Posted in Pictures on Sep 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
The wall behind the woodstove. Drywalled.
The raised squares on the wall are spacers created from 2" square pieces of backerboard. They give us the air gap needed to decrease the distance that the stove must be from the wall by approximately 60%. I cut them with the diamond blade and used regular woodworking glue to […]
Posted in Construction, Electrical, Pictures, Plumbing on May 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
We took the opportunity of the long weekend and my Dad being in town to try to focus on the house. I got back into rough carpentry mode for a bit before putting my electrician and plumbing hats back on. I also got to try on a circus high wire hat - that’s one I […]
Posted in Pictures, Plumbing, Tools on Mar 4th, 2008 No Comments »
While working on the DWV plumbing, I’ve found some tools to be extremely useful to have around. Most I expected but some were a surprise.
A selection of hand tools. I used the awl on my pocket knife (far left) to help get the disks out of the hole saw. The chisels were what I was […]
Posted in Construction, Pictures on Feb 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
Since our house is a SIP house, it’s some extra work to put plugs and switches in the exterior walls. There will be times when it’s unavoidable, but we’re trying to minimize the situation both because it will be easier and we don’t want to pierce the envelop of the walls if we can avoid […]
Posted in Pictures, Plumbing on Feb 25th, 2008 5 Comments »
We’re well on our way on the next phase of house building - Drain, Waste, Vent plumbing. The last month or so, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and planning and the last couple of weeks have been busy executing, modifying and adapting the plan.I’m happy to say that I’ve now finished all 3″ […]
Posted in Construction, Pictures on Feb 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
We’ve been spending a bit of time walking around the house, looking at the bare, framed walls and imagining how out stuff will fit into it. Thinking about how we’ll be using the space. Considering if it’s all “right”.
We have come to the realization that the master isn’t quite right for our bed. Amber and […]
Posted in Announcements, Pictures on Jan 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
As many of you know, we brought Joc (pronounced “joss”, short for Jocelyn) into our lives back in August.
Since that time she’s lived in the tent or the trailer with us. When we moved into town, she stayed on the property and for a while we were going up there mornings to let her out […]
Posted in Pictures on Dec 28th, 2007 3 Comments »
Last night, we got our first “real” snowfall. I don’t think that what we got before counted as real, it was more of a “practice” session. We got snow both at our apartment and at the house.
Looking down the driveway towards the house.
Lots of the white stuff.
Looking up at the south face.
A possible future christmas […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Dec 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
The last few weeks have just been a flurry of activity on the house. All the walls are up, the roof panels are on, and the interior rough framing will be finished in the next couple days.
Once that’s all done (and inspected) we’re moving on to roofing and siding. We’ve got two different outfits lined […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Dec 19th, 2007 No Comments »
We had our first snowfall that we’ve seen on the property this week! It’s very exciting to be finally living in a place where it snows.
Driving up to the property on Monday morning, it really felt like winter was here as I saw small mounds of snow on the side of the road and the […]