Life on the North River

04/11/2024

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Best Laid Plans l Presently In The Present


Let there be wall. Getting a little more vertical this week. It's nice to be able to look out the window frame to see a little bit into the future. Doing our best to make progress despite heavy opposition from the weather.

28/10/2024

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We're chugging along nicely. All our joists are installed and we have an honest chunk of the blocking squared away. Glued-up some columns, smashed up an old ...

21/10/2024

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Autumn Splendor l Full Of Joist


The floor is well underway. Loves us some nailing. The weather has been incredible and surprisingly cooperative. We're happy to just keep plugging away in our dreamscape.

14/10/2024

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Let there be floor! Knee deep in joists at the moment. Things are moving along nicely. Fall is falling. Colours and whatnot. We're trying our best to keep it...

07/10/2024

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We had a good week. Amazing weather. About 80% of the beams for the foundation are finished. Here's hoping the weather holds so we can keep this momentum.

30/09/2024

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A lot of rain this week. We still managed to rough in the plumbing. For bonus points our last load of fill arrived which we promptly chucked in the last of t...

23/09/2024

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Just about done with plumbing. Well, all things outgoing and got the jump on some of the things incoming. Looking forward to getting back to building floors,...

16/09/2024

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We finished up our greywater leach field for the not yet existent washing machine (dreams of the future). The rest of the plumbing is ongoing. We also turned...

09/09/2024

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We're making progress and have started building the main girders/beams that will support the floor and walls. We also roughed in our powder room and are hemm...

02/09/2024

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Random tasks abound! We were able to take another sizeable bite out of the landscaping we need to finish which also contributes fill for the old farmhouse ba...

26/08/2024

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Despite a few rained-out days, we are happy with our progress. It took a couple of swings at bat but we got the posts installed and levelled and epoxied into...

19/08/2024

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The title says it all. We have finished the piers. A giant weight (17,000 pounds) has been lifted off our backs. We're super excited to keep moving along. Al...

12/08/2024

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As fun as concrete is (and oh boy is it fun) we are just about done with the foundation. Despite the hard work, we're really enjoying our summer. We hope the...

05/08/2024

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More piers. That's right, more piers. We're on the home stretch for what is arguably the hardest aspect of the build to date. Well... maybe it's a photo fini...

29/07/2024

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We're coming around the bend. At least as piers and footings are concerned. Still a long stretch to home plate but with our pace, and progress to date we're ...

22/07/2024

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Not a lot to report. Just a lot of the same. Toiling away at the foundation. And step by step we're getting there.

15/07/2024

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Great Victory! Our first two piers are in. Only twenty-five more to go LOL. We're sure we'll pick up speed along the way. We can only get better from here on...

08/07/2024

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Other than the occasional underground surprise things are moving along nicely. We're a little past the half way mark for the foundation base. Only one or two...

01/07/2024

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We're waist deep in it now. Work for the foundation is moving along at a decent pace save for a couple of snags here and there. Par for the course. It's been...

24/06/2024

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Hoo Boy! She was a hot one alright. Mid July in early June. We have some digging to do and some stone to haul. We're really getting a kick out of the Swiss F...

17/06/2024

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We took a break from the big build to spend some quality time with Norval and Julia. As always, side quests abound and we planted some new fruit trees, grape...

27/05/2024

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We've taken advantage of the unusually warm weather and planted our garden a little early this year. Bigger and better than ever! We took apart the old solar...

13/05/2024

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No more messing around...well a little more messing around. Some landscape lighting down by the river, a little preservation work on the gazebo, and some ga...

06/05/2024

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Spring is springing. We have some new neighbours taking advantage of fresh greens while we transplanted a few more trees. In preparation of the hot weather t...

10/07/2023

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Turns out slipping into side project/slow down mode wasn't all that hard. We're magically converting some of our farm house floor joists into a floating gaze...