tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62056197450944930662024-02-20T00:07:28.457-08:00La Casa de los RackhamProgression of our home building experienceSkylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-45597093716525973782015-07-18T12:11:00.000-07:002015-07-18T12:11:22.517-07:00July 17th - We got sod.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And not as in the rude UK phrase, sod as in grass. Oh my heavens to betsy. We still had a good amount to do on Friday and the sod was supposed to come late that afternoon. We needed to re-plant our trees. They were too low, which you would think isn't a problem BUT we found out that if they are too low, the water sits on top of the roots and will actually rot your roots. If you plant it just above ground level, the water is able to run down the tree flare so the tree only takes what it needs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Skylar needed to finish some stuff with the valve box. I honestly don't even know what it was. He also dug out the end of our down spouts to pour gravel underneath so that when they drain it doesn't get clogged by the dirt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In addition to that we still needed to till the south side of the yard, and rake and weed everything on that side. By noon, we saw other neighbors getting their sod. And every time a truck came by, we were worried. We weren't ready yet! It must have been national sod day because we had 3 other neighbors laying their sod on Friday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We finished getting the yard all ready and actually had time to sit and relax for a bit before the sod came. No one ever told me how heavy those suckers were. Holy moly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What we started off with on Friday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> After we finished tilling, raking, and weeding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That's what 5,000 square feet of sod looks like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> After we were mostly done laying sod</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our estimation wasn't too bad on how much sod we needed. We had one extra pallet after we had finished laying sod everywhere we had prepped. The next morning, Jon got up at the crack of dawn before me and Skylar, tilled a little farther back in the yard, raked it up, moved the entire extra pallet with the wheel barrel and even cleaned all our scraps up that we left laying around the yard. What a man. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The morning after, once we had cut all the excess, finished laying all the extra sod and cleaned up a bit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> All the rocks from our yard thus far and the sod pallets hanging out in the back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Special thanks for all those who helped. Our neighbors for watching kids, for coming to help lay sod, to our family for coming to help get us ready for our lawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welp. I think for this year we are just about done. Toward the end of the season, we may look to see if any of the other trees we had planned for the back yard are on sale. We need to put mulch around the trees to help them keep moist but other than that, we are done for now! More to come next summer.</span></div>
<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-60124790231250896432015-07-12T18:17:00.001-07:002015-07-12T18:17:56.849-07:00July 11th - 13 hours in the yard. NBD.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No kidding. We were at it from 8am until 9pm. Huge shout out to our wonderful parents, Jon and Debbie. We were able to get so much done yesterday. Because our sod was pushed back, at the end of last week Skylar and I basically did nothing in the yard. So we caught back up and now just have one side of the yard to finish.</span><br />
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<strike style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Putting in the sprinklers (pipes</strike><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><strike> and heads </strike>and sprayer heads)</span></div>
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Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-55080735291121262892015-07-09T15:18:00.000-07:002015-07-09T15:18:15.241-07:00July 9th - Good News and Bad News<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Good news: We are so close to being done! Like so close. We have a limited number of things left on our checklist. </span><br />
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<strike style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Deciding if we need all the trenches we have or need to make a few new ones)</span></strike></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everything was happening for this week. Trees Wednesday, top soil Thursday, sod Friday! But then. Right after we planted our trees a storm with 70 mph winds blew in with tons of rain to boot. Because of that, our sod was soaked. When it's soaked it can't be cut. When it can't be cut, it can't be delivered. And instead of pushing everyone back a day, our delivery date was rescheduled to Wednesday of next week. It's not that big of a time difference, BUT WE WERE SO CLOSE! And we still are. In all honesty, it's a good thing. We have more time to make sure all the ground is prepped really well, get everything set up how we want it and then bring in the sod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also good news: We got our trees! My goodness. I was so excited. And man those suckers are heavy. Now it feels like our yard is taking shape. (Also, of course we get a crazy wind storm right after we plant our baby trees with NO roots in the ground yet. I was so worried for them. But they survived, thankfully!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I should have used a kid for size. These mothers were huge and took me forever to dig out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After changing the date for curbing and sod, twice for the first and once for the second, we now have official dates for all of it! Curbing was done last week, cement work is coming tomorrow, trees are coming sometime either this week or next and sod is coming Friday! (I realize I said we had dates for everything and that I just said <i>sometime either this week or next </i>but whatever. We're ordering trees tonight so we'll find out then.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is no pathway from our driveway to our front door unless you count the sidewalk that runs along the road, which I don't count. So we are having someone come and lay a pathway for us as well as a cement pad in our parking strip from the sidewalk to the mailbox. Pictures to come. (TOMORROW!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But that means that we need to bury the pipes in any areas close to where the cement will be. Along with de-rocking and weeding said areas. That is what we will be doing tonight. So much prep work! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Look at all that pipe. We're ready for sprinklers now!</span></div>
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<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-59995297532588576392015-06-14T09:27:00.000-07:002015-06-14T09:27:09.135-07:00June 13th - Trenches Galore<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People say, oh the worst part is the weeds, or the rocks, or whatever. They were all wrong. The worst part is re-digging trenches. Until it's time to rake rocks then I'm sure I'll be singing a different tune. Luckily, we are so close to being done with those bad boys. 4 more left, two of which need to be completely dug by hand. The others we dug last year but we have to clean them all out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After yesterday I was a little distraught realizing how much there really was left to do and seeing that we might not be finished with everything we can do this year by the end of the month. We want to make sure we do it right so that we don't end up re-digging things or having to dig up grass or plants or whatever. But I think we can still be done. We just need to work on it more often for the next few weeks for that to happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3 of 3 park strips now have sprinklers buried. We just need to attach the sprinkler heads to the funny pipe and we are set. Checklist!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">(Deciding if we need all the trenches we have or need to make a few new ones)</span><br />
<strike style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Putting in the sprinklers (pipes</strike><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> and heads)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Keeping the weeds away</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">De-rocking the yard</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Installing curbing</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Installing trees, plants and bushes</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Granted we still need to do all that for the trenches in the yard but for now, I feel good knowing the strips are done. All this week, we'll be in the front yard and now that I've seen the process of actually putting in the sprinkler pipe, maybe I'll do that while I'm at home as well! (Skylar may have some reservations about that because, let's be honest, I don't entirely know what I'm doing). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This hole is underneath the sidewalk. We had to dig this out to run the main water line to the valve box in the front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Skylar dug this one by hand. What a stud muffin</span></div>
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<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-11137944954271526512015-05-26T16:26:00.001-07:002015-05-26T16:26:29.901-07:00May 26th - Take that Weeds!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alright. It's happened. The bulk of the weeding is finished. Now it's just keeping them AWAY. Let's take a look at our checklist, shall we?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strike>Weeding the yard and parking strips</strike></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">(Deciding if we need all the trenches we have or need to make a few new ones)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Putting in the sprinklers (pipes and heads)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Keeping the weeds away</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">De-rocking the yard</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All the weeds left are in the trenches which will be dug out so who cares about pulling them by hand. Amiright? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today almost felt like when we were back working on the houses. We had a goal, we worked until we were done and it felt like we made a decent amount of progress. Our old supervisor Nathan just happened to be visiting a friend in our neighborhood so he even stopped by!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So here is our checklist as far as I know:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Digging out the trenches we dug last year</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Deciding if we need all the trenches we have or need to make a few new ones)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Putting in the sprinklers (pipes and heads)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Keeping the weeds away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">De-rocking the yard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Installing sod</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Installing trees, plants and bushes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Somewhere in there we also want to dig out the backyard. We'll use some of that dirt to fill in areas that aren't quite high enough for level ground so that needs to come just before installing sod. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Progress. Progress.</span><br />
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<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-34745320054036167822015-05-16T16:00:00.000-07:002015-07-06T17:41:48.202-07:00May 9th - Readying the Yard<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The title is somewhat redundant, since we've been readying the yard for a year now. But really what it's coming down to is getting rid of weeds, rocks and trying to keep those things at bay until we lay (drum roll, please) SOD! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had Jen Klingonsmith from <a href="http://saratogablooms.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Saratoga Blooms</a> come and do a yard consultation for us. She is fantastic. It's more difficult to grow in Saratoga Springs because of the salinity of the secondary water and because the ground itself hasn't been worked like other areas in Utah County. For that reason she has a list of tried and true plants that grow in our area. Not only that but she designs a landscape for your yard that you can implement at your pace. So now we're in the process of getting sod, trees and possibly shrubs if we have funds for that. We're just doing the front right now but hoping to get the back done next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Right now we're trying to finish digging out the backyard how we want, getting all the areas leveled out that we will be finishing up this summer, installing sprinklers and we'll see from there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After tilling one side of the front yard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The back yard that we have left. We burned all the tumbleweeds and it made room for all the new weeds to come in. Never ends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We're doing landscaping. Again. I was just looking at pictures of the yard from last year and wanted to cry because we had it to a certain point, left it and then all our trenches filled back up with dirt and the weeds came back with an angry vengeance. But what is done is done! And all we can do is get to work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our neighbors had a great way of getting rid of weeds: burning them! So we followed suit. We got a burn permit and one of those huge metal barrels and went nuts. I started in the front yard, raking tumbleweeds into piles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Really we got going on all of this because we have a landscaping designer coming by to help us decide what the heck to do. Excited to see what the plan will be and for the upcoming posts! Here we go again!</span></div>
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<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-43486858955475431612015-01-31T13:49:00.000-08:002015-01-31T13:49:39.970-08:00January 31st - Blinds: Making Others Blind to Your Nakedness<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thought we were gone? Well you were wrong! Still things to take care of in our house even if it has been a year since we moved in (almost). Landscaping still didn't get done. I would love to say we even got halfway there but no. Didn't happen. But after the tax return comes in and the weather gets even warmer (for out here in Utah), we'll be out working again trying to get in the sprinklers and sod.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But first! Blinds! Skylar is the best. We saved several hundred dollars by installing the blinds ourselves and by ourselves I mean Skylar. We went through Budget Blinds, had the product installed right to our door, Skylar watched a few youtube tutorials and now we have a home that has an added measure of privacy. So excited!</span><br />
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<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-89894633188732593432014-05-24T15:22:00.000-07:002014-05-24T15:22:42.241-07:00May 24th - Tiller and Trenches<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week we got a trencher to get ready to bury our sprinkler pipes. We'll have to get it again because we weren't quite able to finish before we had to return it. On Saturday Jon and Debbie came to visit and brought down the tiller so we could make quick work of the weeds and just rake them up and dump them in the lot across the street. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also raked a bunch of rocks but we didn't do too much since the trenches will just turn up more rocks. We tried to mostly get the bigs ones and get rid of weeds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Big shout out to our great friend Monte for letting us use his landscaping rakes to get the rocks out of the way, Brandon our neighbor for picking up the trencher for us through a source that we were able to use free of charge, and Jon and Debbie for helping out and bringing down the tiller.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That my friends is a tiller. What a beautiful piece of modern machinery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Remember the <a href="http://lacasadelosrackham.blogspot.com/2014/05/may-17th-sprinkler-system-meeting.html" target="_blank">area of yard</a> that Brillante was helping with? Yeah I dug up all the weeds (before we had the tiller) and we raked them all up today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first section we worked on before it was tilled. Almost done</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The mountains may be beautiful but they create issues as far as landscaping goes</span></div>
Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-4056796961108025702014-05-20T20:31:00.000-07:002014-05-20T20:31:08.930-07:00May 17th - Sprinkler System Meeting<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We met with Nathan on Saturday and he explained to us how the sprinkler system is set-up, installed, trouble-shooted, yada yada yada. And it sounded about like that to me. I've decided I'm a visual person so explaining things verbally is wasted on me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We did find out that we won't need to de-rock the yard and median (I'm calling it that for lack of a better name) until after we have trenched for the sprinklers. Also, I found out that installing a sprinkler system takes time, hard work, brains and I really hope I don't some how manage to screw it up. Let's be honest here though, Skylar is going to do all the thinking and I'll throw rocks into the empty lot across the street so I think we will be okay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We're still deweeding for now though. Hopefully next Saturday, we will be far enough along that we can rent a trencher and go to town. Then put in the sprinklers, de-rock, bury everything and go from there. We will see my friends. We will see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Come stay at our house and we'll put you to work! Only part of the reason why we love the Selfs: good friends do each others' yard work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was after a few hours of work on the area Brillante was just at. We're getting there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first side: how much we have left</span></div>
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<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-4924664345453207842014-05-20T20:10:00.000-07:002014-05-20T20:13:19.436-07:00May 10th - Yard work<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know all those people who say they love yard work? They can't possibly be talking about this kind of yard work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As with most things that we have done with the house, I have no idea what is actually going on (until after I've done it a few times). I was under the impression that if we got into the house before we had to do landscaping, then we could do it at our leisure. I was, sadly, mistaken. When we rolled our construction loan over to a normal mortgage loan, we signed a contract saying that we would have the landscaping done on June 1st. Say what?! Normally it takes about 2 months Nathan told us and we have, now, about 2 weeks. HA! But we will get what we can done in that amount of time. Apparently the penalty is that if we don't have it finished by then, USDA reserves the right to hire an outside company to do the landscaping with our money. (I think anyway. That could be slightly off).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We were blessed with a rock garden for a front yard. What we need to do is: dig up all the weeds, trench for the sprinkler system, install the sprinkler system, test it, bury all the pipes, de-rock the rock garden, lay sod and hope at that point everything works so that all the grass doesn't die.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yard work. This was not what I had in mind.</span></span><br />
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Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-66382291166323385552014-04-21T12:52:00.000-07:002014-04-21T12:52:08.966-07:00April 19th - Moving Day<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We received a lot of flack from our neighbors in the group about having built a house and not moving in as soon as we could, <i>When are you guys moving in? Some time this year? Didn't you build this house? Don't you want it?</i> All in good fun of course. But since I was still in class we waited until that was all finished up so we didn't have to commute and I wouldn't have to stress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But because of that when moving day came around, we weren't as packed as I would have liked. The night before Skylar and I rented a van and took over as much as we could: our dresser, a ton of storage stuff (decorations, baby/boy clothes) movies, books, bookshelf, anything we could do with out for the night and that would fit in the van. We packed it tight! And then next day we still had to make 3 trips out to the house to get everything. We should have just rented a big ole Uhaul. But it worked out. While the boys were packing up the cars and trailer that Skylar's grandpa brought down, I was able to just keep packing stuff up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can NOT believe how much stuff we had in our apartment. We ran out of boxes and we had even asked JC and Missy for the ones they were done with from them moving and I still had to ask my mom to run over to the store to see if they had extra boxes. It worked out but it was a little nuts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well that's it. We'll need to make an after shot to go along side the before but it was an incredible experience. We learned so much and made good friends and now we're in our home. The past 10 months flew by even though at the time it seemed as though it would never end. But it's over and we're reaping the benefits. Thanks to everyone who helped: self-help, our awesome neighbors, my wonderful mom for babysitting all the time, it was definitely a group effort. Here's to our home!</span></div>
Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-13281055915380044572014-04-21T12:19:00.000-07:002014-04-21T12:19:37.261-07:00April 3rd - Open House, project completion<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We did it. We did it, we did it, we did it. It felt like we would never finish the houses, that we would never really move in but then one day, we were done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The open house was great. A lot of our neighbors came out to meet us and check out the houses so it seems like a really friendly neighborhood with TONS of kids. Which is great for us. There are plenty of families having kids and plenty of families with kids already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sponsors came out that work with Self Help all the time and told some great stories about the benefits of the program: people starting their own stucco companies afterward and things like that. Other future participants came and looked at the houses and I remember being there! I remember being so excited and thinking, dang, they made this? Well the answer is yes. Dang yes, we made this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Adam's wife Jen and their daughter, Michelle and Brandon (behind), our supervisor Nathan, JC and his two sons, Jim (behind, who is in another group but came out and helped us in the beginning), Skylar and Cohen, me and Jonas, city official, and Jane and her daughter</span></div>
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Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-78766221349895926392014-03-23T20:09:00.000-07:002014-03-23T20:09:51.144-07:00March 22nd - Cleaning Windows<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These posts are getting boring! Why? Because there is so little left to do (YES YES YES!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Saturday, we installed deadbolt strike plates at the houses. We have one house left to finish tomorrow. We would have done it on Saturday but we also painted exterior doors so they were off their hinges and we couldn't. They weren't dry in time before we left so we will be doing that tomorrow. What else are we doing tomorrow? I'm so glad you asked. Let me tell you:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Strike plates at Adam's</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Caulking any places that cracked in the finish work</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Painting baseboards that were installed after flooring was put in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Painting wall touch-ups</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Painting trim on the outside of the house</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Staining the steps in the garage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vacuum the carpets, clean the cabinets out, mirrors, sinks and tubs, mop the kitchen floor, empty the cold storage, basement and garage</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And then...WE'RE 100% <u style="font-weight: bold;">DONE!</u> On Thursday we have our final walk through inspection. This past week we had our final inspection with the city which we passed. That one, everything has to be up to code so there are little things that can be ignored as long as everything else meets code. For the walk through on Thursday, everything has to be done. All the painting, caulking, installation of hardware, cleaning, all of it. It's more cosmetic because it's Self-Help (our supervisor's supervisor) that does the inspection. They are looking to make sure that everything looks good for the sponsors and city officials that come to the open house on the 3rd. So everything has to be done. Done done. Not just mostly done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As part of that, Skylar climbed up into the attic, cleaned and put up screen material behind the windows. You don't want to be able to see that it's just an empty space up there and not a real room. Just looks kinda silly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is the before (but I have no after...) You can see the boards in the back that make the build up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like I said. No after shot. Just the cleaning. But trust me, with the screen material, it was much better</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also started some touch up things, mostly puttying holes and caulking cracks. We're hoping tomorrow we'll finish all of our touch ups and have the last 2 days to clean. If we're really lucky, we'll just finish it up tomorrow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And hardware and grills. I know you're dying to ask so I will answer it now: We made it. We made the deadline to not have to do landscaping. Our official move in date is April 3rd (after the Open House) and now we're just finishing up the little things. We'll be able to finish landscaping after we have moved in. As of today, this is our count of the big construction type things:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Handrails: 5 out of 5 (3 need to be installed but all are stained)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rock: 5 out of 5 (including grout!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Painting: 5 out of 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Plumbing: 5 out of 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cabinets: 5 out of 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today Skylar finished our deck, Brandon stained the handrail, I installed the hardware on the closets, Skylar and I put up our house numbers, and the subs put in all the grills (or vents). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Skylar asked me the other day if I felt like the project was worth it and I honestly think so. It's amazing to see how much we've learned, how much you can do (with the right tools) and how much money (hopefully) that we have saved. It seems a lot easier now to have to finish our basement and even do landscaping. He of course had no doubts as to whether or not it was worth it. I asked him the same question today and he replied, "Oh definitely!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were in the process of putting up our house numbers. We're not crazy about the style so that is one thing we'll change after we get in the house</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The year little Zachy was born! (Skylar's younger brother)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is left? Paint touch up, just finishing things here and there. We still need to paint the exterior doors on the outside of the house. Past that, updates will be far and few between. Exciting stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It really does feel like at this point, we will be able to finish all the big stuff by March 20th. Although a good friend of ours, Adam, was concerned today that he wouldn't finish the grout for the rock in time, we have confidence that he can do it. And if he can't, we'll finish up our stuff, make Nathan train us on grout and help him finish! It's not that we don't want to do landscaping, we just want to be able to be moved in AND working on landscaping. Not still commuting from Provo and being pressed to finish it within a certain amount of time. Here's is the current count:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Decks: 3.5 out of 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cabinets: 4.5 out of 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our carpets are in this week! It's amazing to see how much now it's really looking like a house. We were able to hang all the doors today since the carpets were all in. Not much left at this point...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This past week Skylar and I were working on the finish work at Adam's house and our supervisor Nathan let us know about something we've all been dying to know about. He found out from his boss the EXACT date we have to be finished with the MAJOR work in order to not have to do landscaping: March 20th. If we can finish all the "construction" type things then we will have the open house April 3rd and can move in at 5:01 that day (after it's over at 5:00). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is the major stuff you ask? Decks, stairs, handrails, rock, painting, plumbing and cabinets. All of the touch up things we will take care of between the finish date and the open house. Here's where we stand on all the major construction things:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And by the end of this week, the last four categories should be complete. Decks, stairs and plumbing are all jobs Skylar does, so I expect that this week and for the remaining four-ish weeks he will be spending many hours at the house trying to finish all of those things before/by March 20th. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So. There is still lots to be done but it is VERY doable that we can be done by March 20th. Very. Even though we'll be finished by then, we probably won't move in until the middle of April. I'll still be in classes and it will give us time to collect things we still need before we leave our apartment and finish other things at the house that aren't a part of the program (painting the garage, building extra shelves, etc.).</span></div>
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Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-565695253706670622014-02-08T21:28:00.000-08:002014-02-08T21:28:19.374-08:00February 8th - Crown molding and rock progress<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We got some good news today. Let me start this story with some backstory: When we started building in June, we didn't have landscaping in our list of tasks when calculating how long it would take us to build the homes. Reason being, our goal was to finish January/February. Right now we're looking at the end of March, beginning of April. However, if we finish that late in the season the city may turn on the water for sprinklers and then by contractual agreement we have to do landscaping for the homes. That means approximately 2 more months before we can move in. Not that I need to say this but obviously we don't want that to happen. These next few weeks are crunch time. We're trying as hard as we can to finish the homes by the middle, and hopefully not the end, of March so that we can move in before we have to do landscaping. Right now, we've been told by the Fire Marshal that April 15th is usually the date to turn on the water for Saratoga Springs. If we finish by mid-March, we should be good. If not...hello June! Sayonara March. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Adam and JC did a LOT of work on our stone this week. In total they are about halfway done. Like I said, difficult rock to place correctly. But by next Saturday we're hoping we'll be done with our house and moving on to the LAST house! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know what you're thinking, We've already seen your uppers! Well look again, there's crowning molding on the top now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Again, what's next? Finishing rock, finishing finish plumbing, our deck outside, carpet, paint touch up...lots of little things to come!</span></div>
Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-9652135563971768432014-02-01T17:07:00.000-08:002014-02-01T17:07:31.050-08:00February 1st - Finish plumbing almost finished, rock started<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are a few things I wish they had told us at all of our "construction meetings" when we first started the Self-Help program. One of which would be how long different things would take depending on what materials you chose. For example, there were many different styles of rock available to choose from and we happened to choose a style that takes exceptionally longer than other varieties. Why couldn't they tell us that? We had the power to speed up the process and we didn't even know it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With that said, I am still loving the style of our rock so far. It's surprising how much the rock can really change the over all look of the house. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do you know what else really changes the look of a house? Finish plumbing! Ie: sinks, toilets, dishwashers, etc. (I think flooring will have even more of that type of an effect but for now, it's plumbing).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, if you were to drive by our home you might be concerned by this makeshift tent and think, Oh no! Someone is squatting at the Rackham's house! But never fear. It is a necessary tool for rock. The mortar that adheres the rock to the house has to bond at a certain temperature (something above 45ยบ) otherwise the mortar will freeze, the rock will fall off, Adam will be upset about having to do the whole thing over again and there will be many tears shed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since it's the middle of the winter, JC built this incredibly efficient tent, where they warm the part of the house they are working are with a propane heater and trap the warm air in the tent. After they have finished working on that part of the house, they have to keep it warm for at least 45 minutes, so the mortar doesn't freeze while drying/bonding/adhering/whatever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Goal: By next week, the rock will be finished so I hope to have a picture of the entire exterior.</span></div>
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<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-58872848950258482692014-01-29T20:35:00.000-08:002014-01-29T20:35:22.787-08:00January 28th - Countertops and Light Fixtures<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two jobs that we do not do are installing countertops and installing light fixtures. I'm not sure what the process is for installing countertops. I know that once the cabinets are installed, the contractors come and measure each one to make sure that the countertop will fit like a glove. They install the countertop and then caulk around the walls so that it will be secure. That much I know. And wham-o! You have a beautiful countertop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can I just add that choosing a countertop pattern was so hard?! Some of the home furnishing decisions we had to make were really difficult because the samples that they show you are a tiny 1"x 1" swatch. How am I supposed to know what that pattern will look like when it's 4' long? Other choices that were definitely difficult: color of interior paint (again, tiny swatch and they all looked the same), rock for the exterior of the home (we'll sample that shortly), and colors for the exterior stucco and trim. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We do not install any light fixtures simply because the wiring could get tricky. However, I will say that in our apartment, Skylar changed out the light fixture in our bathroom like a pro. Never had a problem with it. This was about 4 years ago but it only evidences that this program is right up his alley. In any case most of the fixtures are in which makes working in the houses at night so much easier!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't love the dome in the kitchen. Right next to it is the chandelier type fixture in the dining room. After we move in we may need to adjust that. I don't love </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the two contrasting styles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh! Here are the "uppers". All of our cabinets are in! The fridge goes on the left, stove and microwave on the right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What comes next? I'm not sure actually. Touch ups on the paint. Installing all the finish plumbing. Now we're at the point where it's all the little things on the inside that need to be done. And the rock on the outside of the house. Starting Saturday...(pictures to come!)</span></div>
<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-3954001205466507532014-01-19T20:39:00.001-08:002014-01-19T20:39:38.167-08:00January 18th - Cabinets Installed (Just the base cabinets)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The day after the floors were done, the cabinets needed to be installed because this week, contractors are coming to install the countertops. To clarify: we do not install any of the flooring. All of that is contracted out. We DO install the cabinets (the base cabinets, those on the floor and the uppers, those hanging on the walls). We do not install the countertops. So obviously, we needed to get the base cabinets installed for the countertops. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In addition to having countertops this week, we should also be getting all of our outlets and light fixtures set up this week. Exciting! Having light in the houses makes working at night SO much easier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Should you be interested in seeing what the other homes look like, there is a <a href="http://shhgroup39.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Group Blog</a> that our supervisor manages for Self-Help Homes. It's more or less up to date, but it's fun to see the progress and design of the other homes as well. There are pictures of the other group families and a slide show of the each home's progress. Several cameos from the Rackhams will be found. If you see two men on the roof, you can bet your bottom dollar that it's Adam and Skylar. Also, if you look closely, there is a great picture of me stuffing my face at our potluck at around 8-9 months pregnant. </span><br />
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<br />Skylarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06842673365793345045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205619745094493066.post-11789922223481320852014-01-19T20:23:00.001-08:002014-01-19T20:23:04.532-08:00January 17th - Hardwood, Tile and Linoleum Installed! (Carpet to come...soon?)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is exciting. Really exciting. The house is really starting to look like a house now, you know what I mean? Somewhere people would live and laugh and love...Not just an unfinished project that seems like it may never end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were 2 options for flooring with the houses. You could choose to have a nicer grade carpet and linoleum in your kitchen, entry, laundry room, and bathrooms. OR you could get tile in your entry, hardwood in your kitchen, linoleum in the bathrooms and a lower grade carpet everywhere else. We went with the second option. When we chose, I hadn't really thought about it other than I wanted tile and hardwood but it turns out for us it's a better option. At first you may think, well if you want to rip up your floor, at least you would have nice carpet and only need to replace the linoleum. True, but in our case since we have a bigger kitchen/dining area, it worked out to go with the cheaper carpet and have that area with hardwood. AND if we do ever rip out our carpet we won't replace it with carpet, but probably hardwood. AND (double "and") with two boys running around why would I want nice carpet (to ruin) anyway? C'mon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just for fun, here's a sneaky-peek at the cabinets! Not yet installed. (Oh really, I thought you would leave them in a big pile in the middle of the living room...)</span><br />
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