I got some lumber on the way home and made my frame for my concrete pillar. Turns out that the hole I dug yesterday was woefully inadequate. It was too small on all sides, and the soil on the far bank (from the picture) was piled in a loose hill that was throwing me off. […]
My flooring was due in on the 25th of May and my cabinets were supposed to arrive in late July. I have already brought my flooring home and I just got an email from Diamond (our cabinet manufacturer, if you can’t guess) saying that they preliminarily expect to ship out our new cabinets on June […]
Who knew digging a hole would be so involved? The task seems simple. Dig a hole. Fill it with concrete. Done. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it is more difficult than that. I have calculated that with the type of dirt I have under my house (mud), I need 36 sq ft of pressure […]
I ordered the floor on Tuesday and Lowe’s said it would be in on the 25th. I got a call yesterday that it was in. It’s not often that an order comes in two weeks ahead of schedule–especially on a 2 and a half week lead time. I know that Dalton isn’t that far from […]
Apparently, if I order all of the cabinet equipment and plan on installing it myself, Lowe’s doesn’t care much if I screwed up dimensioning the room. However, if they’re going to install it, they need someone to come out to my house and verify my dimensions. Here’s how the process is supposed to work: I […]
With my wife in Africa, it is time for me to address an inadequacy that has been plaguing us for years: much of our life is not built on a strong foundation… Literally. Sarah and I bought our house right after we got married and we were told that our house had foundation problems in […]