ReStore Portland, Maine
Posted on | July 28, 2008 | Comments Off
We have to buy everything new for the house from sinks to molding. Since neither one of us are millionaires we need to find cost effective resources for the renovation. We don’t have the money to just hire an architect and come back in a few months to a gorgeous home. We are excited about doing all the work ourselves. I love the hunting part. You never know what you’ll find.
On Friday, I headed up to my mom’s house in Portland, Maine to check out some local resources for building materials. We checked out the Restore run by Habitat for Humanity first to see what they had. I saw lots of doors, windows, moldings, sinks, and spare wood. A great resources for anyone working on a renovation. Greg and I really want to use as many recycled materials that seem appropriate not only because it is cost effective but it’s just logical to use old buildings supplies for a home. We don’t want to add to the waste in landfills and junkyards. I took a few shots of the store so that you could get idea of what you can get at these store. Get more info about Restores in your area: habitat.org/cd/env/restore.aspx
Leaky Bathroom Roof
Posted on | July 28, 2008 | Comments Off
We got to Marblehead late Thursday night. As we turn down the corner to the house I think both of expected that the house could have burned down. “Someone would have called us, right?” The house was standing to our relief. I ran inside to the second floor bathroom and tried to turn on the overhead light. I pulled the cord once. Nothing. And then a second and third time and I got small sparks. I shouted to Greg to come and check it out. Greg came upstairs and tried and he yelled, “We’ve got sparks!” I screamed back “No shit, I told you that already.” (You can feel the love?)
After a little investigating we realized the light was full of water. Thanks god we didn’t get electrocuted! Seems the floor above the bathroom was filled with water because of leaky roof and the water slowly leaked down into the light. Aah the fun! The image above is our leaky bathroom. The image below is a view from outside the house. The second smaller bump out on the back of the house is where all the bathrooms are. The roof at the top is our demon.
Marblehead Weekend: NOOD 2008
Posted on | July 27, 2008 | Comments Off
We just got back from our second weekend in our new house. We didn’t get a whole lot done on the house but we did have fun relaxing. I was recovering from a week of being sick and greg spent the weekend racing in the NOOD: Marblehead (National Offshore One Design). Check out his video of their awesome start on a Sonar named Crusher from Noroton Yacht Club. They just made it in between another boat and the committee boat for a perfect start. I’ll share more of our projects we have in the works later this week. Night.
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