I’ve grown so accustomed to the thumps and thwonks emanating from beneath the house that I barely notice them. Robert and Vidal remain busy, but progress is more subtle — or maybe I’m just taking constant change for granted. On the way downstairs to visit the site this afternoon I found Lulu and EP in a photo session: Lulu’s high-altitude daring made EP nervous: Lots of new rebar is nestled all snug in its bed, […]
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Building my studio
Cover of Darkness
All was quiet on the construction front for the better part of a week, as we waited for the house lifters. Unfortunately I was gone when they arrived, and missed the excitement. Robert said they had to jack the house up a little to get the supports out, and then lower it back down, and apparently the house was a little whiney about the operation. I’ve been on multiple deadlines and haven’t been able to […]
Read moreSoggy Bottom
Now that the room is framed, we’re waiting for the house-lifters to de-lift the house. In the meantime, (royal) we are at work on drainage. The basement floods even in a small rain, so Dan has a two-part strategy involving a French drain and some new downspouts. I probably won’t report voluminously about the downspout part — not that it isn’t intriguing or anything — and will focus instead on the French drain. Here it […]
Read moreFramed!
Wednesday, two days after the concrete-pour, the framing begins. Robert works on the back where the door will go… … while Vidal works on a side wall: Soon, most of the vertical bits are in place: Now there’s house where once there was none, and an unruly camelia has started to trip passers-by. (You can see it at the lower-right corner of the picture above.) EP, who has been gardening for a living, generously offers […]
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