Just a quick post to summarize the 2022 season. I took delivery of the washer/dryer and got them installed and running as my final act of 2022 before closing up for the…
Category: General
End of the Season
With Thanksgiving upon us, the 2020 season for Project Belleview is pretty much complete. I might get lucky with a few warm day in December, but seeing as how the primary project…
Exterior Painting
After a flurry of summer activity, not much of note has happened at the house lately. That’s not to say there’s been no activity, but the efforts are a little more subtle…
Screened Porch Windows
In my latest attempt to complete smaller projects that have big impact, I cut in and screened the porch windows. This gives me a functional screened porch which is highly desirable at…
“Annual Update”
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted an update; a year, in fact. Admittedly, part of this past year, nothing happened. Life changes prevented me from getting to the house as…
Completing the Ground Work
Once the new foundation and drainage was completed, there was the matter of “cleaning up” the surrounding ground as well as replacing a few of the wall boards that had begun to…
Foundation and Drain
After the foundation work in the back of the house was completed, we took a look at the front. Digging down just a little where the rot can be seen quickly revealed…
The New Bedroom!
Belleview is a small cottage; I mean really small. The layout when we purchased it had two bedrooms, but the “larger” one couldn’t even fit a queen bed and the smaller one,…
Foundation, Crawl Space & Drainage
When we first bought the house and we looked at the foundation with our neighbor, we all agreed that it was sturdy, the house was secure, and it wasn’t going anywhere. Obviously,…
A Little Beautification Work
This weekend I arrived at the house late Saturday after a week of work done by a contractor. I’ll post about that separately, there’s a lot to it. And, this was the…