Thanks, Bill. I think the last I remember of your renovations was trying to decide whether to construct a mezzanine or not. Is that right?
It was actually Malcolm who left us, figuratively, roofless. > On 27 April 2021 at 15:50 Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 4/27/2021 5:42 AM, mike wilson wrote: > > > > > Just because thread drift is a catalogued feature of PDML, did you get your > > house modifications finished? I think the last time we heard about it, you > > were sans roof with snow imminent. > > That was 2003. We got lucky, it was the end of October before we got the > last of the windows installed and had the place closed up, but we had a > long warm autumn that year. > > We are pretty much done, and at the point where everything needs a > refresh. The furnace we installed in 2003 failed and was replaced in > 2016, the roof was redone in early 2017, the water tank failed in 2013 > so we put a gas fired tankless heater in. I would never go back to a > water tank after owning a demand heater. > > In 2011, we had one of those once in a century weather events that seem > to happen every ten years or so, which flooded the basement and forced > us to look hard at what was going on down there. We ended up gutting it > right back to the concrete walls, and ended up having to rip out the > driveway to allow the foundation to be waterproofed (if this isn't done > on the outside, it's not going to work), and we had to have 3 walls > braced with 6" steel c-channels. This is pretty common where I am. > Pretty much any basement that hasn't been braced will need that work > done eventually. We have really bad conditions for basement longevity. > > At that time, the darkroom came out, and eventually morphed into a > storage area, and the multi purpose room that had been a combination > wine making room, TV room and photo studio got rebuilt as a woodworking > shop. > > The dogs we had then have long since gone to doggie heaven, as have the > pair we got after that, and the puppies that found their way into our > hearts after them are now all grown up as well. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
