DIY House Addition: Step 4 – Framing
Foundations are fun, I agree, and not just because 1.) you get to dig a bigass hole in the ground, and 2.) my family owns a foundation company. Actually, I (read more...)
DIY House Addition: Month 3 Wrap Up
Apparently month 2 got lost somewhere in the framing, fascia, roofing, and sawdust. Time sure flies when you're having fun working a couple of jobs and building a house. While Month (read more...)
DIY House Addition: Step 3 – Foundation
So the ink is barely dry on your building permit and you're ready to break out the excavator and start digging? If you just read that sentence and said, "What the (read more...)
DIY House Addition: Month 1 Wrap Up
The reality is, we've been working on this addition mentally and financially for over a year, and those two items cannot be overemphasized. In the last month the workload hasn't (read more...)
Playing In the Dirt: Not Just For Kids
MysteryMan and I have both been fighting some sort of germ that has lodged itself in our throats, so we didn't have as hard-core of a working weekend as we (read more...)
DIY House Addition: Step 2 – Getting Building Permits*
Sixty hours of sitting through contractors class and this is what I learned: No, you cannot rent an excavator and just start digging a bigass hole in the ground for (read more...)
DIY House Addition: Cool house features to consider before you build.
As I find myself being slowly buried in a pile of blueprints, how-to books, torn-out magazine pages, and contractor's licensing forms, I can't decide if waiting until Spring to break-ground (read more...)
DIY House Addition: Making Hard Decisions
The Story: In the last couple of weeks a few things happened in succession which made the two of us take a long hard look at what we wanted, and what (read more...)
DIY House Addition: Things you need to know first.
The Story: We say we've been seriously contemplating the addition for about a year, but it's really been a month since we've begun to formulate anything resembling a workable plan. (read more...)
What can I say? I love this drill. Along with every other tool in my 
