Tag: home-improvement
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Back From The Dead
I’m back from the dead. Construction on the ADU project completed in July. Two and a half years from beginning to “end”. We learned a lot. We learned that contractors have to be babysat. At least the one we had did. He never wrote anything down, or checked on the work of his employees, or…
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Construction Projects Are Not Fun
We have been delayed for a few months now. There was a construction change for the roof on the garage conversion. The architect had drawn up a “California Roof” for the second room which used to be a laundry room with a flat roof. When I looked at the plans, I didn’t realize that the…
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Concrete Poured
The concrete has been poured! I did not get a chance to visit the site to get pictures of the rebar job. It is fun and educational to watch something being built from the ground up. I used to work for my Dad around twenty-four years ago. I did not have the interest in the…
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Busy Plumber
My childhood friend is also the person who is supposed to be plumbing this project. Since the project has started, he has not been able to commit any time to working on it. Getting him to come out and mark trenches for the underground plumbing was difficult enough. In his defense, we did not agree…
Winning the Rat Race 