PlasterQuest Posts

August 23, 2011 / / basement entrance project

The time had come. For about a year I fought with a medieval style bar-and-plank lock for a door that didnt fit, and a second door (which also didn’t fit) that could only be opened by jumping, grabbing a rafter, and swinging back to kick open, all Batman like. While…

Read the PostThe Basement Entrance Project Part.1 The Assessination

June 12, 2011 / / painting

We bought the place in August, 2010, moved in sometime in November and had been using the three-season porch as a pit to chuck all those weird whatcha-ma-call-its, we-might-need-thats and about $35 in empty beer bottles since day numero-uno.  Yeppers… as you can imagine it was pretty dingy out there. …

Read the PostThe Power of Valspar: Part Three

June 11, 2011 / / kitchen project

So in our winter absence from the site (we were pretty busy), I’m looking back here and seeing that when last we left, the kitchen was still a disaster. Since that last drywall post we’ve installed the cabinets, done the back-splash, gotten the counter top, painted the walls, trimmed the…

Read the PostKitchen Followup

May 11, 2011 / / The Stronghold

God I can’t get enough of this system. So after a few heavy spring rainfalls, we realized that we needed to do something serious with the pump. It was kicking water out, sure, but the pipe wasn’t long enough, and all that water came right back in. One big perpetual…

Read the PostSumps part three

May 8, 2011 / / The Stronghold

Two weeks into the project and we finally started measuring the post locations for the front and sides where we planned on putting the spruce dogear.  Keep a few things in mind when you’re gleefully running around the yard dreaming of the landscaping possibilities though or you might end up…

Read the PostHow to Install a Fence – 185 ft of Wooden Dogear