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House Upgrade 2008 Part IV: a roof over our heads

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:October 4, 2008
Post category:Life
Post comments:4 Comments

The deck construction is almost finished. Almost… a slippery word, that can often mean “never”. Since the last posting on this topic, here is what has been completed:

roof framing assembly (structural steel trusses) constructed
aluminum framing and acrylite / polycarbonate roofing panels installed
electrical roughed in
exposed steel clad in cedar
deck stairs constructed
second “quick connect” natural gas fitting installed

It looks pretty good, actually, and is “done enough” that the things remaining feel rather minor. The roof has turned out really nicely: Solariumsplus did the work, and I’m really pleased with what Pete, Curtis and Randy put together for us. Some pictures…

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House upgrade 2008 Part III- the deck cometh

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:August 3, 2008
Post category:Life
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It took a bit longer than planned due to some delays with the arrival of the composite decking material, but now our deck surface is complete!

Here is what the framing looked like:

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House upgrade 2008 Part II- the spa arrives

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:July 15, 2008
Post category:Life
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Our deck and spa replacement project has sort of been in “standby” mode since my initial post. Since then, the concrete spa pad and deck supports were added, but not much else could be done until the spa itself arrived. That day was today.

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Vacation starts…

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:June 21, 2008
Post category:Life
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My vacation started on Friday. Well, technically, the days off work start on Monday, but on Friday I realized I’d already worked 50 hours for the week by about noon, and I was feeling beat… so I set up my out-of-office email auto-responder agent, changed my answering machine message, and shut down my work laptop at around 2:00 PM. I’ve had some stress at work the past couple of weeks, mostly good stress, but tiring nonetheless.

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UPDATED: House upgrade 2008: the deck and spa

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:June 8, 2008
Post category:Life
Post comments:7 Comments

I turned in my beer bottles and decided to put the windfall towards a new deck. Step #1 is: destroy the old deck.

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