House – Page 2 – Mostly lemon based

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Roughing it

House

So the past few days have been rough. I’m starting to come out the other side of feelings of utter despair – so far I’ve…

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Bloody e-bayers

House

As the weather has gradually got less clement (is that a thing? I mean, it’s inclement, so surely it’s becoming less clement? ;) ) we’ve…

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Spoiler alert: it wasn’t

General House

So adding to our tally of inspections that are signed off, and good news on the house front, we had our insulation signed off. That…

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Inspection the second, third and fourth.

House

Ta-da. Per code, on test (a pass) and per plan. Wheeeee There are some fireblocking things we need to address (which I suspected there would…

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Inspection the first.

House

So we finally managed to reach an actual formal inspection point. We’ve had partial inspections which have allowed us to proceed in a non-standard order…

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Snip, strip, clip, repeat

House

So during / after my little breakdown on Tuesday (sorry about that, you didn’t really need to endure it, but hey…) I went down to…

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Damn forums

House

So, I was doing some reading about prepping for inspections and wandered across a discussion of the fact that while it is ‘to code’ to…

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Yet more copper

House

So, we continued our plan to put all of the copper in the world in our house. At least, it somewhat feels that way. We’ve…

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Working like crazy

House

We put in a solid 16.5 hours this weekend on the house. And what did we do? Well, the two front windows, the last two…

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Now with less lawn!

House

So, our project to almost completely eliminate the lawn has started. We had an incident yesterday at the farmer’s market. The usual kind of incident.…