So our mortgage company is holding the insurance money for renovating our house. They cut a check months ago when our contractor first submitted a…
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So our mortgage company is holding the insurance money for renovating our house. They cut a check months ago when our contractor first submitted a…
Today’s Times-Picayune carries the ninth story about our renovation.
I spent today catching up, running errands that fell between the cracks over the last two days. It’s amazing how many things we’re juggling, and…
The eighth article about our renovation appeared in the Times-Picayune this morning.
The story about our renovation in today’s Times-Picayune is actually the seventh in a series Stephanie Bruno has been writing about us. I haven’t posted…
Mark the Carpenter is back at work on our house today, after a hiatus of almost two months. Sadly, his helper Tony is not returning…
A follow-up article in today’s Inside Out in the Times-Pic:
RENOVATORS FIND MADNESS DESPITE METHOD
NOTE: Bart Everson and Christy Paxson find that tough decisions are unavoidable as they repair the basement of their North Salcedo Street bungalow.
There’s an article about us in today’s Inside Out, the Times-Picayune’s Saturday home & garden magazine. Ironically enough, I still can’t get the paper delivered to our home.
REBUILDING IN MID-CITY IS STOP AND GO
Saturday, April 08, 2006
By Stephanie Bruno
Contributing writerNOTE: Meet Bart Everson and Christy Paxson, who live on North Salcedo Street just off Canal Street. Though they moved back into the upstairs of their house in November, it was another month before they had power, and several more before work began on repairing the flood damage downstairs. We will drop in on them from time to time to check on their progress.
As abruptly as it began, work on our house is stopping for a while. Mark and Tony, the carpenters, will be working on one of…
The carpenters are going great guns on our house. The termite damage and the rot are more extensive than I realized, so they’re essentially replacing…
I was happy that work had begun on our house at long last. But I was also anxious and unsettled for the last couple days.…
Helpful rebuilding hint: If you have any possessions you’d like to keep, remove them from the area before the demolition crew goes to work. Yeah,…
Ho hum, not much new to report… except that work is finally beginning on our house! I had just about given up on ever hearing…
I had a roofer lined up to fix the hole(s) in our roof, but after waiting for six weeks or so, I was starting to…
Yesterday, after a wait of two weeks, our electrical work passed the city inspection. It’s up to code, and we’re ready to take power. (Even…
The electricians started work on our house today. Also, the plumber got the city inspector to come by and certify us for getting our gas…
I saw our Cuban neighbor, Jose, as we drove to our house this morning. Xy dropped me off and hurried on to a job screening…
As I’ve done more demolition on the lower floor of our home, I’ve discovered the termite damage is a bit more extensive than I’d thought.…
My dear friend Mike Kaplan came by our house this afternoon to assess the electrical situation. You see, Mike is a licensed electrician, and right…
Bit of a breakthrough today. I finished cleaning the nasty, flood-damaged stuff out of our utility room. (Litter box full of month-old floodwater — yuck!)…