Oh you transom devil
Posted by K Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:57:00 GMT
Last weekend we took to the transoms with Peel Away and some scrapers. Pictures over here.
a barrel of this: house
House photos
Posted by Matthew Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:54:00 GMT
I posted some “after” pictures taken today. The house is starting to shape up though as you can see from the images we have plenty of unpacking to do. K did an excellent job of creating a make-shift kitchen and we stocked the fridge yesterday. I learned today that scraping two layers of paint off of both sides of a window pane is quite tedious and tiring. Time to get a heat gun.
We had some heart breaking news on Thursday that I won’t go into here. It made the house go from albatross to salvation. At least we have a massive project to keep our hands and minds occupied. At some point I’ll stop and deal with this devastating news but for now I’ll keep scraping away at paint.
Welcome to DC
Posted by K Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:46:00 GMT
After a very stressful last week wherein the movers (Movex: avoid them since they are brokers, not movers, and just as problematic as that might entail and everything you might read at the movingscam.com forums could indeed happen to you) told us they didn’t have a truck for us on the day they promised and there was scrambling and rescheduling and then the truck got dropped off the morning we were supposed to get it, anyway. We got the truck loaded and even though I don’t actually know where it is or have any tracking or anything, we are “promised” by Movex that it will show up here on July 7. I am not sure how much I believe that promise, but in the meantime I sit here in our friends’ house listening to the endless and annoying fireworks the people outside are setting off. And watching bad movies. I finally got more than 4 hours of sleep last night and am coming around to east coast time a little bit.
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