You probably never give much thought to what’s behind the walls, but like our own bodies, that is where the life support system resides. It can be costly to fix after the walls are finished, it’s like undergoing bypass surgery – very invasive. Especially in this case, since we are spraying in foam insulation. Just about
You don’t think too much about stairways, but they’re a bit tricky to get right, and I have been thinking about and planning this stairway all week. There are several websites that will do the math for you so I bought the wood, grabbed my pencil and speed square and got to work – yeah, right.
Exceptional week at the ranch. Got the second story floor joists put up, and all the decking down. It wasn’t without its complications, however. I ordered the 20 engineered wooden I-beams from McCoy’s with specific instructions to group them into 5’s so that I could lift them with my tractor. When they got to the
Completed the installation of the septic system. Fortunately Williamson County concluded that my soil would support a gravity fed anaerobic system (without pumps or chemicals). I’m surprised at how big the drain field needed to be. It’s actually larger than the one we had in Santa Fe, and that was for 3 bathrooms and really
