Monthly Archives: August 2011

Never argue with the city

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

We’ve had something of a gap in major reno work over the last few days as we wrestled with the city about interpretations of arcane details of building codes, and whether we needed to install a plastic vapor barrier between … Continue reading →

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Smug and snug

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

In the coldest days of winter or the hottest days of summer, we hope to be sitting smugly and snugly in our nicely redone shell, and we might look back on today as the turning point. You see today, almost … Continue reading →

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Talking tiles

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

I fretted a while back that I wasn’t happy about our tiling choices, so I dragged the spouse back to the tile store to try again. The first store had nothing that grabbed my attention, so we meandered across the … Continue reading →

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Our two-candle house

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

Right at the start of this renovation game, one of the contractors snorted that we were building a “two-candle home” in that we were planning so much in the way of insulation that it will only take two candles to … Continue reading →

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