Boxes In Fields

Since the end of February upon the completion of the spray foam insulation there has not been one singular project started and completed in sequence. After the spray foam, sheet rock and rockwool insulation was installed in the pantry, bedroom, and kitchen. The pantry was completed. The bedroom was lacking a couple strips of insulation and sheetrock, and the kitchen was a complete sheet rock disaster by the time the Bantry ceiling was started. After the Bantry ceiling was the…

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Floor, walls, ceiling, lights, and an almost complete vanity with sink. Bathroom is moving right along. Right along. With the cabinets done, we could return back to the shower. September shower sounds savy, right? If you are into those funny English literature things like that. Four full months have come and gone since installing shower tile. Somewhere around the middle of June all of the ceiling trim was reinstalled covering 99% of the paint overspray. The double layer of trim…

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In our endless attempts to collect and reuse water, BIF has come up with a very creative way to capture the most water wasteful item in any house. The washer or maybe the shower. In our case it is the washer as the Planner is constantly reminding; ever so gently; to turn off the water between soaping. His current thinking is that 2.5 gallons of water per people is too much. We need to reduce, reduce, reduce. With the exception…

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Hot, hot, hot. There is no other way to describe the dog days of summer. There are no clouds, no wind, no break from the heat of day even at the dark of night. It is hot before the sun comes up and is still hot when the sun goes down. With the Doubter coming to help in the bathroom I decided it was too hot for him to work in these conditions. He would work without complaint but he…

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