The next person to tell me that “It’s easy, you should be able to do that” in regards to my home renovations might end up with a black eye and a bloody nose.
Our house renovations are not going well. We are approaching our second Christmas where we are still not able to live on the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Renovation Frustrations'
Renovation Advice - “It’s Easy, You Can Do That”
December 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments
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A Canadian Moose Blocked my Wireless
July 18th, 2007 · No Comments
I swapped around the space on my desk earlier today and tonight Tamara was unable to connect to wireless from her laptop in our bedroom. I tried the normal stuff to get it working, but didn’t have any luck getting it to reconnect.
I thought that maybe our new cordless phone was interfering with the wireless [...]
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Builder Calls it Quits
November 6th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I had previously written about our builderhaving his previous off-sider quit on him while working on our house. He had picked up a new apprentice and things seemed to be going well, until last week when he had to let his apprentice go.
With this latest apprentice quitting he has come to us and told us [...]
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Worker Quits
September 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments
This morning Tamara received a phone call that our trade contractor’s “off sider” has quit. His off sider was his second man in all of his construction work. This basically means that now all of our plans are pretty much on hold until he can find either another “off sider” or an apprentice to work [...]
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