Starting To Look Like a House
Missed adding photos last week. Very sad news. My brother in law, Bill passed away last week. He was the biggest fan of this site, and wanted badly to see our house’s progress while in the hospital. I wish he could be around to see the house in it’s finished state. I was able to […]
Leaps & Bounds
We had to leave town for a few days. Here are a lot of updates in a gallery. Framing at a fast and furious pace.
Basement Inside and Starting the Main
Northeast corner of the basement. Mechanical room at the back, storage room and bathroom all framed in. Roanne’s studio. Framed it with notched 2×4’s to keep the room as wide as possible. I got to notch these out on the table saw and chop saw. On my way to becoming a craftsman. It was nice […]
Fill Me Up
Time to fill the hole. Had to go with a quote from the movie “Election” but won’t elaborate any more on the meaning of the phrase since it’s not family friendly. This building is an old (obviously) blacksmith shop on Flying Horse Farm that is across from the Gellatly nut farm. It looks like it […]
End o’ 2013
And so another year comes to a close. 2013 being one of the best of my life. What more could anyone want? Millions of visitors (well, over 50 in 2013, not including multiple visits). Check. Wicked hot summer. Check. Working on building our own house. Super-check. Super-awesome wife. Check….. Here are 13 photos to end […]
Buildus Interruptus
Well, it got cold. Real cold. Like -11 below. Real hard to work productively in that temp. You make mistakes when it’s cold and windy as well. Like using an angle grinder to saw off bolts with one hand while holding the home wrap madly flapping against the house. And having it get away on […]
Joists To The World…
Tired of the terrible puns yet? Couldn’t come up with anything better for Joist Day. Joist relocation program. You wouldn’t be able to tell by this image that we had just been through 3 hours of hell. I woke up an hour early at 5:30, and all I could hear was wind. Not a good […]
Okanagan Anniversary
It was exactly a year ago that Rosanne & I made our move to the Okanagan. We arrived on a chilly November 26 at 10 pm in a car filled with Bob breath from his howling in the car for a few hours. Coyotes were howling, I triggered the house alarm, and we slept on […]
Beam me up Scotty.
Pre-beam. That big open space apparently can’t support a floor without some major structural support. Who’dve thought? Good thing I’m not an architect. Check out this bad boy. Amazingly, it took only 4 of us to drag this beam (from the furthest spot in the woodpile of course) and get it up into the metal […]
Mr. Gorbachev, Build This Wall
Fully Dampenated. Let the Undampening begin. Look, walls & windows. So now the framing starts. This is where things really show progress daily.