HOME BUILDING
Posts about posts! And holes and studs and timbers and all of the various pieces that make a house a place to live as opposed to an ominous pile of materials a truck drops off beside a big hole.
nik Winter is coming…
The morning we left for Africa I was able to get a load of granular A gravel for the top portion of the driveway. Knowing the next time I saw the yard in a thawed state it would be an absolute mudbath, getting at least one spot where we could drive and walk without sinking in was […]
nik Keep it tidy
The night before we left for Africa I was at the house til midnight or better running all of the in-wall/ceiling speaker and hdmi wires. The walls would (hopefully) be insulated and drywalled by the time we got back, so it was now or never.
nik Septic elves
When you spend all morning gathering and buying the supplies to lay your septic field, get to your house, and someone has already laid a septic field there. Without you asking (or wanting) them to. One of the more interesting moments of this build.
nik She can do it all, folks!
Dana finishing up some backfilling.
nik Ahoy down there!
The septic field is dug while I (Nik) try not to fall out of the big hole in the wall and close it in.
nik Walk the plank
Dana finishes off a row of deck boards on the back deck.
nik Day to night
Laying the deck boards down at all hours.
nik Boulderdash
These two sisters were far too big for our little machine to move, so they became one with the footings by drilling and epoxying rebar into them.
nik A tight ship
Insulation and vapour barrier are installed by the great guys at Teen Challenge while we were over in Africa. Mom and Dad F. supervise and work on plumbing in the meantime.
nik Dream team
I hope these kids look back fondly on this whole process, but I wouldn’t blame them if they didn’t. They were always so quick to want to help, and when a task fell into their wheelhouse of skill and just enough challenge, they were always up for it. Here, Chip and Carson install carriage bolts through […]