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Trusses

Posted on October 4, 2012 by admin

The roof system has been screwed up from the get-go. When we started, a birds-eye view of the roof was going to be a Z-shape, with a gable over the garage doors and the kitchen. This has a lot going … Continue reading →

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Labor Day Gut Check

Posted on September 10, 2012 by admin

There was a time, about 6 months ago, when we lived in a dream world where we hoped to be living in the new place shortly after labor day. For that to work, we’d have needed to start mid-May, nothing could have … Continue reading →

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Meet the Barn

Posted on August 23, 2012 by admin

In particle physics, the cross sectional area of a uranium nucleus , about 10-28m2, is called  a ‘Barn’ because, in that context, it’s huge:  ‘As big as a barn.’ (And, according to the Zurich Naming Scheme for Nuclear Cross Sections, … Continue reading →

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Framing. Part I

Posted on August 23, 2012 by admin

My apologies to all my readers for recent radio silence. I tried to do something fancy with my site and screwed it up in the process. It took 10 days to get it running again, and the fix was to move … Continue reading →

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Week 7: Slabs

Posted on August 1, 2012 by admin

Honestly, I’m not totally sure that this is week 7, because some of these tasks have been spilling over on one another, but it’s pretty close. All this time, we’ve been thinking that Bernie is going to get to work … Continue reading →

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Week 6: Septic

Posted on August 1, 2012 by admin

Now that they know how deep the hole thru the foundation for wastewater is, they started building the septic system. We knew this when a steady stream of dump trucks began arriving at dawn.  I think he said 14 loads of mound sand … Continue reading →

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The Angry Rock

Posted on July 24, 2012 by admin

The day they dug the trench to the well, of course, it went right though the garden. They had to expose the well casing, so a few plants were displaced. The next morning, when I asked Mary if there was anything that … Continue reading →

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Week 5: Trenches

Posted on July 23, 2012 by admin

There is just no end to site work. Some days, I go out there and I’m not really sure which dirt has been moved or which trenches filled. The piles of gravel which they’ve been spreading on the footing drains … Continue reading →

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Week 4: Backfill

Posted on July 18, 2012 by admin

By now, I’m going a little nuts watching all the activity next door without having much of a role to play. Every day, I show up a couple of times and say hello to the crew and snap some photos. … Continue reading →

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Week 3: Foundation

Posted on July 17, 2012 by admin

Monday, June 25, they had the footings stripped of the forms before I got up. A truck full of forms and a crane showed up and unloaded. It shouldn’t surprise me that these guys have it down to a science: they … Continue reading →

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