yeah yeah
i know. i'm a terrible blogger. wanna fight about it? i can try to claim the holidays, being sick, being busy ... but frankly i've just been too lazy to blog. blogging hasn't hit priority level. but now that other things are done and it's either blog, study for my P.E., or do absolutely nothing ... i guess posting something isn't a bad idea. and i'm feeling a bit peckish after watching Purdue lose in OT, so this'll help occupy my riled up brain cells for a bit.so anywho, the house is done! let's do a little time lapse ... except that you'll have do the lapsing mentally because i can't do it for you. here's what we had about 3.5 years ago:
nice. so we did some landscaping and stuff, and by last summer we had this:
getting better. still a bit Amish with all the white. so, now we're looking more like this -- in 3 flavors:
in the first one the gutters weren't quite done, but you get the idea. i think its interesting how different the colors look i various light and snow levels. oh, and we got a foot of snow the other day. that was neat, except for trying to drive through some unplowed streets with my snow pusher ... low ground clearance sucks in deep snow.
so the outside is done. they had some issues trying to get the edges of sloped roof at the back terminate correctly (it wasn't done right before) so i think we're just going to put a new roof on and get all the edges detailed correctly. we did get some leaks from time to time in the past and a poor gutter detail resulted in the gutterboard rotting away ... so some work was probably due. it's small too, so the cost isn't much -- just unplanned.
the downstairs bathroom isn't much different from before unfortunately. i finished framing the shower walls and got an exhaust fan installed and hooked up (and it works) ... but that's about it. lazy lazy Chris. about halfway thru framing for the shower i noticed that my level wasn't reading the same on both sides. the problem was, i didn't know which side was right ... or which side i was normally using. that my friends (ha, John Mccain) is a problem. so i got a new level. apparently NEITHER side of the old level was quite right, go figure. everything was surprisingly pretty close. i must have generally been using the most right side. luckyduck.
the new wall insulation is working well. by my calculations we're using about 20% less gas than when we moved in and about 14% less than last winter (the other improvements are from the attic insulation and other misc. weatherproofing/insulating we've done). not as big of gain as i may have hoped, but it's something. there was more wall insulation than i originally expected, so that dampened some of the potential savings. and, we still have very drafty windows (only a few of them wrapped right now) so have some more economizing to do.
since last post in brief -----
Christmas: short, but nice (got to see my aunt and uncle from KS)
being sick: sucks
movie recommendations: Slumdog Millionaire, Man on Wire, Gran Torino
Over the Rhine's 2 night Christmas show: excellent
cheap stuff found at Ikea: sweet
ultimate grocery store: Jungle Jim's
visits from Ben and Bradys/Rajcics and visiting Sarah & Jeremiah (and Nathaniel): fun
stimulus recommendation: no
snow driving ability of Indy-area residents: pathetic
over: and out
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 9:47 PM
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