Orange smell for the floors

My oh so wise friend Katie wrote to me and said:As for what they did with the floors that left the orange smell.. they probably oiled them. They seem like they would be rather old floors, and sometimes wood – needs a drink.. lets just say that the orange stuff...

No work today

So I just talked to our contractor and unfortunately his brother, who has been supervising and performing most of the work on our house lately while Macky himself works on another job site, is sick. So no one will be coming to work today. But the estrich (insulation...

Latest developments

In the last few days and weeks, things have really been coming together on the house. Our contractor gave us the first of many bills and was so shocked that we paid him the following day, he promised us that instead of finishing the job in January, he will be doing...

A brick mission

Once they started removing parts of the walls & throwing them out, we realized that the walls are primarily OLD bricks which we will assume are from 1834 which is when the house was built. Not wanting to waste these or just let them get trashed, we started...

Here we stand on Friday morning

Well they’re done with knocking holes in our outside wall…at least for a little while. The next step for that wall will be putting in the windows and doors when they finally arrive in a few weeks.Apparently we’re probably going to need another trash...