While digging out my well cap, i found these three items all buried around it. I guess someone thought these were the tools needed for a future effort, but how to dig…
Home Work: Day 2 of 6 (Working on the Well)
Yesterday was Day Two of my 6-day effort to jump start the house project. It was a day full of physical activity and progress, resulting in enough exhaustion at the end of…
Home Work: Day 1 of 6
Winter is finally <?> behind us and I’m taking a week off from work to see if I can make some progress on Belleview. Not much was accomplished over the winter other…
Critters in the Attic (and Walls)
In my latest efforts, I began removing the remaining walls and ceiling drywall from the two rooms I couldn’t complete during the core demolition efforts. I knew there was likely some critter…
“Game Of Thorns” Trees
I found some strange and dangerous trees on the property. They’ve got these crazy long pointy things – I guess you could call them thorns, but they are more like daggers. About…
Electrical Upgrade
First, here’s a reminder of the electrical system when we bought the house. That photo at the right is a tremendously old school fuse box. It’s got effectively four circuits (fuses) that…
Propane “Safety Check”
Before we could get any hot water (or heat, but that’s not really important in the summer) the propane supplier had to come out and do a safety check. It took two…
Demolition Continues
The latest efforts focused on three things: Demolition Gas/Hot Water Electrical Upgrade I’ll follow up on the second and third, but first it’s time for the demolition update. I got a dumpster on…
Let the Demolition Begin!
So, you think the idea of demolition sounds fun, right? Everyone says that this sounds fun, but I totally disagree. Sure, there’s something savagely satisfying about tossing around a sledgehammer and watching…
Plumbing Hacks
With Bill’s help and oversight, I was ready to turn on the water and was expecting the worst. Bill was under the house in the crawl space and I was upstairs where…