, In May of 2019 we started our “big dig”. Our first concern with the house was the outdated wiring. There are, of course, conflicting opinions on knob-and-tube but we are of the opinion that it should be removed as it can be considered a fire hazard. We were lucky to find…
Letters to our House Successors 