It may have occurred to my devoted blog audience, all two of you, to wonder what has become of the condo that I used to own after I bought my fixer-upper house back in September. The answer is that I … Continue reading
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Not a whole lot of progress this weekend. I only spent one day on the barn, and I didn’t do any carpentry at all. Instead I painted all of my fascia boards while they are still on the ground so … Continue reading
I built the skylight curbs and finished up the roof underlayment this weekend. None too soon it seems, as there’s finally a forecast for some rain in California later in the week. … Continue reading
I’ve started installing roof underlayment on the barn. This isn’t the permanent roof, but it should shed water pretty well in case it rains. It’s approved by the manufacturer for use as a temporary roof for 120 days. I kind … Continue reading
I took Monday off this week to have the county guy come out for a required building inspection. He passed my roof and wall sheathing and the seismic strapping, so I can go ahead with getting the roof and siding … Continue reading
In other, non-barn news, I got my motorcycle running again. I had a bit of an adventure in trying to get a good battery for it; the first one they gave me was defective and the second one didn’t include … Continue reading
I finished up the barn framing this weekend! It has been looking more or less complete for a few weeks now, but there was a big list of things to finish up. Most of the items didn’t have much of … Continue reading
The barn framing is getting close to being finished! I’ve got all of the roof and wall sheathing on, and nailed according to spec. I need to install some Simpson anchors under the upstairs roof, a bit of blocking downstairs, … Continue reading
I haven’t had any blog updates recently. There was this big winter solstice holiday in there that kept me a little busy, but I did manage to decorate the house a bit and someone put a train around one of … Continue reading
My electrical panel arrived today! After much tribulation, I’m going with this one as discussed previously. I’m not ready to start on the electrical work yet but I found it for a really good price so I went ahead and … Continue reading