See this pretty new fence? How much do you think it would cost to have a fence like this built? There was probably not a whole lot of profit for the contractor in this lawn and fence install job. And why is that you ask? Because he forgot to do that “Call Before You Dig” thing. […]
Durable Goods
The items we need and rely on to make our lives simpler.
Front Porch; the Final Steps
I am pretty well exhausted after finishing off the front steps to the house so this will be an abbreviated post. Here are the stairs, in place. If you look carefully at them you will see that there is a third stringer in the middle of the stairs. This was a little improvement […]
Front Porch Step Four
Today was a very productive day on the front porch steps replacement project. And even though the scope of the project has expanded we are still (almost) on budget and on schedule. Once the existing steps were removed it was obvious that the opportunity had presented itself to clean-up and clear-out the area under the stairs. I […]
Front Porch Step Three
Today was my favourite kind of construction day; a day to wildly swing a sledge hammer and wield a mean pry-bar. Today was the de-construction day of the construction project. However, let me step back a bit to the time before the de-construction began. When I originally went to Sunbury Cedar I bought two 7′ […]
Front Porch Step Two
Step Two of the front-porch steps rebuild process involved traveling out to Sunbury Cedar on River Road in Delta, BC to get the lumber. There is an interesting observation I have made in this front-porch steps rebuild project so far. Let me back up a minute to explain my observation. I recently bought a little […]
Front Porch; Step One
The first and most important step in any home renovation job is to go a Big Box Retailer and buy as many massive power tools as you can reasonably rationalize. That was exactly what I did this morning. I went to the local Home Depot and bought myself a cordless drill like device. Next up […]
Front Porch Stairs Replacement
I am psychologically and emotionally preparing myself for the job of replacing the stairs that lead to the front-door of our home. Although I have never done a job like this before, I’m thinking, how difficult could this be? Really how hard could it be to build a set of stairs? I was a master at Lego […]
Toronto Hotel View
You know the check-in people at your hotel do not know what a blogger is when you are assigned a room with this view…
Fairmont Empress Gold; the Rooms
Yesterday I wrote a little thing about my lovely experience with the Fairmont Empress Gold Lounge. However, the Lounge experience is only part of the service; guests in the Fairmont Gold also stay in completely renovated and up-dated rooms in the Gold part of the Fairmont Empress. While I love the heritage feel of the […]
Fairmont Empress; the Gold Lounge Experience
Last weekend I had to go to our provincial capital for a few days of business. Because I was going to be working in and around the Legislature, I decided to stay in the iconic Fairmont Empress Hotel. Now, in the nature of disclosure, I have to say that I stayed in the Fairmont Empress […]