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I’m usually fairly detail-oriented. It’s a required trait for both my job (proposal writing) and my condition (I’m perhaps slightly afflicted with OCD). This weekend, following Saturday’s Grungy Fence Removal Escapade, I [Read More] 

Just a few random loose ends.br /br /First, does anyone have an opinion/advice/experience/warning/praise for half round gutters? My gutters need to be replaced and I'm kind of considering something like a href="http://www.classicgutters.com/Nehemiah/ [Read More] 

My apologies for taking so long to update my blog. There hasn't been all that much going on with the house - at least that's my excuse! I hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving day. We had some of DH's family down and had an enjoyable time.I drove t [Read More] 

divFixing the stable gutters - I decided to double up on the scaffold tower to see if a walkway could be built. Reasonably successful, it was just a little to small but could be moved quite easily. When putting in the brackets realised how bad the br [Read More] 

We have had a lot of rain recently and I have been doing different things that have kept me busy.br /Different patterns for the back door step. Measures approx – 3 foot by 1 ½ foot(1metre by 1/2)br /a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CqvDoGxQWMY/SM [Read More] 

Brandon and I finished putting up the fascia this weekend so the gutter guys could come put up the gutters this morning.
I primed the boards before we put them up.
Then we nailed them onto the ends of the rafters.
Brandon was a wiz at measuring an [Read More] 

We’ve hired a professional flooring company to install tile in our bathroom. We worked with them for several weeks, stopped in at the store twice, and had several phone discussions in setting all this up. He told us we’d need to have [Read More] 

A lot has been done out at the house since we were there on Friday. The painting is done, the closets all have shelves, and a few more lights are up.The concrete was poured yesterday or today; it was difficult to tell which day they did it, but it lo [Read More] 

The house was hopping today! The carpenters were finishing up the great room woodwork, working on closets, and putting the molding around the oval windows in the kids' bathroom. The painters were working on the second and third floors. The electricia [Read More] 

span style="font-family:arial;"I just haven't had time to update lately. The gutter guys did a great job, all the issues are taken care of and they have been paid./spanbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" hr [Read More] 

With some awesome spring weather these past couple of weeks, I’ve been taking the opportunity to do some much needed work on the outside of Our New Old House. One task I have to accomplish is to remove the broken old gutters and rotten fascia [Read More] 

After a record amount of snow in the month of December*, by the looks of it, much of it will be gone come Christmas. Puddles abound. Heads routinely get dripped on. The eaves of my house look like the inside of Gollum’s cave**.
Whic [Read More] 

Snagging the last 16 gal Wet/Dry Vac at Home Depot (Major Score): $100.00Six gutter extentder jobies: $60.00Two floor squeegies and poles: $20.00Digging ditches, sweeping out gallons of water: Much hard work, sweat and tears... A House that is starti [Read More] 

Nick dug out the ladder and tackled the garden we had growing in the gutters and the valleys on our roof. After he cleared a ton of moss, branches and small plants from the south side of the roof I brought out his climbing harness and rope so he coul [Read More] 

The fine folks from Professional Gutter & Drain installed the new gutters today. As I have spent many hours hauling buckets of water from our basement when it storms, I am very, very glad to see gutters on the house. Nice to get my mind out of G [Read More] 

But this patch of dirt may retain my husband's sanity. It POURED down rain last night. We didn't freak out because we've got new gutters and they should be alleviating those pesky problems of old- water spouting everywhere and eventually ending up i [Read More] 

In my rush to finish the windows project, I neglected to clean the rain gutters on the back porch.
Then we had a really big storm last Thursday night. And I remembered the gutters.
Funny. How a sheet of rain pouring out of your gutters and onto [Read More] 

Since we’re going to be so busy the rest of this summer working on our new old house, Brandon and I made it a point to go up to Clear Lake this weekend and work on our other house. We did some outdoor jobs that we’ve been putting off too [Read More] 

Even though I feel like we might be finishing the shed for the rest of our lives, we did get lots done on it yesterday. I got cedar shingles hung on half of one side, and figured out how to work around the top of the door. Chad hung gutters on each [Read More] 

Around the middle of October I was painting the walls in our home office when someone walked by the window. This freaked me out for a second (after all I'm on the second floor of our house), but then I realized that it was the guys repairing my Gutte [Read More] 