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Home Addition - Final Inspection Passed!

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  • Sunday, September 21 2008 @ 02:48 PM UTC
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We passed our final inspection! We are starting to add furniture and decorate the new spaces!

The fun room:





The bathroom:

Home Addition - Construction Update 10 - almost done!

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  • Sunday, August 31 2008 @ 01:56 PM UTC
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Here are a few pictures as we near the end of the project.

Our formerly lush new lawn is not looking very healthy. There is still some green in there (not apparent in the photo) but I went ahead and over-seeded with additional grass seed this weekend.



We had our kitchen patio door replaced as part of this project. We still have to paint most of our new doors:

Home Addition - Construction Update 9

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The project has slowed considerably. We are now at the mercy of the sub-contractors schedules.

However, we passed some more inspections and there definitely is progress since the last update!

We have a new roof on the entire house. We chose a commercial spray-on foamy material due to the very shallow pitch of our roof. The foam adds a significant layer of insulation from the hot Florida sun. The roofers wrapped our house in plastic to keep the spray from getting on the windows. This reminded us of a scene from the movie E.T.



You can see the foam material peeking over the edge of the roofline:

Kite Flying

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  • Sunday, June 22 2008 @ 10:56 PM UTC
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My family flew some kites on a recent vacation to the Outer Banks area of North Carolina.

My kite was a parafoil:



My dad flew a cool Red Baron replica:

Home Addition - Construction Update 8

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  • Thursday, June 05 2008 @ 11:32 PM UTC
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To save money on the addition we decided we would do the painting. We missed the fact that this meant we would have to do most of the caulking! Kristen has been busy doing that and filling the nail and screw holes.





The crew did a really good job at this corner junction between the old house and the addition. All of the trim, old and new, will be painted with a fresh color before we are finished:

Bike Tire Peril

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  • Tuesday, May 27 2008 @ 03:03 PM UTC
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We got our bicycles down out of the garage this weekend and I even rode to work this morning.

I didn't notice until just now the terrible condition of my tires:



These are the original tires, at least 12 years old. The harder outer rubber is peeling off to reveal a much softer rubber interior. With luck, I'll make it home safely tonight.

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