I noticed a leak in the laundry area, inside the wall (the new carpet was wet at the bottom of the wall). I didn’t want
Month: July 2004

While the electricians are busy with the rough wiring I continue the demolition inside the house. After the kitchen I have now finished demolishing the

I have hired a crew of electricians to do the rough wiring while the roof is exposed as well as to replace the main panel

The electricians are working fast laying new wires on the roof and installing a new electrical panel with additional circuits. As luck would have it,

It’s ironic that in Silicon Valley, a couple of miles away from companies designing the most advanced electronic components in the world we find houses

The roofing contractors finished removing all the foam, tar and gravel from the roof, clearing the way for the electricians to start the rough wiring

I hate to put some limits to your creativity, but bathroom remodeling is subjects to some hard constraints. At the beginning we had all these

As the roof has to be replaced I started investigating about my options. The best source of information for this is, once again, the Eichler

Major items listed in the “section one” sales papers: some termite damage, mostly in some roof eaves (note: thankfully very limited!) fungus damage, mostly inside,

The house has been tented and now looks more like a wigwam than some mid-century modern house! It’s about to go through a whole-structure fumigation

… time to get into some demolition action! I will start by tearing off the kitchen this week. Just went to Home Depot to pick