Mar
25
It’s been a pretty crazy week or so, but things are pretty much done at House #2. Refinishing the hardwood floors was the last major hurdle, which I finished staining at like midnight last night. Still need to hit them with a couple of coats of poly and still have a little bit of grouting […]
Mar
12
Updates, Regress, and a Little Progress
March 12, 2008 | 5 Comments
Not even sure where to begin with getting caught up on the doings at House #2, but here’s the short version:
1) Contractor #1 is gone as of last Friday. Contractor #2 is now on the job and finishing up the last bit of framing, door casing, and odds and ends that Contractor #1 was supposed […]
Mar
10
When Flip That House Turns into Cops
March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Longer update tomorrow, when I’m at the day job and have time for such stuff. Right now I’m busy trying to untangle the mess that my former general contractor left, including fun stuff like, oh, I don’t know, not bothering to get any of his framing work inspected (despite repeated assurances that he had) and […]
Mar
4
LOL Ben Bernanke
March 4, 2008 | 3 Comments
I try to cut folks like Ben some slack, as they’re trying to steer a huge, lumbering ship that takes years to nudge the wheel even a few degrees to one side or the other, and are often hamstrung by policy decisions made many years earlier by predecessors that they had no control over. But […]