Since we move in a year ago, we’ve been having trouble with downspout washout. The rain runs through all of our mulch bed and washes out a good deal of it onto our sidewalk. After every rain storm, I’d have to spend a good 30 minutes shoveling mulch and sand back into the flower bed. […]
Back to work on our drip irrigation installation… To see Part 1, click here. So today I got an early start on the front flower beds with the goal of finishing up as much as I could until more drip irrigation hose arrives next week. I’ll leave a small bare batch un-mulched so I can […]
Lots to do this week!! We got 3 cubic yards of black mulch and four flower beds to go! There are a couple of landscaping lessons we’ve learned since we moved into our new house. The first and arguably the most important is the necessity of landscaping fabric on flower beds. Unless you enjoy weeding, they are […]
While looking through our old photos from our first home, I stumbled upon these pictures of our old bathroom before the big renovation. For the record, Lisa would like me to stress that this was MY bathroom and not OUR bathroom since it was rehabbed before we got married and she moved in. The before shots: […]
Now that the shed is done, we’re going to wrap up the flower beds around it by adding mulch. Mulching a flower bed is a fairly quick and easy job, plus it will allow us to get a feel for how much we’ll need for the front of the house, which we haven’t done yet. […]
So we (mostly me) have been thinking about adding an egress to the basement. We had the option of incorporating a basement egress when we spec’d the house out, but we declined it since the cost was significant and we had other priorities. Why add an egress at all? Adding an egress will allow us […]
Now that the outlet has been installed on the side of the house and caulked, we can start our work on the breaker panel. Before I started this portion of the job, I purchased a new 15 amp breaker from the box store. A 15 amp is appropriate and necessary because the wire I used is […]
In this post, we are going to get close to finishing up the last few loose ends of our landscape lighting project. To wrap up this job, we’ll install an outdoor outlet to the side of the house to provide power for our transformer. Bye Bye extension cord. Very first thing: Pull a permit. If your city or township will allow you to […]
So last time we worked on our landscape lighting project, we were able to get the transformer installed and the four flood lights connected. After a brief test with an extension cord, we still have some adjustments to make. It’s always a good idea when doing a project like this to stop and see how […]
