Knowing that its been several years since I last wrote Life in the 'burbs for the NHAD newsletter I should catch everyone up on what has happened in this time frame. When I last wrote, I think we had just finished remodeling our basement, which came out quite nice, including the interestingly designed middle support beam in the garage ceiling. Not that it is supporting the ceiling, it supports the boat frames during Mark's boat building adventures, no garage should be without one of these.
A few years following the basement remodel, summer 2005 to be exact, we decided to build an addition onto the house and a stand alone garage at the same time. For this we hired several contractors mostly folks that Mark was familiar with from his work as a building inspector. The first contractor dug the foundations for the addition and garage during a very rainy June, not much different than this year. When the foundation contractors showed up, they actually had to pump water out parts of the excavation holes to place the forms and then again before pouring the concrete. I documented all of this with a huge number of photos that I will have to find an post in this blog too.
That said, the thing to remember here is 'very wet and rainy'... We hired a contractor to do the main part of the addition to the house since involved removing part of the roof and installing a carry beam to support the new roof over the addition connecting the two sections of the building.
Mark decided that we could build the garage ourselves with the help of a few good friends.
The thing to remember here is... it was a rainy wet Spring....
to be continued...
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