Moving on up

We set our last heavy duty 18″ tall open web floor truss this morning and definitely are delighted to be through that chore. Normally, we…

Rheem Heat Pump Hot Water Heater

Riverbluff is the third house where we have used the Rheem Heat Pump Hot Water Heater, as we have been really happy with the results.  Rheem…

Serious Windows

So, again, for this next house, we are going for Passive House Certification, which is still fairly new to the States, but has been around…

Framing Begins!

Enough with the rain already.  We finally caught a break from mother nature today and were able to get rolling.  We knocked out the basement…

Keep that man behind bars

Before Tom left us choking on his dust and exhaust, he gave us this parting gift: a new take on the upstairs hallway railing.  I…

Airing out the soil

Traditionally, we have always done an extremely lackluster job of landscaping our houses.  The reality is that we operate on a tight budget and we…

Slab is poured

The latter part of last week was spent on the final few items necessary prior to being able to start framing.  Since we had excavated…

Fun with concrete

We poured the foundation for 6th St this past Friday. I’m honestly not that motivated to write about as it was so low key and…

More IKEA modifications

We have been sourcing most of our bathroom vanities from IKEA.  Again, affordable with a little bit of a sense of design.  But, I see…