Today marked a turning point in the Bertha Remodel: the jack-hammering! As I mentioned previously, the structural engineer tells us that we have to increase the size of a concrete pier in the foundation to transfer the load properly to the soil. The building permit was approved, so they made a lot [...]
Here’s one of the largest readily-available foam fractionaters in the world:
It’s set up in the garage on the holding bin for the aquarium rock, which is not producing a lot of gunk or dead stuff at the moment. The water flows into the bottom part there and lots of bubbles are injected. The [...]
I found a better deal on a mortgage loan, so I decided to refinance. Turns out I was able to do the entire thing electronically in one day. I submitted the app, they did their credit pulls and an electronic appraisal, they turned around the other required “paperwork,” I had our insurance agent [...]
Hey folks,
I’m blogging from Denver airport, where I’m sitting hanging out at the end of my trip to Toronto this week. I should have been home a long time ago, but a series of snafus leaves me here. Let me whine about them:
This morning, I got to the Toronto airport at 7:15 for [...]
Demolition began in earnest today at 8:30am. To start, here’s a picture of where I cut up the floor to try to constrain the damage done by the tank flood that occured a couple of weeks ago:
I now think that the floor may have survived without me cutting into it, which is too bad, [...]
Incommunicado, I know. I have been working/traveling/working at home like crazy lately, and there’s just been little time to spare. Things will settle, hopefully, in a few days. Demolition starts tomorrow for Bertha’s new home.
That’s me after about 3 hours of digging about 500 pounds of wet sand out of [...]