Category: yard project

May 7, 2011 / / The Stronghold

Let’s look back to early 2010: TheJessle and Chonathan were hopelessly feeling out the real estate market. We pined for a place that was had both easy access to the city and a large enough back yard to fence in and have enough space for all sorts of outdoor mayhem.…

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March 2, 2011 / / The Stronghold

so the outside of the pump was kind of hurting too, unsurprisingly enough. not only was the pipe broken and dumping right back into the house, the external portion of it pretty much dropped the water right back into the concrete. my mom, ever resourceful, built a little trench drain…

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September 10, 2010 / / The Stronghold

Being first time home owners and naive first time home remodelers there are more then a few things we have come across as being worth sharing with the uninitiated.  It is our hope here at PlasterQuest to share at least a few of these gems along the way.  The first…

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September 5, 2010 / / The Stronghold
September 3, 2010 / / The Stronghold

When you spend an entire weekend pulling up weeds, trimming back hedges and pressure washing your new house you accomplish two things.  The first is relatively obvious, the second is a little less so but has large payout of “good neighbor” points. To the first, the outside of the house…

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