Requisite Danger

Shall I start a list? (yes, I can vent here as it's my blog!)

1) The basement flooded – TWICE!

2) We failed the electrical inspection

3) The half-bath with TWO outlets MUST have it's own dedicated 20 amp circuit (a huge thanks to all the gals out there with hairdryers and curling irons!)

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I have been running electrical wires the past few weekends… trying to get the basement in shape for use this Christmas. I believe I'm on track to do so… 

Last weekend, we cleaned out the basement – removing all the construction debris and mopping the backrooms (thanks Em!!). The result was amazing – [...]

I just realized that I never posted pictures of newly installed basement windows oops…

To make up for it, I have posted the completed windows along with the beninging pics.

North facing window in the "new" bedroom

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South facing window in the main game [...]

Last Saturday we started wiring the basement – with the help of a great friend.

We got almost half of one cicruit complete when I burned up my drill. I was drilling into the concrete walls of the basement to install wire conducts.

The good news is that I was able to [...]

Walking back into the fray, I noticed something very interesting… while the table saw I came home was not the one I had picked out, it was a good one. In fact, the table on the saw was larger – 42”x19” vs 26”x19”. The quality also seemed to be higher then the others [...]

Monday morning – I drive into town with a slight smile on my face. Thou I wish I could of stayed home all weekend, I was on an errand to overcome my dreaded enemy and finally get some work done.

Going first to Home Depot to exchange a window for a larger [...]

All I wanted was a table saw – that’s right, a simple, fairly inexpensive table saw that I could use while working on the basement. As with most things dealing with “The Basement”, it wasn’t that simple…

The journey begins many months ago once I decided to buy a table saw (why? [...]

Poured concrete Sunday completing work on the footers, now all we have to do is install the support posts….

God gave us some window wells – I couldn’t find a store who sold them so I asked a friend at church where one could buy them. He refereed to another friend who [...]

The concrete cutters came today and cut out two windows in our basement. The wall was 6 inches thick on the top and 10 inches on the bottom – with a 6 inch dogleg (see pics below).  We also had them cut out two 2 x 2 holes in the foundation where I’m [...]