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Ding! Attic’s done. (almost)

September 5, 2007 in Construction, Homestead by MAD | No comments

Well it didn’t quite take a year, but it seems like it.

We started finishing the attic a while ago. The roof is now completely enclosed, and we cleaned, and cleaned, and painted this weekend. It’s almost ready to move in. This past weekend Claudine too Maria to Vermont to visit relatives. Maggie, Molly, Michael and I attacked the attic ‘trading-spaces’ style.

This was the perfect opportunity. On that show you turn over a room someone who you trust (hopefully). While they are totally changing your room, you have no say in what stays or goes, what they toss, or how things are done. That was the logic behind last weekend. With Claudine out of town, she wouldn’t have any say on what we tossed during the clean out phase or what we painted either.

The photos below don’t do it justice. I didn’t take good photos of all the crap we has stored up there. While we all like the ‘natural’ wood look, the attic isn’t as bright as we wanted, and since we’ll be moving two girls up there, it wasn’t very ‘girly’ either. It turned out really well.

Now we need to tackle the air-conditioning or lack-there-of problem. We’re looking at installing a stand alone PACT unit up there.

More on that later.

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Attic progress

January 13, 2007 in Construction by MAD | 1 comment

In the last month or so we had the opportunity to get our rears up in the attic and working on the ‘project’.

About two weeks ago Michael and I kicked butt and took names for one day and wrapped up the north side (except for the trim). But we did finish the bulk of that side.

Photos in the Original Gallery Here.

So far we’re really happy with the results ;)

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Attic Part 2 of ???

December 3, 2006 in Construction by MAD | No comments

Alright, so yea, we started this Attic project back in uhm March/April.

We framed out the supports for the mighty fine pine 4×8 tongue and groove pattern 166 siding.

All summer long something else has been happening, like the barn, or finding a horse, or getting a new motorcycle. Always something!

This weekend I found some time to get up there and make some progress. It’s coming together nicely. No I have no idea yet what I’m going to do with the skylights. :( But I’ll work something out. Having a complete plan is never a prerequisite, nor is it usually possible with this old house. You’re going to run into something any way.

Larger images in the Gallery here.

Yesterday I battled the Paslode. My favorite TOOL in the world. It jammed up and until I broke down and read the directions, was nearly impossible to un-jam. But if you simply follow the directions, it’s a piece of cake. So that’s one jam in about 2000 nails when you consider it was used quite a bit on the barn too.

See: Attic Part 1 off ??? & Progress in the Attic, as well as: Home Depot and Customer Service

With some luck we’ll wrap up the north side in the next couple weeks. (Hey! It’s possible ;) )

We’re going to come up short on the siding because it sat outside in the driveway too long and even though we had it covered well (or so we thought) a significant portion of the wood is now stained from water damage. However, if we decide to paint it as opposed to stain it we should be alright.

Well, it’s done, sort of…

June 9, 2006 in Construction, Family by MAD | No comments

Let the real fun begin.

Cisco is home as of today.

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Sorry for the poor picture quality, we weren’t thinking ahead, this came off my phone.

But he’s home, and he’s happy and so is Claudine. There’s still lots of work to do including finding a pasture pal or stable mate for Cisco.

But we’ve accomplished what we set out to do this spring.

Barn Update June 7th

June 7, 2006 in Construction by MAD | No comments

Oh yeah, Stalls and Lofts, Oh my.

It’s really happening, really it is.

Photos on this page of the Gallery here.Charlie and Co. started Monday, set the posts, returned yesterday and got a LOT done. The stalls are all but done and the bulk of the loft. Today they need to put the walk way between them in, finish the stall doors and we’re set.

Claudine picked up the stall mats so we have some sand leveling to do.

Then some electrical work for outlets and lighting (still waiting on the final though).

Right now we’re leaving the stalls half height until we get a 2nd horse, then we’ll put up wire mesh in the upper half between them to keep them separated. But they will be able to stick their heads over so the stalls will feel larger to them.

Right now the plan is to bring the horse home Friday.

There is clean up to be done and one more gate for the mud lot to buy. Then all the interior fun stuff begins. Giddy-up.

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More horse homestead progress.

June 4, 2006 in Construction by MAD | No comments

This weekend we added more fencing. We fenced in a smaller dry lot area inside the paddock. This is the place Cisco will spend most of his time. Since he’s basically a pig and will eat himself to death, he gets to eat everything out of this area until it’s gone. Then he’ll wander around in the dirt looking at all the grass he can’t get too.

While punching the holes for these posts, Rick dropped off the two dump truck loads of sand for the stall beds.

We spread those too. This was the final step keeping us from putting the loft and stalls in place.

We called Charlie and that work begins on Monday (tomorrow). Now we’re rounding 3rd and heading for home with the bulk of the work.

Still to do is:

Electrical, the lighting (after the loft and stalls are in) Gravel for lot and driveway, additional down spout plumbing, a well dug at some point and plumbing therein. Of course the tack room, goat have one of those.

But we should be able to get the horse home soon.

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