Saturday, 13 February 2010

House progress

I had intended to begin documenting the progress on the house months ago but it has seemed sufficiently slow that there seemed little point. Now after months of permits, adjusting plans to approximate the budget, and waiting, things are moving forward. Friends are asking so I've gotten to work.

The house is a Royal Barry Wills Cape build in 1947. We are renovating according to plans produced by Tim Cronin architect. As contractor we chose Andrzej Bolalek.

The latest development has been the putting the windows into the second floor (pictures).

Posted by james at 6:36 PM in House rennovation

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Sunday, 23 August 2009

The house building process

After hitting our first house renovation delay due to the fact that the existing foundation is three inches too close the the neighbor, I went hunting for a house renovation dependency or Gantt chart... nothing that would have helped me save the time lost.

Here is what I have learned thus far: